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.

[edit] 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)	Craig Emerson (acting)	22 February 2012
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)	Didier Reynders	6 December 2011
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	Zlatko Lagumdžija	10 February 2012
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	Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo	11 December 2011
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)	Vesna Pusić	23 December 2011
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)	Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet	28 February 2012
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	Harold Caballeros	14 January 2012
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	Arnold Nicholson	6 January 2012
Japan (list of ministers)	Kōichirō Gemba	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)	Ashour Bin Khayal	24 November 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	Pierrot Rajaonarivelo	21 November 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	Phillip H. Muller	10 January 2012
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	Saadeddine Othmani	3 January 2012
Mozambique	Oldemiro Balói	10 March 2008
Namibia (list of ministers)	Utoni Nujoma	21 March 2010
Nauru	Sprent Dabwido (president)	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)	Cristian Diaconescu	24 January 2012
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	Alva Baptiste	6 December 2011
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 (list of ministers)	Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz	13 October 1975
Senegal (list of ministers)	Madické Niang	1 October 2009
Serbia (list of ministers)	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 (list of ministers)	Mikuláš Dzurinda	9 July 2010
Slovenia (list of ministers)	Karl Erjavec	10 February 2012
Solomon Islands	Clay Forau Soalaoi	28 February 2012
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)	José García-Margallo y Marfil	22 December 2011
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)	Didier Burkhalter	1 January 2012
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)	Rafik Abdessalem	23 December 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)	Abdulaziz Komilov	13 January 2012
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	Given Lubinda	12 January 2012
Zimbabwe	Simbarashe Mumbengegwi	15 April 2005

[edit] Unrecognized countries, autonomous regions

Country	Name	Since
Abkhazia (list of ministers)	Maxim Gvinjia	26 February 2010
Brussels-Capital Region	Jean-Luc Vanraes	16 July 2009
Cook Islands	Tom Marsters	3 December 2010
Faroe Islands	Kaj Leo Johannesen (prime minister)	14 November 2011
Flanders	Kris Peeters (prime minister)	2008
French Polynesia	Oscar Temaru (president)	1 April 2011
Greenland	Kuupik Kleist (prime minister)	12 June 2009
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	11 August 2010
Scotland (list of ministers)	Fiona Hyslop	1 December 2009
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	Nina Shtansky	17 January 2012
Western Sahara	Mohamed Salem Ould Salek	21 January 1998