How to Use foreign minister in a Sentence

foreign minister

noun
  • Benzion once remarked that his son might make a fine foreign minister.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Iran’s foreign minister has rejected calls for a cease-fire.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2026
  • All of the foreign ministers seemed to have attended the same grande école in Paris.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 17 Sep. 2024
  • This from the foreign minister again according to al Jazeera.
    — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • And Iran’s foreign minister told NBC the two sides were close to a deal.
    — Farah N. Jan, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • In opening the meeting, Malaysia’s foreign minister urged the bloc to play a more forceful role.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Its foreign ministers met just the other day, and India will host a summit of the four leaders this fall.
    — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The Israeli foreign minister said Gaza will be reduced in size after the war.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The foreign minister outlined a couple of conditions that need to be met for the recognition to take place.
    — Filip Timotija, The Hill, 2 Sep. 2025
  • That would require shippers to pay tolls to Iran, according to its deputy foreign minister.
    — Arsalan Shahla, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Even in the final days, foreign ministers were calling, offering deals.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Which, by the way, the UAE foreign minister has supported of two states.
    — ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry last week called for Israel to open them.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said that no such meeting was in the works.
    — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 7 Sep. 2025
  • France’s foreign minister condemned the strike on the prison, which was housing two French nationals.
    — Irene Nasser, CNN Money, 29 June 2025
  • Ukraine's foreign minister said the attack showed Russia is not pursuing peace.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Then, on the Iranian side, the foreign minister is the one who has been speaking for Iran publicly.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Jakub Kulhanek, the Czech foreign minister, said that his country was also willing to help.
    — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Israel’s foreign minister has accused Hamas of trying to use the hostages’ bodies as leverage.
    — Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • On Wednesday, Iran’s foreign minister called Qatar and France.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
  • According to its foreign minister, China is a strategic partner in the war.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The secretary of state plans to convene foreign ministers in Washington next week.
    — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 9 July 2026
  • Last week, Iran's foreign minister also traveled to Beijing for the first time since the Iran war.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 12 May 2026
  • So Joseph Wu, the foreign minister of Taiwan, told the press his people, uh, noticed the radar alarms.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 June 2021
  • Rasmussen, who is now the foreign minister, first made refugee status temporary, not permanent.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 19 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, can rarely be described as looking happy.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The texts date from when Lajčák was Slovakia's foreign minister in 2018.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • And joining me now from Kyiv is Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba.
    — NBC News, 10 Apr. 2022

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