Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (France)

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAEDI) is the ministry in the government of France that handles France's foreign relations. Its headquarters are located on the Quai d'Orsay^{[Notes 1]} in Paris, close to the National Assembly of France.

Its cabinet minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development (French: Ministre des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international) is responsible for the foreign relations of France. The current minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, was appointed in May 2017.

In 1547, secretaries to the King became specialized, writing correspondence to foreign governments, and negotiating peace treaties. The four French secretaries of state where foreign relations were divided by region, in 1589, became centralized with one becoming first secretary responsible for international relations.

The Ancien Régime position of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs became Foreign Minister around 1723,^[1] and was renamed "Minister of Foreign Affairs" in 1791 after the French Revolution. All ministerial positions were abolished in 1794 by the National Convention and re-established with the Directory.

For a brief period in the 1980s, the office was retitled Minister for External Relations. As of 17 May 2017, the ministry is designated the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Central administration

The official entrance to the ministry building on the Quai d'Orsay.

Under the authority of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, along with two other ministers assigned to the Cooperation and European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs encompasses numerous services:

Services directly related to the ministers

• The ministers' cabinet
• The office of cabinets, which gathers a personnel in charge of the administrative and logostics aspects of the three ministers' cabinets
• The budget control service (CBCM)
• General inspection of foreign affairs (IGAE)
• The prospective office (DP)
• The Protocole, upon which the President's protocole cell relies on
• The Crisis management Department (CDC)

Secretaries of State (1547–1723)

Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs (1718–1791)

Minister of Foreign Affairs (1791–2007)

Consulate and First Empire

First Restoration and the Hundred Days

Second Restoration

July Monarchy

Second Republic

Second Empire

Third Republic

Vichy Regime

Free French Commissioners

Fourth Republic

Fifth Republic

Minister of Foreign and European Affairs (2007–2012)

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development (2012–2017)

Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs (2017– )

Notes

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (France).

• 140 Ministries of Foreign Affairs (1589–2000) on the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
• Official site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Official treaty database of France
• Dictionnaire historique des institutions, mœurs et coutumes de la France, Adolphe Chéruel, L. Hachette et cie, 1855
• "Ministries 1700–1870", Rulers.org