abstract:The Minister for Foreign Affairs () is the head of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Össur Skarphéðinsson.
Earlier, Zhang also met respectively with visitingJapaneseDeputyMinisterfor Foreign Affairs Bessho Koroand State Secretaryfor Foreign Affairs Yutaka Banno.
U.S.Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Patrick Moon, and Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Mehdi Akhonzadeh spoke within minutes of one another at the SCO's Special Conference on Afghanistan.
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The Irish MinisterforForeignAffairs, Eamon Gilmore, will lay a wreath at Belfast City Hall cenotaph.