List of current foreign ministers

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1 Sovereign States
2 Unrecognized Countries and Disputed Territories
3 Sui generis entities
4 Notes
5 See also
6 External links

This is a list of current foreign ministers of the 192 United Nations member states, the Holy See (Vatican City), Kosovo, the Republic of China (Taiwan), the Palestinian Authority, and Western Sahara (SADR).

Foreign ministers of unrecognized countries, contested territories, autonomous regions, etc. are also included.

[edit] Sovereign States

Country	Name	Since
Afghanistan	Rangin Dadfar Spanta	22 March 2006
Albania	Lulzim Basha	2 May 2007
Algeria	Mourad Medelci	4 June 2007
Andorra	Meritxell Mateu Pi	2 May 2007
Angola	João Bernardo de Miranda	30 January 1999
Antigua and Barbuda	Baldwin Spencer	6 January 2005
Argentina	Jorge Taiana	1 December 2005
Armenia	Eduard Nalbandyan	14 April 2008
Australia	Stephen Smith	3 December 2007
Austria	Ursula Plassnik	20 October 2004
Azerbaijan	Elmar Mammadyarov	2 April 2004
Bahamas	Brent Symonette	4 May 2007
Bahrain	Sheikh Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah	26 September 2005
Bangladesh	Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury	18 January 2007
Barbados	Christopher Sinckler	20 January 2008
Belarus	Syarhey Martynau	21 March 2003
Belgium	Karel De Gucht	20 July 2004
Belize	Wilfred Elrington	12 February 2008
Benin	Moussa Okanla	17 June 2007
Bhutan	Ugyen Tshering	11 April 2008
Bolivia	David Choquehuanca	23 January 2006
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sven Alkalaj	9 February 2007
Botswana	Phandu Skelemani	1 April 2008
Brazil	Celso Amorim	1 January 2003
Brunei	Pagiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah	1 January 1984
Bulgaria	Ivailo Kalfin	16 August 2005
Burkina Faso	Djibril Bassolé	10 June 2007
Burma	Nyan Win	18 September 2004
Burundi	Antoinette Batumubwira	30 August 2005
Cambodia	Hor Namhong	30 November 1998
Cameroon	Henri Eyebe Ayissi	7 September 2007
Canada	Maxime Bernier	14 August 2007
Cape Verde	Víctor Borges	3 April 2004
Central African Republic	Dieudonné Kombo Yaya	28 January 2008
Chad	Moussa Faki	23 April 2008
Chile	Alejandro Foxley	11 March 2006
People's Republic of China	Yang Jiechi	27 April 2007
Colombia	Fernando Araújo	19 February 2007
Comoros	Ahmed Said Jaffar	28 May 2006
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi	5 February 2007
Republic of the Congo	Basile Ikouébé	31 May 2007
Costa Rica	Bruno Stagno	8 May 2006
Côte d'Ivoire	Youssouf Bakayoko	3 January 2006
Croatia	Gordan Jandroković	12 January 2008
Cuba	Felipe Pérez Roque	28 May 1999
Cyprus	Markos Kyprianou	3 March 2008
Czech Republic	Karel Schwarzenberg	9 January 2007
Denmark	Per Stig Møller	27 November 2001
Djibouti	Mahamoud Ali Youssouf	22 May 2005
Dominica	Roosevelt Skerrit	22 October 2007
Dominican Republic	Carlos Morales Troncoso	16 August 2004
East Timor	Zacarias da Costa	8 August 2007
Egypt	Ahmed Aboul Gheit	10 July 2004
Ecuador	María Isabel Salvador	7 December 2007
El Salvador	Marisol Argueta de Barillas	16 January 2008
Equatorial Guinea	Pastor Micha Ondó Bile	11 February 2003
Eritrea	Osman Saleh	18 April 2007
Estonia	Urmas Paet	13 April 2005
Ethiopia	Seyoum Mesfin	1991
Fiji	Epeli Nailatikau	8 January 2007
Finland	Alexander Stubb	4 April 2008
France	Bernard Kouchner	May 2007
Gabon	Laure Olga Gondjout	6 February 2008
Gambia	Omar Touray	19 March 2008
Georgia	Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili	5 May 2008
Germany	Frank-Walter Steinmeier	22 November 2005
Ghana	Akwasi Osei-Adjei	27 July 2007
Greece	Dora Bakoyannis	15 February 2006
Grenada	Elvin Nimrod	2000
Guatemala	Roger Haroldo Rodas Melgar	14 January 2008
Guinea	Kabèlè Abdoul Camara	28 March 2007
Guinea-Bissau	Maria da Conceição Nobre Cabral	17 April 2007
Guyana	Carolyn Rodrigues	10 April 2008
Haiti	Rénald Clérismé	9 June 2006
Honduras	Ángel Edmundo Orellana	1 February 2008
Holy See (Vatican City)	Dominique Mamberti	15 September 2006
Hungary	Kinga Göncz	9 June 2006
Iceland	Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir	24 May 2007
India	Pranab Mukherjee	24 October 2006
Indonesia	Hassan Wirajuda	9 August 2001
Iran	Manouchehr Mottaki	24 August 2005
Iraq	Hoshyar Zebari	3 September 2003
Ireland	Micheál Martin	7 May 2008
Israel	Tzipi Livni	18 January 2006
Italy	Franco Frattini	8 May 2008
Jamaica	Kenneth Baugh	14 September 2007
Japan	Nobutaka Machimura	27 August 2007
Jordan	Salah Bashir	25 November 2007
Kazakhstan	Marat Tazhin	10 January 2007
Kenya	Moses Wetangula	10 January 2008
Kiribati	Anote Tong	4 July 2003
North Korea	Pak Ui Chun	18 May 2007
South Korea	Yu Myung Hwan	29 February 2008
Kosovo	(minister to be sworn in) ^[1]	-
Kuwait	Sheikh Muhammad Al-Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah	14 July 2003
Kyrgyzstan	Ednan Karabayev	8 February 2007
Laos	Thongloun Sisoulith	8 June 2006
Latvia	Māris Riekstiņš	8 November 2007
Lebanon	Tarek Mitri (acting)	November 2006
Lesotho	Mohlabi Tsekoa	2 March 2007
Liberia	Olubanke King-Akerele	22 August 2007
Libya	Abdel Rahman Shalgham	1 March 2000
Liechtenstein	Rita Kieber-Beck	21 April 2005
Lithuania	Petras Vaitiekūnas	18 July 2006
Luxembourg	Jean Asselborn	21 July 2004
Macedonia	Antonio Milošoski	27 Aug 2006
Madagascar	Marcel Ranjeva	14 May 2002
Malaysia	Rais Yatim	18 March 2008
Malawi	Joyce Banda	1 June 2006
Maldives	Abdullah Shahid	23 August 2007
Mali	Moctar Ouane	2 May 2004
Malta	Tonio Borg	12 March 2008
Marshall Islands	Tony deBrum	14 January 2008
Mauritius	Navin Ramgoolam (acting)	17 March 2008
Mauritania	Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna‎	11 May 2008
Mexico	Patricia Espinosa	1 December 2006
Micronesia	Lorin S. Robert	2007
Moldova	Andrei Stratan	4 February 2002
Monaco	Jean Pastorelli	1 June 2007
Mongolia	Sanjaasüregiyn Oyun	5 December 2007
Montenegro	Milan Roćen	10 November 2006
Morocco	Taieb Fassi Fihri	15 October 2007
Mozambique	Oldemiro Balói	10 March 2008
Namibia	Marco Hausiku	27 May 2004
Nauru	Kierek Keke	19 December 2007
Nepal	Sahana Pradhan	1 April 2007
Netherlands	Maxime Verhagen	22 February 2007
New Zealand	Winston Peters	19 October 2005
Nicaragua	Samuel Santos	11 January 2007
Niger	Aïchatou Mindaoudou	17 September 2001
Nigeria	Ojo Maduekwe	26 July 2007
Norway	Jonas Gahr Støre	17 October 2005
Oman	Youssef al-Alawi Abdullah	1982
Pakistan	Shah Mehmood Qureshi	31 March 2008
Palau	Tommy Remengesau	1 January 2001
Palestinian Authority	Salam Fayyad	17 June 2007
Panama	Samuel Lewis Navarro	1 September 2004
Papua New Guinea	Sam Abal	29 August 2007
Paraguay	Rubén Ramírez Lezcano	22 August 2006
Peru	José Antonio García Belaúnde	28 July 2006
Philippines	Alberto Romulo	18 August 2004
Poland	Radosław Sikorski	16 November 2007
Portugal	Luís Amado	3 July 2006
Qatar	Sheikh Hamad ibn Jaber Al Thani	1 September 1992
Romania	Lazăr Comănescu	14 April 2008
Russia	Sergey Lavrov	9 March 2004
Rwanda	Rosemary Museminari	8 March 2008
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Timothy Harris	10 August 2001
Saint Lucia	Stephenson King	6 June 2007
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Sir Louis Straker	8 December 2005
San Marino	Fiorenzo Stolfi	27 July 2006
Samoa	Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi	23 November 1998
São Tomé and Príncipe	Ovídio Manuel Barbosa Pequeno	20 November 2007
Saudi Arabia	Prince Sa'ud al-Faysal	13 October 1975
Senegal	Cheikh Tidiane Gadio	5 April 2000
Serbia	Vuk Jeremić	15 May 2007
Seychelles	Patrick Pillay	12 February 2005
Sierra Leone	Zainab Bangura	23 October 2007
Singapore	George Yeo	12 August 2004
Slovakia	Ján Kubiš	4 July 2006
Slovenia	Dimitrij Rupel	3 December 2004
Solomon Islands	William Haomae	22 December 2007
Somalia	Ali Ahmed Jamal	5 January 2008
South Africa	Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma	17 June 1999
Spain	Miguel Ángel Moratinos	18 May 2004
Sri Lanka	Rohitha Bogollagama	28 January 2007
Sudan	Deng Alor	16 October 2007
Suriname	Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk	1 September 2005
Swaziland	Moses Mathendele Dlamini	23 February 2006
Sweden	Carl Bildt	6 October 2006
Switzerland	Micheline Calmy-Rey	1 January 2003
Syria	Walid Muallem	11 February 2006
Republic of China (Taiwan)	James C. F. Huang	25 January 2006
Tajikistan	Hamrokhon Zarifi	1 December 2006
Tanzania	Bernard Membe	11 January 2007
Thailand	Noppadon Pattama	6 February 2008
Togo	Léopold Gnininvi	13 December 2007
Tonga	Sonatane Tu'a Taumoepeau Tupou	2 September 2004
Trinidad and Tobago	Paula Gopee-Scoon	7 November 2007
Tunisia	Abdelwahab Abdallah	17 August 2005
Turkey	Ali Babacan	29 August 2007
Turkmenistan	Rashid Meredov	7 July 2001
Tuvalu	Apisai Ielemia	14 August 2004
Uganda	Sam Kutesa	13 January 2005
Ukraine	Volodymyr Ohryzko	18 December 2007
United Arab Emirates	Sheikh Abdullah ibn Zaid Al Nahayan	9 February 2006
United Kingdom	David Miliband	28 June 2007
United States	Condoleezza Rice	26 January 2005
Uruguay	Gonzalo Fernández	3 March 2008
Uzbekistan	Vladimir Norov	12 July 2006
Vanuatu	George Wells	29 July 2007
Venezuela	Nicolás Maduro Moros	9 August 2006
Vietnam	Phạm Gia Khiêm	28 June 2006
Western Sahara (SADR)	Mohamed Salem Ould Salek	21 January 1998
Yemen	Abou Bakr al-Kerbi	4 April 2001
Zambia	Kabinga Pande	22 August 2007
Zimbabwe	Simbarashe Mumbengegwi	15 April 2005

[edit] Unrecognized Countries and Disputed Territories

Country	Name	Since
Abkhazia	Sergey Shamba	2004
Brussels-Capital Region	Guy Vanhengel	2000
Cook Islands	Wilkie Rassmussen	2005
Faroe Islands	Høgni Hoydal	5 February 2008
Flanders	Geert Bourgeois	20 July 2004
French Polynesia	Gaston Tong Sang	15 April 2008
Greenland	Aleqa Hammond	1 July 2007
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria	Usmane Ferzauli ^[2]	2007
Nagorno-Karabakh	Georgy Petrosyan	2005
Netherlands Antilles	Emily de Jongh-Elhage	26 March 2006
Niue	Young Vivian	2002
Northern Cyprus	Turgay Avci	25 September 2006
Palestine	Salam Fayyad	17 June 2007
Somaliland	Abdillahi Mohamed Duale	2006
South Ossetia	Murat Dzhioyev	2002 ?
South Ossetia	Maia Chigoyeva-Tsaboshvili (alternative government)	2006
Transnistria	Valery Litskay	2000
Wallonia	Marie-Dominique Simonet	2004

[edit] Sui generis entities

Entity	Name	Since
European Union	Dimitrij Rupel, Slovenia (Council)	1 January 2008
	Javier Solana, Spain (CFSP)	1999
	Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austria (Commission)	2004
French Community of Belgium	Marie-Dominique Simonet	2004
Sovereign Military Order of Malta	Jean-Pierre Mazery	16 April 2005