Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile (Spanish: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores) is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of planning, directing, coordinating, executing, controlling and informing the foreign policy formulated by the President of Chile.

It is located in the Edificio José Miguel Carrera at Plaza de la Constitución (Constitution Square), in downtown Santiago.

The present minister of foreign affairs (who is also known colloquially as Chancellor) is Alberto van Klaveren.

The office was first organized in 1812, during the War of Independence, under the name of Foreign Affairs Secretariat.

It was abolished in 1814, after the Battle of Rancagua, when the Spanish government was re-established.