Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)

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Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores
Headquarters of the SRE in Mexico City
Agency overview
Formed	1821; 203 years ago (1821)
Jurisdiction	Federal Government of Mexico
Headquarters	Ave. Juárez #20, Col. Centro, CP 06010, Del. Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City 19°26′01″N 99°08′39″W / 19.43361°N 99.14417°W / 19.43361; -99.14417
Employees	11,500
Annual budget	$27.4 billion (FY 2010)
Minister responsible	Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Child agency	Mexican Consulates and Embassies
Website	http://www.sre.gob.mx
Footnotes
Mexico portal

The Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (Spanish: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, SRE, lit: Secretariat of External 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 European Union 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 Secretariat also operates passport offices throughout Mexico where Mexican citizens can apply in person for passports for international travel.

The person in charge of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs is the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, also known domestically as the canciller (Spanish, lit. chancellor).

The Secretary's subordinate officials and agencies include the Undersecretary for Foreign Relations, the Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Undersecretary for North America, the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) and the Legal Counselor.