- List of current foreign ministers
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This is a list of current foreign ministers of the 193 United Nations member states and the Holy See (Vatican City).
Foreign ministers of unrecognized countries (e.g. Kosovo, Taiwan, Palestine, Western Sahara), contested territories, autonomous regions, etc. are included in the second table.
Female ministers are shown in bold font.
Contents
Sovereign states
Country Name Since Afghanistan (list of ministers) Zalmai Rassoul 18 January 2010 Albania (list of ministers) Edmond Haxhinasto 16 September 2010 Algeria Mourad Medelci 4 June 2007 Andorra Gilbert Saboya Sunyé 12 May 2011 Angola (list of ministers) George Rebelo Pinto Chicoti 26 November 2010 Antigua and Barbuda Baldwin Spencer (prime minister) 6 January 2005 Argentina (list of ministers) Héctor Timerman 22 June 2010 Armenia Eduard Nalbandyan 14 April 2008 Australia (list of ministers) Kevin Rudd 14 September 2010 Austria (list of ministers) Michael Spindelegger 2 December 2008 Azerbaijan (list of ministers) Elmar Mammadyarov 2 April 2004 Bahamas Brent Symonette 4 May 2007 Bahrain Sheikh Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah 26 September 2005 Bangladesh (list of ministers) Dipu Moni 6 January 2009 Barbados (list of ministers) Maxine McClean 24 November 2008 Belarus Sergei Martynov 21 March 2003 Belgium (list of ministers) Steven Vanackere 25 November 2009 Belize Wilfred Elrington 12 February 2008 Benin (list of ministers) Nassirou Bako Arifari 28 May 2011 Bhutan Ugyen Tshering 11 April 2008 Bolivia David Choquehuanca 23 January2006 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj 9 February 2007 Botswana Phandu Skelemani 1 April 2008 Brazil Antonio Patriota 1 January 2011 Brunei Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah 1 January 1984 Bulgaria Nikolay Mladenov 27 January 2010 Burkina Faso Djibril Bassolé 21 April 2011 Burma (list of ministers) Wunna Maung Lwin 30 March 2011 Burundi Laurent Kavakure 7 November 2011 Cambodia Hor Namhong 30 November 1998 Cameroon Henri Eyebe Ayissi 7 September 2007 Canada (list of ministers) John Baird 18 May 2011 Cape Verde Jorge Borges 21 March 2011 Central African Republic Antoine Gambi 19 January 2009 Chad Moussa Faki 23 April 2008 Chile (list of ministers) Alfredo Moreno Charme 11 March 2010 People's Republic of China (list of ministers) Yang Jiechi 27 April 2007 Colombia (list of ministers) María Ángela Holguín 7 August 2010 Comoros Mohamed Bakri Ben Abdoulfatah Charif 30 May 2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo (list of ministers) Alexis Thambwe Mwamba 26 October 2008 Republic of the Congo Basile Ikouébé 31 May 2007 Costa Rica Enrique Castillo 14 September 2011 Côte d'Ivoire Daniel Kablan Duncan 1 June 2011 Croatia (list of ministers) Gordan Jandroković 12 January 2008 Cuba (list of ministers) Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla 2 March 2009 Cyprus (list of ministers) Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis 5 August 2011 Czech Republic (list of ministers) Karel Schwarzenberg 13 July 2010 Denmark (list of ministers) Villy Søvndal 3 October 2011 Djibouti Mahamoud Ali Youssouf 22 May 2005 Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit (prime minister) 4 January 2010 Dominican Republic Carlos Morales Troncoso 16 August 2004 East Timor Zacarias da Costa 8 August 2007 Ecuador Ricardo Patiño 28 January 2010 Egypt (list of ministers) Mohamed Kamel Amr 18 July 2011 El Salvador Hugo Martínez 1 June 2009 Equatorial Guinea Pastor Micha Ondó Bile 11 February 2003 Eritrea Osman Saleh Mohammed 18 April 2007 Estonia (list of ministers) Urmas Paet 13 April 2005 Ethiopia (list of ministers) Haile Mariam Desalegne 5 October 2010 Fiji (list of ministers) Ratu Inoke Kubuabola 3 August 2009 Finland (list of ministers) Erkki Tuomioja 22 June 2011 France (list of ministers) Alain Juppé 27 February 2011 Gabon (list of ministers) Paul Toungui 7 October 2008 Gambia Mamadou Tangara 7 June 2010 Georgia (list of ministers) Grigol Vashadze 5 December 2008 Germany (list of ministers) Guido Westerwelle 28 October 2009 Ghana (list of ministers) Muhammad Mumuni 20 February 2009 Greece (list of ministers) Stavros Dimas 11 November 2011 Grenada Karl Hood 22 November 2010 Guatemala Haroldo Rodas 14 January 2008 Guinea Edouard Niankoye Lamah 27 December 2010 Guinea-Bissau Mamadu Saliu Djaló Pires 27 August 2009 Guyana Carolyn Rodrigues 10 April 2008 Haiti (list of ministers) Laurent Lamothe 18 October 2011 Honduras Arturo Corrales 16 September 2011 Holy See (Vatican City) (list of ministers) Dominique Mamberti 15 September 2006 Hungary (list of ministers) János Martonyi 29 May 2010 Iceland (list of ministers) Össur Skarphéðinsson 1 February 2009 India (list of ministers) S. M. Krishna 23 May 2009 Indonesia Marty Natalegawa 22 October 2009 Iran (list of ministers) Ali Akbar Salehi 13 December 2010 Iraq Hoshyar Zebari 3 September 2003 Ireland (list of ministers) Eamon Gilmore 9 March 2011 Israel (list of ministers) Avigdor Lieberman 31 March 2009 Italy (list of ministers) Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata 16 November 2011 Jamaica Kenneth Baugh 14 September 2007 Japan (list of ministers) Kōichirō Genba 2 September 2011 Jordan Nasser Judeh 23 February 2009 Kazakhstan (list of ministers) Yerzhan Kazykhanov 11 April 2011 Kenya (list of ministers) Moses Wetangula 8 January 2008 Kiribati Anote Tong (president) 4 July 2003 North Korea Pak Ui-chun 18 May 2007 South Korea (list of ministers) Kim Sung-hwan 8 October 2010 Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah 23 October 2011 Kyrgyzstan Ruslan Kazakbayev 14 April 2010 Laos Thongloun Sisoulith 8 June 2006 Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs 25 October 2011 Lebanon Adnan Mansour 13 June 2011 Lesotho Mohlabi Tsekoa 2 March 2007 Liberia (list of ministers) Toga McIntosh 5 December 2010 Libya (list of ministers) Mahmoud Jibril 23 August 2011 Liechtenstein Aurelia Frick 25 March 2009 Lithuania (list of ministers) Audronius Ažubalis 11 February 2010 Luxembourg (list of ministers) Jean Asselborn 21 July 2004 Macedonia Nikola Poposki 28 July 2011 Madagascar Yvette Sylla 26 March 2011 Malaysia Anifah Aman 10 April 2009 Malawi Peter Mutharika 7 September 2011 Maldives Ahmed Naseem 21 March 2011 Mali Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga 6 April 2011 Malta (list of ministers) Tonio Borg 12 March 2008 Marshall Islands John Silk 30 March 2009 Mauritius Arvin Boolell 13 September 2008 Mauritania Hamadi Ould Hamadi 22 March 2011 Mexico (list of ministers) Patricia Espinosa 1 December 2006 Federated States of Micronesia Lorin S. Robert 14 July 2007 Moldova (list of ministers) Iurie Leancă 25 September 2009 Monaco José Badia 1 January 2011 Mongolia Gombojav Zandanshatar 12 November 2009 Montenegro (list of ministers) Milan Roćen 10 November 2006 Morocco Taieb Fassi Fihri 15 October 2007 Mozambique Oldemiro Balói 10 March 2008 Namibia (list of ministers) Utoni Nujoma 21 March 2010 Nauru Sprent Dabwido 16 November 2011 Nepal Narayan Kaji Shrestha 4 September 2011 Netherlands (list of ministers) Uri Rosenthal 14 October 2010 New Zealand (list of ministers) Murray McCully 19 November 2008 Nicaragua Samuel Santos López 11 January 2007 Niger (list of ministers) Mohamed Bazoum 21 April 2011 Nigeria (list of ministers) Olugbenga Ashiru 11 July 2011 Norway (list of ministers) Jonas Gahr Støre 17 October 2005 Oman Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah 1982 Pakistan (list of ministers) Hina Rabbani Khar 13 February 2011 Palau Victor Yano 19 April 2010 Panama Roberto Henríquez 31 August 2011 Papua New Guinea Ano Pala 21 June 2011 Paraguay Jorge Lara Castro 22 March 2011 Peru Rafael Roncagliolo 28 July 2011 Philippines (list of ministers) Albert del Rosario 2 March 2011 Poland (list of ministers) Radosław Sikorski 16 November 2007 Portugal (list of ministers) Paulo Portas 21 June 2011 Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani (prime minister) 1 September 1992 Romania (list of ministers) Teodor Baconschi 23 December 2009 Russia (list of ministers) Sergey Lavrov 9 March 2004 Rwanda Louise Mushikiwabo 3 December 2009 Saint Kitts and Nevis Sam Condor 7 February 2010 Saint Lucia Rufus Bousquet 2 February 2009 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Douglas Slater 19 December 2010 San Marino Antonella Mularoni 4 December 2008 Samoa Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi (prime minister) 23 November 1998 São Tomé and Príncipe (list of ministers) Manuel Salvador dos Ramos 14 August 2010 Saudi Arabia Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz 13 October 1975 Senegal (list of ministers) Madické Niang 1 October 2009 Serbia Vuk Jeremić 15 May 2007 Seychelles (list of ministers) Jean-Paul Adam 8 June 2010 Sierra Leone (list of ministers) J. B. Dauda 4 December 2010 Singapore (list of ministers) K. Shanmugam 21 May 2011 Slovakia Mikuláš Dzurinda 9 July 2010 Slovenia (list of ministers) Samuel Žbogar 21 November 2008 Solomon Islands Peter Shanel Agovaka 27 August 2010 Somalia Mohamed Mohamud Ibrahim 20 July 2011 South Africa (list of ministers) Maite Nkoana-Mashabane 11 May 2009 South Sudan Nhial Deng Nhial 26 August 2011 Spain (list of ministers) Trinidad Jiménez 21 October 2010 Sri Lanka (list of ministers) G. L. Peiris 23 April 2010 Sudan Ali Karti 16 June 2010 Suriname Winston Lackin 12 August 2010 Swaziland Mtiti Fakudze 17 October 2011 Sweden (list of ministers) Carl Bildt 6 October 2006 Switzerland (list of ministers) Micheline Calmy-Rey 1 January 2003 Syria (list of ministers) Walid Muallem 11 February 2006 Tajikistan Hamrokhon Zarifi 1 December 2006 Tanzania Bernard Membe 11 January 2007 Thailand Surapong Tovichakchaikul 10 August 2011 Togo Elliott Ohin 28 May 2010 Tonga Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō (prime minister) 22 December 2010 Trinidad and Tobago Surujrattan Rambachan 28 May 2010 Tunisia (list of ministers) Mouldi Kefi 21 February 2011 Turkey (list of ministers) Ahmet Davutoğlu 1 May 2009 Turkmenistan Raşit Meredow 7 July 2001 Tuvalu Apisai Ielemia 24 December 2010 Uganda Sam Kutesa 13 January 2005 Ukraine (list of ministers) Kostyantyn Hryshchenko 11 March 2010 United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan 9 February 2006 United Kingdom (list of ministers) William Hague 11 May 2010 United States (list of ministers) Hillary Rodham Clinton 21 January 2009 Uruguay (list of ministers) Luis Almagro 1 March 2010 Uzbekistan (list of ministers) Elyor Ganiyev 28 December 2010 Vanuatu Alfred Carlot 27 June 2011 Venezuela (list of ministers) Nicolás Maduro 9 August 2006 Vietnam Phạm Bình Minh 3 August 2011 Yemen Abou Bakr al-Kerbi 4 April 2001 Zambia Chishimba Kambwili 30 September 2011 Zimbabwe Simbarashe Mumbengegwi 15 April 2005 Unrecognized countries, autonomous regions
Country Name Since Abkhazia (list of ministers) Maxim Gvinjia 26 February 2010 Brussels-Capital Region Jean-Luc Vanraes 2009 Cook Islands Tom Marsters[1] 3 December 2010 Faroe Islands Jørgen Niclasen 26 September 2008 Flanders Kris Peeters (prime minister) 2008 French Polynesia Oscar Temaru (president) 1 April 2011 Greenland Kuupik Kleist (prime minister) 12 June 2009 Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (in exile) Usmane Ferzauli[2] 2007 Kosovo (list of ministers) Enver Hoxhaj 22 February 2011 Kurdistan Falah Mustafa Bakir September 2006 Nagorno-Karabakh Georgy Petrosyan 26 December 2005 Niue Toke Talagi (prime minister) 7 June 2008 Northern Cyprus Hüseyin Özgürgün 5 May 2009 Palestinian Authority (list of ministers) Riyad al-Maliki 1 September 2007 Puntland Farah Adan Dhala 2009 Quebec Monique Gagnon-Tremblay[3] 11 August 2010 Somaliland Abdillahi Mohamed Omer 29 July 2010 South Ossetia Murat Dzhioyev 1998 Taiwan (Republic of China) (list of ministers) Timothy Yang 10 September 2009 Tokelau Foua Toloa (prime minister) February 2011 Transnistria Vladimir Yastrebchak 1 July 2008 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Mohamed Salem Ould Salek 21 January 1998 Sui generis entities
Entity Name Since European Union Catherine Ashton (United Kingdom) 1 December 2009 Sovereign Military Order of Malta Jean-Pierre Mazery 16 April 2005 Notes
- ^ Previously from 2004-05.
- ^ 2nd time. Republican government, in opposition to emir.
- ^ Previously from 2003-2008.
See also
- Category:Lists of foreign ministers by year
- List of current presidents of assembly
- List of current heads of state and government
- List of current Permanent Representatives to the United Nations
External links
Categories:- Lists of government ministers
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