Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)

Secretariat of Foreign Affairs
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores
Logo of the mexican Secretariat 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
Employees	11,500
Annual budget	$27.4 billion (FY 2010)
Agency executive	Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Child agency	Mexican Consulate and Embassy
Website
sre.gov.mx

Headquarters of Mexico's Secretariat of Foreign Affairs

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

Missions

Mexico currently has:

• 73 Embassies
• 33 Consulates-Generals
• 35 Consulates
• 1 Representative Office in Ramallah
• 1 Trade Office in Taiwan
• 144 Honorary consulates around the world
• Mexico also has 2 permanent representations to the United Nations in New York 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.

Organization

The person in charge of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs is the Secretary of Foreign Affairs. The current Secretary of Foreign Affairs or Chancellor is Patricia Espinosa Cantellano.

The Secretary's offices are divided as follows:

• UnderSecretary for Foreign Relations
• UnderSecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean
• UnderSecretary for North America
• UnderSecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights
• Unit for Economic Relations and International Coopertation
• Office of the Legal Counsellor

• The Secretary also has a diplomatic school called the Matías Romero Institute (Instituto Matías Romero).

See also

• Foreign relations of Mexico
• List of diplomatic missions of Mexico
• List of diplomatic missions in Mexico
• Mexican passport

External links

• Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
• Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico (Spanish)