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  1. Executive Department
  2. Created: 1789
  3. Title of Department Head: secretary of state
  4. Jurisdiction and Mission: advises the president on foreign policy, promotes long-range national security, negotiates treaties and agreements with foreign countries, represents the United States in the United Nations and other international organizations
  5. Agencies and Commissions: Agency for International Development, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Foreign Service Institute, Office of Foreign Missions, United States Information Agency, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations