Extroverted ministries with relatively low claims on the public budget but significantly concerned with international relations include foreign affairs, trade, industry, finance, energy and agriculture.
In most countries, the executive branch sets the agenda in foreign affairs and has the power to initiate foreign economic policy.
From the outset there had been doubts and resistance in the government as well as in the standing committee on foreign affairs.
The author could have made more of the fact that in foreign affairs the distinction can involve a disconnection.
There are also significant differences in the discussion of local and especially foreign affairs.
The administrative vice minister of foreign affairs and deputy ministers of political affairs and economic affairs form the core executive.
The finance portfolio is consistently and significantly rated as the most important, followed by foreign affairs, then trade and industry.
By now, former security officials served as ministers of education, science and development/technology, communication, health, foreign affairs, police, and, of course, defense.
