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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Colombia)

Performs diplomatic relations with other states of the Republic of Colombia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ2602530 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spanish: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, MRE), also known as the Chancellery (Spanish: Cancillería), is the Cabinet position of the Government of Colombia responsible for the international relations of Colombia through its diplomatic missions abroad by formulating foreign policy relevant to the matters of the State. It is equivalent to the foreign affairs ministries of other countries.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Colombia)” as performs diplomatic relations with other states of the Republic of Colombia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 61-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1821-07-12. The account is most persuasive where Ministry, Foreign and Affairs can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as performs diplomatic relations with other states of the Republic of Colombia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2602530. VIAF identifies the subject as 158874642. The Library of Congress control number is n81024686. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Colombia)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.