How to Use foreign minister in a Sentence

foreign minister

noun
  • All of the foreign ministers seemed to have attended the same grande école in Paris.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Russia is a member of the G20, and its foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, was present for the summit.
    USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The Israeli foreign minister said Gaza will be reduced in size after the war.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Poland, a vocal ally of Kyiv, condemned the pope's remarks.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 11 Mar. 2024
  • This from the foreign minister again according to al Jazeera.
    ABC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • That agreement was signed by Mr. Kishida, who was foreign minister at the time.
    Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
  • One was shared by Israel's foreign minister, claiming that the U.N. halved the number.
    Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 16 May 2024
  • China’s previous foreign minister, Wang Yi, need some 17 years to make the same leap.
    Time, 26 July 2023
  • Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry last week called for Israel to open them.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The German foreign minister has signaled that Berlin won’t stand in Warsaw’s way.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Benzion once remarked that his son might make a fine foreign minister.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Qin’s seven-month stint in the role is the shortest of any foreign minister since the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949.
    Larissa Gao, NBC News, 25 July 2023
  • What’s more, says the foreign minister, people have rights simply by virtue of being human — rights from birth.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 June 2022
  • The mood has dimmed in Denmark, and Nyborg—now 53 and the country’s foreign minister—is more ruthless and driven than ever.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 2 June 2022
  • Blinken stepped briefly onto Ukrainian soil in March to meet with the country's foreign minister during a visit to Poland.
    David Keyton, ajc, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Wang, the outgoing foreign minister, was named to the Politburo in October.
    Russell Flannery, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
  • He will be sworn in on Monday before heading to Tokyo with his foreign minister, Penny Wong.
    Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 22 May 2022
  • The meeting could unveil a new Chinese foreign minister, too.
    Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Sergei Lavrov, the country's veteran foreign minister, will also stay in his job, the Kremlin said.
    Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
  • Five years ago, Spain’s foreign minister explained why his country had so far resisted the siren song of right-wing populism.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • While visiting Poland in March, Blinken stepped briefly onto Ukrainian soil to meet with the country's foreign minister.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Kuleba, the foreign minister, noted that the resistance at Azovstal still stands in the face of continued attacks.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
  • That’s why there’s so much attention on a meeting on Monday between the foreign ministers of Hungary and Ukraine.
    Luke McGee, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Ukraine’s foreign minister said the grain deal should not be restored by conceding to Russian demands.
    Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Yair Lapid, the Israeli foreign minister, said that his country was committed to freedom of worship for people of all faiths in Jerusalem.
    New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The five foreign ministers will visit a number of capitals in an effort to pursue a cease-fire, get aid into Gaza and end the war, Prince Faisal said last weekend.
    Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Questions from a Financial Times reporter about the foreign minister were omitted from the official Ministry record of the press event.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 18 July 2023
  • Former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides was elected as the new president of Cyprus in a runoff election Sunday.
    Menelaos Hadjicostis, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The Israeli foreign minister, Israel Katz, called on Saturday for it to be replaced.
    Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Following independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta served as the fledgling nation’s first foreign minister, then prime minister, and now twice as president.
    Charlie Campbell / Dili, Timor-Leste, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024

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