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| Agency overview | |
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| Jurisdiction | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Headquarters | Church Street, Basseterre |
| Annual budget | 5 million[ specify ] |
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| Website | foreign.gov.kn |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the ministry responsible for handling the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis' external relations and its diplomatic missions abroad. [1] The ministry's current director is Minister of Foreign Affairs and Aviation, Denzil Douglas.
Although Saint Kitts and Nevis maintains formal and friendly ties with many of its neighbors and major regional and world powers, countries such as the United States do not have permanent representatives on the islands. The U.S. State Department, for example, has ambassadors and consular staff present in nearby Barbados and Antigua. [2]
This is a list of ministers of foreign affairs of Saint Kitts and Nevis: [3]
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The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Saint Kitts & Nevis.
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Events from the year 2022 in Saint Kitts and Nevis
