Commonwealth Secretariat for External Affairs

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The Commonwealth Secretariat for External Affairs is the Commonwealth Commission secretariat responsible for the relations of the Commonwealth of Peoples with nations, supranational bodies and other sovereign or semi-sovereign actors outside the Commonwealth itself. It is comparable to the foreign ministries of most nations and is administered by the Commonwealth Secretary for External Affairs.

The largest of the Commonwealth secretariats, External Affairs is headquartered in the large Woodrow Fenn Building in New Amsterdam, Laneria, the Commonwealth's administrative center and de facto capital.

History

The Secretariat for External Affairs is one of fourteen secretariats created as part of the Commonwealth Commission by the New Amsterdam Treaty. Shortly after its creation, as the Commonwealth's common foreign policy went into effect, the Secretariat assumed control of all the foreign missions of Commonwealth members excepting only the Danaan embassies to Pantocratoria and Excalbia. The Secretariat then used these resources to establish the Commonwealth's own system of missions and embassies abroad.

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