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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 unrecognised sovereign countries are included in a separate table.

Female ministers are shown in bold font.

Sovereign states

Country Name Since
 Afghanistan (list of ministers) Zalmai Rassoul 18 January 2010
 Albania (list of ministers) Aldo Bumçi 4 April 2013
 Algeria Mourad Medelci 4 June 2007
 Andorra (list of ministers) Gilbert Saboya Sunyé 12 May 2011
 Angola (list of ministers) Georges Rebelo 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) Bob Carr 13 March 2012
 Austria (list of ministers) Michael Spindelegger 2 December 2008
 Azerbaijan (list of ministers) Elmar Məmmədyarov 2 April 2004
 Bahamas Fred Mitchell 11 May 2012
 Bahrain (list of ministers) 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 Vladimir Makei 20 August 2012
 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 Lyonpo Rinzin Dorji 29 July 2013
 Bolivia David Choquehuanca 23 January 2006
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdžija 10 February 2012
 Botswana Phandu Skelemani 1 April 2008
 Brazil Antonio Patriota 1 January 2011
 Brunei HRH Prince Mohamed Bolkiah 1 January 1984
 Bulgaria Kristian Vigenin 29 May 2013
 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 Léonie Banga-Bothy 13 June 2013
 Chad Moussa Faki 23 April 2008
 Chile (list of ministers) Alfredo Moreno Charme 11 March 2010
 People's Republic of China (list of ministers) Wang Yi 16 March 2013
 Colombia (list of ministers) María Ángela Holguín 7 August 2010
 Comoros El-Anrif Said Hassane 13 July 2013
 Democratic Republic of the Congo (list of ministers) Raymond Tshibanda 26 April 2012
 Republic of the Congo Basile Ikouébé 31 May 2007
 Costa Rica Enrique Castillo 14 September 2011
 Côte d'Ivoire Charles Koffi Diby 22 Novembre 2012
 Croatia (list of ministers) Vesna Pusić 23 December 2011
 Cuba (list of ministers) Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla 2 March 2009
 Cyprus (list of ministers) Ioannis Kasoulidis 1 March 2013
 Czech Republic (list of ministers) Jan Kohout 10 July 2013
 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 José Luís Guterres 8 August 2012
 Ecuador Ricardo Patiño 28 January 2010
 Egypt (list of ministers) Nabil Fahmy 16 July 2013
 El Salvador Jaime Miranda 14 August 2013
 Equatorial Guinea Agapito Mba Mokuy 22 May 2012
 Eritrea Osman Saleh Mohammed 18 April 2007
 Estonia (list of ministers) Urmas Paet 13 April 2005
 Ethiopia (list of ministers) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus 29 November 2012
 Fiji (list of ministers) Ratu Inoke Kubuabola 3 August 2009
 Finland (list of ministers) Erkki Tuomioja 22 June 2011
 France (list of ministers) Laurent Fabius 16 May 2012
 Gabon (list of ministers) Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet 28 February 2012
 Gambia Susan Waffa-Ogoo 1 December 2012
 Georgia (list of ministers) Maia Panjikidze 25 Octobre 2012
 Germany (list of ministers) Guido Westerwelle 28 October 2009
 Ghana (list of ministers) Hanna Tetteh 30 January 2013
 Greece (list of ministers) Evangelos Venizelos 25 June 2013
 Grenada Nickolas Steele 3 March 2013
 Guatemala Fernando Carrera 14 January 2013
 Guinea François Lonseny Fall 5 October 2012
 Guinea-Bissau Fernando Delfim da Silva 6 June 2013
 Guyana Carolyn Rodrigues 10 April 2008
 Haiti (list of ministers) Pierre Richard Casimir 6 August 2012
 Honduras Mireya Agüero de Corrales 2 May 2013
 Holy See (Vatican City) (list of ministers) Archbishop Dominique Mamberti 15 September 2006
 Hungary (list of ministers) János Martonyi 29 May 2010
 Iceland (list of ministers) Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson 24 May 2013
 India (list of ministers) Salman Khurshid 28 October 2012
 Indonesia Marty Natalegawa 22 October 2009
 Iran (list of ministers) Mohammad Javad Zarif 15 August 2013
 Iraq (list of ministers) Hoshyar Zebari 3 September 2003
 Ireland (list of ministers) Eamon Gilmore 9 March 2011
 Israel (list of ministers) Benjamin Netanyahu (prime minister) 18 December 2012
 Italy (list of ministers) Emma Bonino 28 April 2013
 Jamaica Arnold Nicholson 6 January 2012
 Japan (list of ministers) Fumio Kishida 26 December 2012
 Jordan Nasser Judeh 23 February 2009
 Kazakhstan (list of ministers) Erlan Idrisov 28 September 2012
 Kenya (list of ministers) Amina Mohamed 19 May 2013
 Kiribati Anote Tong (president) 4 July 2003
 North Korea Pak Ui-chun 18 May 2007
 South Korea (list of ministers) Yun Byung-se 11 March 2013
 Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah 23 October 2011
 Kyrgyzstan Erlan Abdyldayev 5 September 2012
 Laos Thongloun Sisoulith 8 June 2006
 Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs 25 October 2011
 Lebanon (list of ministers) Adnan Mansour 13 June 2011
 Lesotho Mohlabi Tsekoa 2 March 2007
 Liberia (list of ministers) Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan 10 February 2012
 Libya (list of ministers) Mohammed Abdulaziz 26 November 2012
 Liechtenstein Aurelia Frick 25 March 2009
 Lithuania (list of ministers) Linas Antanas Linkevičius 13 December 2012
 Luxembourg (list of ministers) Jean Asselborn 21 July 2004
 Macedonia Nikola Poposki 28 July 2011
 Madagascar Pierrot Rajaonarivelo 21 November 2011
 Malaysia Dato' Sri Anifah Aman 10 April 2009
Malawi Ephraim Chiume 26 April 2012
 Maldives Asim Ahmed (acting) 26 August 2013
 Mali Tiéman Coulibaly 20 August 2012
 Malta (list of ministers) George William Vella 13 March 2013
 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) Jose Antonio Meade 1 December 2012
 Federated States of Micronesia Lorin S. Robert 14 July 2007
 Moldova (list of ministers) Natalia Gherman 31 May 2013
 Monaco José Badia 1 January 2011
 Mongolia Luvsanvandan Bold 19 August 2012
 Montenegro (list of ministers) Igor Lukšić 4 December 2012
 Morocco Saad-Eddine El Othmani 3 January 2012
 Mozambique Oldemiro Balói 10 March 2008
 Namibia (list of ministers) Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah 4 December 2012
 Nauru Baron Waqa (president) 13 June 2013
   Nepal Madhav Prasad Ghimire 14 March 2013
 Netherlands (list of ministers) Frans Timmermans 5 November 2012
 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) Espen Barth Eide 21 September 2012
 Oman Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah 18 February 1982
 Pakistan (list of ministers) Nawaz Sharif (prime minister) 7 June 2013
 Palau Billy Kuartei 31 July 2013
 Palestine[1] (list of ministers) Riyad al-Maliki 1 September 2007
 Panama Fernando Núñez Fábrega 28 February 2013
 Papua New Guinea Rimbink Pato 9 August 2012
 Paraguay Eladio Loizaga 15 August 2013
 Peru Eda Rivas 15 May 2013
 Philippines (list of ministers) Albert del Rosario 2 March 2011
 Poland (list of ministers) Radosław Sikorski 16 November 2007
 Portugal (list of ministers) Rui Machete 23 July 2013
 Qatar Khalid al-Attiyah 26 Juin 2013
 Romania (list of ministers) Titus Corlățean 6 August 2012
 Russia (list of ministers) Sergey Lavrov 9 March 2004
 Rwanda Louise Mushikiwabo 3 December 2009
 Saint Kitts and Nevis Patrice Nisbett 5 February 2013
 Saint Lucia Alva Baptiste 6 December 2011
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Douglas Slater 19 December 2010
 San Marino Pasquale Valentini 5 December 2012
 Samoa Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi (prime minister) 23 November 1998
 São Tomé and Príncipe (list of ministers) Natália Pedro da Costa Umbelina Neto 12 December 2012
 Saudi Arabia (list of ministers) HRH Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud 13 October 1975
 Senegal (list of ministers) Mankeur Ndiaye 29 October 2012
 Serbia (list of ministers) Ivan Mrkić 27 July 2012
 Seychelles (list of ministers) Jean-Paul Adam 8 June 2010
 Sierra Leone (list of ministers) Samura Kamara 17 December 2012
 Singapore (list of ministers) K. Shanmugam 21 May 2011
 Slovakia (list of ministers) Miroslav Lajčák 4 April 2012
 Slovenia (list of ministers) Karl Erjavec 10 February 2012
 Solomon Islands Clay Forau Soalaoi 28 February 2012
 Somalia Foosiya Yuusuf Xaaji Aadan 13 November 2012
 South Africa (list of ministers) Maite Nkoana-Mashabane 11 May 2009
 South Sudan Barnaba Marial Benjamin 27 July 2013
 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 Winston Dookeran 22 June 2012
 Tunisia (list of ministers) Othman Jerandi 14 March 2013
 Turkey (list of ministers) Ahmet Davutoğlu 1 May 2009
 Turkmenistan Raşit Meredow 7 July 2001
 Tuvalu Taukelina Finikaso 5 August 2013
 Uganda Sam Kutesa 13 January 2005
 Ukraine (list of ministers) Leonid Kozhara 24 December 2012
 United Arab Emirates HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan 9 February 2006
 United Kingdom (list of ministers) William Hague 11 May 2010
 United States (list of ministers) John Kerry 1 February 2013
 Uruguay (list of ministers) Luis Almagro 1 March 2010
 Uzbekistan (list of ministers) Abdulaziz Komilov 13 January 2012
 Vanuatu Edward Natapei 23 March 2013
 Venezuela (list of ministers) Elías Jaua 15 January 2013
 Vietnam Phạm Bình Minh 3 August 2011
 Yemen Abou Bakr al-Kerbi 4 April 2001
 Zambia Wilbur Simuusa 13 August 2013
 Zimbabwe Simbarashe Mumbengegwi 15 April 2005

Unrecognized countries, autonomous regions

Country Name Since
 Abkhazia (list of ministers) Vyacheslav Chirikba 11 October 2011
 Brussels-Capital Region Guy Vanhengel 7 May 2013
 Cook Islands Henry Puna (prime minister) 25 July 2013
 Faroe Islands Kaj Leo Johannesen (prime minister) 14 November 2011
 Flanders Kris Peeters (prime minister) 2008
 French Polynesia Gaston Flosse (president) 17 May 2013
Gaza Strip [2] Ismail Haniya (prime minister) 2 September 2012
 Greenland Aleqa Hammond (prime minister) 5 April 2013
 Kosovo (list of ministers) Enver Hoxhaj 22 February 2011
 Kurdistan Falah Mustafa Bakir September 2006
 Nagorno-Karabakh Karen Mirzoyan 22 September 2012
 Niue Toke Talagi (prime minister) 7 June 2008
 Northern Cyprus Kutlay Erk 13 June 2013
State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas[3] (prime minister) 27 August 2009
 Puntland Daud Mohamed Omar 2010
 Quebec Jean-François Lisée 18 September 2012
 Scotland (list of ministers) Fiona Hyslop 1 December 2009
 Somaliland Abdillahi Mohamed Omer 29 July 2010
 South Ossetia David Sanakoyev 30 May 2012
 Taiwan (Republic of China) (list of ministers) David Lin 19 September 20012
 Tokelau Salesio Lui (prime minister) March 2013
 Transnistria Nina Shtanski 17 January 2012
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Western Sahara Mohamed Salem Ould Salek 21 January 1998
Wallonia Rudy Demotte (prime minister) 19 Jully 2009

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

  1. ^ The Palestinian Authority renamed itself the State of Palestine on 6 January 2013 (a move not recognized by Israel). Do not confuse with the "State of Palestine" proclaimed on 15 November 1988 by the Palestinian National Council (PNC) in Algiers which remains a putative state, de facto ineffective despite partial international recognition.
  2. ^ Government of Hamas in rebellion against the Palestinian National Authority
  3. ^ as Head of Political Department of Executive Committee of PLO

See also