How to Use foreign minister in a Sentence

foreign minister

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wang, the outgoing foreign minister, was named to the Politburo in October.
    Russell Flannery, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The meeting could unveil a new Chinese foreign minister, too.
    Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Blinken met Friday with Arab foreign ministers at global climate talks in Dubai.
    Najib Jobain, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Tsai touched down in Guatemala on Friday afternoon, walking from the plane along a red carpet alongside Guatemala's foreign minister.
    Megan Janetsky, ajc, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Cavusoglu, the foreign minister, said Turkey plans to open two new border crossings with Syria.
    Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
  • One of the first dissents came from former foreign minister Gebran Bassil, a right-wing populist and a favorite target of protests against corruption.
    Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Before becoming foreign minister in 2012, Makei was Lukashenko's chief of staff.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Israel’s foreign minister arrived in Kyiv on Thursday in the first visit by an Israeli minister since the war began.
    Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • China’s foreign minister, Qin Gang—last seen shaking hands with a Vietnamese official at a meeting in Beijing—vanished at around the same time.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Among those at the meetings was Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, the lawsuit says.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Qin’s name is not included in the list of former foreign ministers nor in the Chinese language version of the former vice and assistant minister page.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Bodyguards to foreign ministers fumed as their security details got caught in the soggy scrum to proceed into the U.N. complex.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Ukraine's foreign minister told The Associated Press this week that his government would like to see a peace conference by the end of February.
    Arkansas Online, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Sitting down in a bar with the former foreign minister of Australia and gossiping at the lowest possible level of the government . .
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023

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