Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)

Mexico
Secretariat of Foreign Affairs
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Agency overview
Formed 1821
Headquarters Ave. Juárez #20, Col. Centro, CP 06010, Del. Cuauhtémoc. Ciudad de México
19°26′10″N 99°4′19″W / 19.43611°N 99.07194°W
Employees 11,500
Annual budget $27.4 billion (FY 2010)
Agency executive José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Child agency Mexican Consulate and Embassy
Website http://www.sre.gob.mx/

The Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (Spanish: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, SRE) is the government department responsible for Mexico's foreign affairs.

Mexico currently has 78 Embassies, 33 Consulates-General, 35 Consulates, 1 Representative Office in Ramallah, 1 Trade Office in Taiwan and 144 honorary consulates around the world. Mexico also has 2 permanent representations to the United Nations in New York City and Geneva, there are also permanent missions to the OAS in Washington, D.C., to UNESCO in Paris, to EU in Brussels, to OECD in Paris, to ICAO in Montreal and to OPANAL in Mexico City. Mexico also has permanent observer mission status to the AU, CAN, CE, Mercosur, NAM and Unasur.

The person in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

The Secretary's offices are divided Undersecretary for Foreign Relations, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Economic Relations and International Cooperation and for the Legal Counselor.

List of secretaries

  • President Juan Nepomuceno Álvarez
    • (1855–1855) : Melchor Ocampo
    • (1855–1855) : Miguel María Arrioja
  • President Ignacio Comonfort
    • (1855–1855) : Lucas de Palacio y Magarola
    • (1855–1856) : Luis de la Rosa
    • (1856–1856) : Juan Antonio de la Fuente
    • (1856–1856) : Miguel Lerdo de Tejada
    • (1856–1857) : Lucas de Palacio y Magarola
    • (1857–1857) : Ezequiel Montes
    • (1857–1857) : Lucas de Palacio y Magarola
    • (1857–1857) : Juan Antonio de la Fuente
    • (1857–1857) : Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
    • (1857–1857) : Lucas de Palacio y Magarola
    • (1857–1857) : Juan Antonio de la Fuente
    • (1857–1858) : Lucas de Palacio y Magarola
  • President Miguel Miramón
    • (1859–1859) : Joaquín María del Castillo
    • (1859–1859) : José Miguel Arroyo
    • (1859–1859) : Manuel Diez de Bonilla
    • (1859–1860) : Octaviano Muñoz Ledo
    • (1860–1860) : José Miguel Arroyo[2]
    • (1860–1860) : Teodosio Lares[2]
  • President Juan Nepomuceno Méndez
    • (1876–1877) : Ignacio Luis Vallarta
  • President Francisco Carvajal
    • (1914–1914) : Rafael Díaz Iturbide
  • President Venustiano Carranza
    • (1914–1914) : Isidro Fabela
    • (1914–1915) : Jesús Urueta y Siqueiros
    • (1915–1916) : Jesús Mario Acuña Fadul
    • (1916–1917) : Cándido Aguilar
    • (1917–1917) : Ernesto Garza Pérez
  • President Adolfo de la Huerta
    • (1920–1920) : Miguel Covarrubias Acosta
    • (1920–1920) : Cutberto Hidalgo Téllez
  • President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río
    • (1934–1935) : Emilio Portes Gil
    • (1935–1935) : José Ángel Ceniceros
    • (1935–1940) : Eduardo Hay

References

  1. 11th Administration
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 12th Administration
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Ministre of Foreign Affairs and Navy of Mexico
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 13th Administration

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