Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores | |
Secretariat of Foreign Affairs
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Formed | 1821 |
Headquarters | Ave. Juárez #20, Col. Centro, CP 06010, Del. Cuauhtémoc. Ciudad de México 19°26′01″N 99°08′39″W / 19.43361°N 99.14417°W |
Employees | 11,500 |
Annual budget | $27.4 billion (FY 2010) |
Agency executive | |
Child agency | |
Website | http://www.sre.gob.mx/ |
The Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (Spanish: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, SRE, lit: Secretariat of Foreign Relations) is the government department responsible for Mexico's foreign affairs.
Mexico currently has 80 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, also known domestically as the canciller (Spanish, lit. chancellor).
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.