British Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is the government department of the United Kingdom that specializes in promoting British interests abroad, and was created in 1968 by the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the British Foreign Office. It is headed by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the "Foreign Secretary", who, along with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, is regarded as "the three most prestigious offices".