Emily Deveraux
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| Rank | 24th Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Commonwealth of Azazia; 2nd Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Kingdom of Azazia, 1st Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom of Azazia |
| Term of Office: | 31 January - Present |
| Predecessor: | Ivan Valovich |
| Successor: | Incumbent |
| Birthdate | 22th April 1972 |
| Place of Birth: | Aix-en-Arista, Arista, Azazia |
| Spouse | Single |
| Profession | Politician, Foreign Secretary |
| Political party | Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) |
| Constituency | Queensbury, Artega (province) |
| Languages spoken | English, French, Spanish |
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The Right Honourable Emily Deveraux, Member of Parliament for Queensbury, Artega, has served as the foreign minister and foreign secretary for the successive United Kingdom of Azazia and now Oceania since 1997 when first brought to the post by the newly elected Prime Minister, Alistair Tetley. She has represented her constituency as a member of the Democratic Socialist Party since 2001, after moving from her hometown of Aix-en-Arista.
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Early Life
Born the only daughter to Pierre and Elizabeth Deveraux, Emily Deveraux was raised in the small provincial town of Aix-en-Arista, a town settled in the colonial days by the French and thus left with a substantial French culture. Deveraux spent her formative years in local private Catholics schools where she learned Spanish and where she was learned to be a politician, becoming president of her school.
These experiences pushed Deveraux into studying political science when she attended the University of Abercoyne. At the urging of her parents, she then added international relations to her academic career owing to her fluency in three languages – all three spoken by billions throughout the world.
Parliamentary Career
Early Career
In 1992 Deveraux ran for her local constituency of Aix-en-Arista, winning against her Conservative rival by a large margin owing in large part to a funding scandal that brought down numerous Conservative MPs in that year’s election that ultimately gave control of Parliament to the DSP.
Deveraux sat on numerous committees concerned with relations between the Commonwealth and the native inhabitants of the Republic of Azazia, as well as the numerous Spanish and French minority populations on other western islands. Her deft handling of the Transport Strike of 1996, which saw maritime and regional air traffic stopped in the western islands after numerous racist policies by local transport companies were revealed in a government investigation. Within a week the transport services of the western islands were running on schedule once again, most of the glory taken by the then Minister for Transportation Jonathan Harkins, but the party leadership recognised Deveraux’s critical role as liaison by offering her the position of Minister of the Interior just before the death of Reginald Baker in 1997.
Interior Minister
Deveraux began her ministry at Interior at the start of the first Tetley administration, known along with her colleagues at the Foreign and Defence Ministries as the ‘Young Bloods’ of the new DSP. As Minister of the Interior Deveraux’s largest task came as the integration of the territory of Juristan as a republic into the Commonwealth and while the initial hostility at the sale by Golencia brought violent protests, the Commonwealth’s soldiers used limited lethal force in enforcing the sale. Juristan soon after began to elect its own MPs and began to find in Imperium adequate representation
Foreign Minister
Since 1997, Ivan Valovich had served as Foreign Minister at the bequest of Tetley. While not particularly
