(from the article `diplomacy`) ...for supervising the execution of policy may lie with the head of state or government, a cabinet or a nominally nongovernmental collective ... Once trained, career diplomats serve their foreign ministry abroad or staff it at home. Foreign ministries are similarly organized. They are led by ... [2 rela...
[n] - a government minister for foreign relations
(in countries other than the U.S.) a cabinet minister who conducts and supervises foreign and diplomatic relations with other states. Also called,Cf. secretary of state (def. 1).