With a skeletal staff partially trained at their disposal, the initial architects endeavored to design a Ministry to engage with International organizations, protocol duties, diplomatic correspondence and the establishment of diplomatic missions. Even the functional design of a Foreign Ministry was itself an initial challenge. The first configuration consisted of four main divisions, namely, Political, International Organizations, Administration and Protocol, with the sub-divisions of Communications, Passports and Consular Relations. Although the staff were predominantly generalists, the lawyers were more involved with accession to treaties and conventions whilst the teachers and administrators were designing the structure and functions of the missions abroad, embryonic communication links, and conditions of service for diplomatic operations.

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