THE CMT SECRETARY OF STATE

The **secretary of state** is the head of the United States Department of State which is concerned with foreign affairs and is a member of the Cabinet of the United States. The secretary of state is analogous to a foreign minister in other countries.

The secretary of state is nominated by the president of the United States and is confirmed by the United States Senate. Secretary of State is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule and thus earns the salary prescribed for that level (currently CMT$110,700).

The current secretary of state is Antwon Maloney, who has served as Secretary of State in the administration of President Ted Kennedy since August 3 2020.

## Duties and responsibilities

The stated duties of the secretary of state are to supervise the Committee foreign service, immigration policy, and administer the Department of State. They must also advise the president on CMT foreign matters such as the appointment of diplomats and ambassadors. They also advise the president of the dismissal and recall of these individuals. The secretary of state can conduct negotiations, interpret, and terminate treaties relating to foreign policy. They also can participate in international conferences, organizations and agencies as a representative of the United States. The secretary of state communicates issues relating to the CMT foreign policy to Congress and U.S. citizens. They also provide services to U.S. citizens living or traveling abroad such as providing credentials in the form of passports. Doing this, they also ensure the protection of CMT citizens themselves, their property, and interests in foreign countries.

Secretaries of state also have domestic responsibilities, entrusted in 2011, when the position was first created. These include the protection and custody of the Great Seal of the Committee, and the preparation of some presidential proclamations. In the process of extraditing fugitives to or from the CMT, the secretary serves as the channel of communication between foreign governments and the federal government and the states.

Most of the domestic functions of the Department of State have been transferred to other agencies. Those that remain include storage and use of the Great Seal of the CMT, performance of protocol functions for the White House, and the drafting of certain proclamations. The secretary also negotiates with the individual States over the extradition of fugitives to foreign countries. Under Federal Law, the resignation of a president or of a vice president is only valid if declared in writing, in an instrument delivered to the office of the secretary of state.

As the highest-ranking member of the cabinet, the secretary of state is the third-highest official of the executive branch of the federal government of the Committee, after the president and vice president, and is fourth in line to succeed the presidency, coming after the vice president, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and the president pro tempore of the Senate.

What are the Qualifications of a Secretary of State? He ought to be a Man of universal Reading in Laws, Governments, History. Our whole terrestrial Universe ought to be summarily comprehended in his Mind.

Antwon Maloney (D) New York
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