foreign office

NOUN

government office in charge of foreign relations

Synonyms

STRONGEST

embassy

WEAK

consular service corps diplomatique diplomatic corps diplomatic mission diplomatic service diplomatic staff foreign service legation

Example Sentences

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The Foreign Office has said the government was "deeply concerned" and continued to "raise this case directly with the Iranian authorities".

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The UK Foreign Office said its "thoughts are with all those injured and killed in the terrible tragedy" and consular staff were on standby to provide support to any British nationals affected.

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Consular staff are on standby to support any British nationals affected, a Foreign Office statement said.

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The UK Foreign Office said it was "supporting a number of British nationals involved" in the crash, while the US embassy in Peru said that US citizens were injured.

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"What he said was clearly quite abhorrent. Nobody would subscribe to that - certainly not the government. And now there is an inquiry by the Foreign Office about how these tweets were overlooked," he said.

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