This is a list of current foreign ministers of the 193 United Nations member states as well as the Holy See (Vatican City) and the State of Palestine.
Foreign ministers of sovereign countries with limited recognition, some alternative governments, some dependent territories and some autonomous administrative divisions are included in separate tables.
Generally recognized sovereign states
State | Historical list of foreign ministers | Current foreign minister | Party | Assumed office |
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Afghanistan | List | Mohammad Hanif Atmar[1] (acting) | Truth and Justice | 4 April 2020 |
Albania | List | Olta Xhaçka | Socialist Party of Albania | 31 December 2020 |
Algeria | List | Sabri Boukadoum | Independent | 2 April 2019 |
Andorra | List | Maria Ubach i Font | Democrats for Andorra | 17 July 2017 |
Angola | List | Tete António | 7 April 2020 | |
Antigua and Barbuda | List | E.P. Chet Greene | Antigua Labour Party | 21 March 2018 |
Argentina | List | Felipe Solá | Justicialist Party | 10 December 2019 |
Armenia | List | Ara Ayvazyan | Independent | 18 November 2020 |
Australia | List | Marise Payne | Liberal Party of Australia | 28 August 2018 |
Austria | List | Alexander Schallenberg | Independent | 3 June 2019 |
Azerbaijan | List | Jeyhun Bayramov | Independent | 16 July 2020 |
Bahamas | List | Darren Henfield | Free National Movement | 15 May 2017 |
Bahrain | List | Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani | N/A[2] | 11 February 2020 |
Bangladesh | List | Abulkalam Abdul Momen | Bangladesh Awami League | 6 January 2019 |
Barbados | List | Jerome Walcott | Barbados Labour Party | 27 May 2018 |
Belarus | List | Vladimir Makei | Independent | 20 August 2012 |
Belgium | List | Sophie Wilmès | Reformist Movement | 1 October 2020 |
Belize | List | Eamon Courtenay | 13 November 2020 | |
Benin | List | Aurélien Agbénonci | 6 April 2016 | |
Bhutan | List | Tandi Dorji | Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa | 7 November 2018 |
Bolivia | List | Rogelio Mayta | Movement for Socialism | 9 November 2020 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | List | Bisera Turković | Party of Democratic Action | 23 December 2019 |
Botswana | List | Lemogang Kwape | 26 August 2020 | |
Brazil | Carlos Alberto França | Independent | 29 March 2021 | |
Brunei | Hassanal Bolkiah (monarch) (Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade) | N/A[2] | 22 October 2015 | |
Erywan Yusof (Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade) | 31 January 2018 | |||
Bulgaria | List | Svetlan Stoev | 12 May 2021 | |
Burkina Faso | List | Alpha Barry | 12 January 2016 | |
Burundi | List | Albert Shingiro | 28 June 2020 | |
Cambodia | List | Prak Sokhon | Cambodian People's Party | 5 April 2016 |
Cameroon | List | Lejeune Mbella Mbella | Cameroon People's Democratic Movement | 2 October 2015 |
Canada | List | Marc Garneau | Liberal Party | 12 January 2021 |
Cape Verde | List | Rui Alberto de Figueiredo Soares | 14 January 2021 | |
Central African Republic | List | Sylvie Baïpo-Temon | Independent | 14 December 2018 |
Chad | List | Mahamat Zene Cherif | 2 May 2021 | |
Chile | List | Andrés Allamand | National Renewal | 28 July 2020 |
China | List | Wang Yi | Communist Party of China | 16 March 2013 |
Colombia | List | Marta Lucía Ramírez | 19 May 2021 | |
Comoros | List | Dhoihir Dhoulkamal | 28 September 2020 | |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | List | Christophe Lutundula | 27 April 2021 | |
Congo, Republic of the | List | Jean-Claude Gakosso | Congolese Party of Labour | 10 August 2015 |
Costa Rica | List | Rodolfo Solano | 3 February 2020 | |
Croatia | List | Gordan Grlić-Radman | Croatian Democratic Union | 19 July 2019 |
Cuba | List | Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla | Communist Party of Cuba | 2 March 2009 |
Cyprus | List | Nikos Christodoulides | Democratic Rally | 1 March 2018 |
Czechia | List | Jakub Kulhánek | 21 April 2021 | |
Denmark | List | Jeppe Kofod | Socialdemokratiet | 12 April 2021 |
Djibouti | List | Mahamoud Ali Youssouf | Independent | 22 May 2005 |
Dominica | List | Kenneth Darroux | 17 December 2019 | |
Dominican Republic | List | Roberto Álvarez Gil | 16 August 2020 | |
Ecuador | List | Mauricio Montalvo | 24 May 2021 | |
Egypt | List | Sameh Shoukry | Independent | 17 June 2014 |
El Salvador | List | Alexandra Hill Tinoco | 1 June 2019 | |
Equatorial Guinea | List | Simeón Oyono Esono Angüe | Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea | 6 February 2018 |
Eritrea | List | Osman Saleh Mohammed | People's Front for Democracy and Justice | 18 April 2007 |
Estonia | List | Eva-Maria Liimets | Independent | 26 January 2021 |
Eswatini | List | Thuli Dladla | 2 November 2018 | |
Ethiopia | List | Demeke Mekonnen | 8 November 2020 | |
Fiji | List | Frank Bainimarama (prime minister) | FijiFirst | 17 April 2019 |
Finland | List | Pekka Haavisto | Green League | 6 June 2019 |
France | List | Jean-Yves Le Drian | Independent, nominated by the party La République En Marche! | 17 May 2017 |
Gabon | List | Pacôme Moubelet-Boubeya | Gabonese Democratic Party | 17 July 2020 |
Gambia, The | List | Mamadou Tangara | United Democratic Party | 29 June 2018 |
Georgia | List | Davit Zalkaliani | Georgian Dream | 20 June 2018 |
Germany | List | Heiko Maas | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 14 March 2018 |
Ghana | List | Shirley Ayorkor Botchway | New Patriotic Party | 27 January 2017 |
Greece | List | Nikos Dendias | New Democracy | 9 July 2019 |
Grenada | List | Oliver Joseph | 5 October 2020 | |
Guatemala | List | Pedro Brolo | Vamos | 14 January 2020 |
Guinea | List | Ibrahima Khalil Kaba | 29 January 2021 | |
Guinea-Bissau | List | Suzi Barbosa | 2 March 2020 | |
Guyana | List | Hugh Todd | 5 August 2020 | |
Haiti | List | Claude Joseph | 4 February 2020 | |
Holy See | List | Archbishop Paul Gallagher | N/A[2] | 8 November 2014 |
Honduras | List | Lisandro Rosales Banegas | 23 July 2019 | |
Hungary | List | Péter Szijjártó | Fidesz | 23 September 2014 |
Iceland | List | Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson | Independence Party | 11 January 2017 |
India | List | Subrahmanyam Jaishankar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 31 May 2019 |
Indonesia | List | Retno Marsudi | Independent | 27 October 2014 |
Iran | List | Mohammad Javad Zarif | Independent | 15 August 2013 |
Iraq | List | Fuad Hussein | Kurdistan Democratic Party | 6 June 2020 |
Ireland | List | Simon Coveney | Fine Gael | 14 June 2017 |
Israel | List | Gabi Ashkenazi | 17 May 2020 | |
Italy | List | Luigi Di Maio | Five Stars Movement | 5 September 2019 |
Ivory Coast | List | Kandia Camara | 6 April 2021 | |
Jamaica | List | Kamina Johnson-Smith | Jamaica Labour Party | 7 March 2016 |
Japan | List | Toshimitsu Motegi | Liberal Democratic Party | 11 September 2019 |
Jordan | List | Ayman Safadi | Independent | 15 January 2017 |
Kazakhstan | List | Mukhtar Tleuberdi | Nur Otan | 18 September 2019 |
Kenya | List | Raychelle Omamo | 14 January 2020 | |
Kiribati | Taneti Mamau (president) | Tobwaan Kiribati Party | 15 March 2016 | |
Kuwait | List | Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al Muhammad Al Sabah | N/A[2] | 17 December 2019 |
Kyrgyzstan | List | Ruslan Kazakbayev | 14 October 2020 | |
Laos | List | Saleumxay Kommasith | Lao People's Revolutionary Party | 19 April 2016 |
Latvia | List | Edgars Rinkēvičs | Unity | 25 October 2011 |
Lebanon | List | Zeina Akar (acting) | 19 May 2021 | |
Lesotho | List | Matsepo Ramakoae | 21 May 2020 | |
Liberia | List | Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. | 6 October 2020 | |
Libya | List | Najla Mangoush | Independent | 15 March 2021 |
Liechtenstein | Dominique Hasler | 25 March 2021 | ||
Lithuania | List | Gabrielius Landsbergis | Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats | 11 December 2020 |
Luxembourg | List | Jean Asselborn | Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party | 21 July 2004 |
Madagascar | List | Djacoba Liva Tehindrazanarivelo | 29 January 2020 | |
Malawi | List | Eisenhower Mkaka | Malawi Congress Party | 8 July 2020 |
Malaysia | List | Hishammuddin Hussein | United Malays National Organisation | 9 March 2020 |
Maldives | List | Abdulla Shahid | 17 November 2018 | |
Mali | List | Vacant | 25 May 2021 | |
Malta | List | Evarist Bartolo | Labour Party | 15 January 2020 |
Marshall Islands | Casten Nemra | 13 January 2020 | ||
Mauritania | List | Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed | 11 June 2018 | |
Mauritius | List | Alan Ganoo | 6 February 2021 | |
Mexico | List | Marcelo Ebrard | National Regeneration Movement | 1 December 2018 |
Federated States of Micronesia | Kandhi A. Elieisar | N/A[2] | 3 December 2019 | |
Moldova | List | Aureliu Ciocoi | Independent | 9 November 2020 |
Monaco | Laurent Anselmi | Independent | 21 October 2019 | |
Mongolia | List | Batmunkh Battsetseg | 29 January 2021 | |
Montenegro | List | Đorđe Radulović | Independent | 4 December 2020 |
Morocco | List | Nasser Bourita | Independent | 5 April 2017 |
Mozambique | List | Verónica Macamo | 17 January 2020 | |
Myanmar | List | Wunna Maung Lwin | Independent | 1 February 2021 |
Namibia | List | Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah | South West African People's Organisation | 4 December 2012 |
Nauru | Lionel Aingimea (president) | Independent | 28 August 2013 | |
Nepal | List | Pradip Kumar Gyawali | Nepal Communist Party | 14 March 2018 |
Netherlands | List | Sigrid Kaag (acting) | Democrats 66 | 25 May 2021 |
New Zealand | List | Nanaia Mahuta | New Zealand Labour Party | 6 November 2020 |
Nicaragua | List | Denis Moncada | 16 January 2017 | |
Niger | List | Hassoumi Massoudou | Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism | 7 April 2021 |
Nigeria | List | Geoffrey Onyeama | All Progressives Congress | 11 November 2015 |
North Korea | List | Ri Son-gwon | Workers' Party of Korea | 19 January 2020 |
North Macedonia | List | Bujar Osmani | Democratic Union for Integration | 30 August 2020 |
Norway | List | Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide | Conservative Party | 20 October 2017 |
Oman | List | Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Al Busaidi | N/A[2] | 26 August 2020 |
Pakistan | List | Shah Mehmood Qureshi | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | 20 August 2018 |
Palau | Uduch Sengebau Senior | N/A[2] | 21 January 2021 | |
Palestine | List | Riyad al-Maliki [3] | Independent | 19 May 2009 (Since 2007 for the Palestinian Authority [4]) |
Panama | List | Érika Mouynes | Independent | 2 December 2020 |
Papua New Guinea | List | Soroi Eoe | People's National Congress | 20 December 2020 |
Paraguay | List | Euclides Acevedo | 25 January 2021 | |
Peru | List | Allan Wagner Tizón | Independent | 15 February 2021 |
Philippines | List | Teodoro Locsin Jr. | PDP–Laban | 17 October 2018 |
Poland | List | Zbigniew Rau | Law and Justice | 26 August 2020 |
Portugal | List | Augusto Santos Silva | Socialist Party | 26 November 2015 |
Qatar | List | Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani | N/A[2] | 27 January 2016 |
Romania | List | Bogdan Aurescu | Independent | 4 November 2019 |
Russian Federation | List | Sergey Lavrov | United Russia | 9 March 2004 |
Rwanda | List | Vincent Biruta | Independent | 4 November 2019 |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | List | Mark Brantley | Concerned Citizens' Movement | 22 February 2015 |
Saint Lucia | List | Allen Chastanet (prime minister) | United Workers Party | 14 June 2016 |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | List | Ralph Gonsalves (prime minister) | Unity Labour Party | 10 November 2020 |
Samoa | List | Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi (prime minister) or Naomi Mataʻafa (prime minister) | Human Rights Protection Party Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi | 23 November 1998 24 May 2021 |
San Marino | Luca Beccari | PDCS | 8 January 2020 | |
São Tomé and Príncipe | List | Edite Ten Juá | 19 September 2020 | |
Saudi Arabia | List | Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud | N/A[2] | 29 October 2019 |
Senegal | List | Aïssata Tall Sall | 1 November 2020 | |
Serbia | List | Nikola Selaković | SNS | 28 October 2020 |
Seychelles | List | Sylvestre Radegonde | 16 November 2020 | |
Sierra Leone | List | David J. Francis | 30 April 2021 | |
Singapore | List | Vivian Balakrishnan | People's Action Party | 1 October 2015 |
Slovakia | List | Ivan Korčok | Freedom and Solidarity | 1 April 2021 |
Slovenia | List | Anže Logar | SDS | 13 March 2020 |
Solomon Islands | List | Jeremiah Manele | People's Alliance Party | 25 April 2019 |
Somalia | List | Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud | 19 November 2020 | |
South Africa | List | Naledi Pandor | African National Congress | 29 May 2019 |
South Korea | List | Chung Eui-yong | 9 February 2021 | |
South Sudan | List | Beatrice Wani-Noah | 12 March 2020 | |
Spain | List | Arancha González Laya | Independent | 13 January 2020 |
Sri Lanka | List | Dinesh Gunawardena | Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 22 November 2019 |
Sudan | List | Mariam al-Mahdi | 8 February 2021 | |
Suriname | List | Albert Ramdin | Progressive Reform Party | 16 July 2020[5] |
Sweden | List | Ann Linde | Swedish Social Democratic Party | 10 September 2019 |
Switzerland | List | Ignazio Cassis | FDP.The Liberals | 1 November 2017 |
Syria | List | Faisal Mekdad | 22 November 2020 | |
Tajikistan | List | Sirodjidin Aslov | 29 November 2013 | |
Tanzania | List | Liberata Mulamula | Chama Cha Mapinduzi | 30 March 2021 |
Thailand | List | Don Pramudwinai | Independent | 20 August 2015 |
Timor-Leste | List | Adaljíza Magno | Fretilin | 24 June 2020 |
Togo | List | Robert Dussey | 17 September 2013 | |
Tonga | List | Pohiva Tu'i'onetoa (prime minister) | Independent | 9 October 2019 |
Trinidad and Tobago | List | Amery Browne | 19 August 2020 | |
Tunisia | List | Othman Jerandi | Independent | 2 September 2020 |
Turkey | List | Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu | Justice and Development Party | 24 November 2015 |
Turkmenistan | List | Raşit Meredow | Democratic Party of Turkmenistan | 7 July 2001 |
Tuvalu | Simon Kofe | N/A[2] | September 2019 | |
Uganda | List | Sam Kutesa | National Resistance Movement | 13 January 2005 |
Ukraine | List | Dmytro Kuleba | 4 February 2020 | |
United Arab Emirates | Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan | N/A[2] | 9 February 2006 | |
United Kingdom | List | Dominic Raab | Conservative Party | 24 July 2019 |
United States | List | Antony Blinken | Democratic Party | 26 January 2021 |
Uruguay | List | Francisco Bustillo | 6 July 2020 | |
Uzbekistan | List | Abdulaziz Kamilov | 13 January 2012 | |
Vanuatu | List | Mark Ati | 20 April 2020 | |
Venezuela | List | Jorge Arreaza | United Socialist Party of Venezuela | 2 August 2017 |
Vietnam | List | Bùi Thanh Sơn | Communist Party of Vietnam | 8 April 2021 |
Yemen | List | Ahmad Awad Bin Mubarak | Independent | 18 December 2020 |
Zambia | List | Joseph Malanji | Patriotic Front | 8 January 2018 |
Zimbabwe | List | Frederick Shava | 8 February 2021 |
Other states
The following states control their territory and are recognized by at least one UN member state.
State | Historical list of foreign ministers | Current foreign minister | Party | Assumed office |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abkhazia | List | Daur Kove | 4 October 2016 | |
Republic of China (Taiwan) | List | Joseph Wu | Democratic Progressive Party | 26 February 2018 |
Cook Islands | List | Mark Brown (prime minister) | Independent | 8 October 2020 |
Kosovo | List | Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz | Guxo | 22 March 2021 |
Niue | List | Dalton Tagelagi (prime minister) | Independent | 11 June 2020 |
Northern Cyprus | List | Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu | National Unity Party | 9 December 2020 |
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | Mohamed Salem Ould Salek | 21 January 1998 | ||
South Ossetia | List | Dmitry Medoyev | 25 May 2017 |
The following states/governments control their territory, but are not recognized by any UN member states.
State | Historical list of foreign ministers | Current foreign minister | Party | Assumed office |
---|---|---|---|---|
Artsakh | David Babayan | 4 January 2021 | ||
Donetsk People's Republic | Natalya Nikonorova [6] | 22 February 2016 | ||
Lugansk People's Republic | Vladislav Deinevo [7] | 12 September 2017 | ||
Somaliland (Republic of Somaliland) | List | Yasin Haji Mohamoud | Peace, Unity, and Development Party | 10 November 2018 |
Transnistria | List | Vitaly Ignatyev [8] | 14 September 2015 |
Other governments
These alternative governments are recognized as a sovereign state by at least one UN member.
State | Historical list of foreign ministers | Current foreign minister | Party | Assumed office |
---|---|---|---|---|
National Unity Government of Myanmar | List | Zin Mar Aung | 16 April 2021 | |
Supreme Political Council of Yemen | List | Hisham Sharaf | 28 November 2016 |
The alternative governments are not recognized by any UN member states.
State | Historical list of foreign ministers | Current foreign minister | Party | Assumed office |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria [9] | Usman Ferzauli | 2007 | ||
Tibet [10] | Lobsang Sangay (prime minister) | 28 February 2016 |
Sui generis entities
Entity | Historical list of foreign ministers | Current foreign minister | European Party | National Party | Assumed office |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
European Union | List | Josep Borrell | Party of European Socialists | 1 November 2019 | |
Sovereign Military Order of Malta | Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager | N/A[2] | N/A[2] | 27 January 2017 |
Dependent territories
Territory | Historical list of foreign ministers | Current foreign minister | Party | Assumed office |
---|---|---|---|---|
Faroe Islands | Jenis av Rana | 16 September 2019 | ||
French Polynesia | Édouard Fritch (president) | 12 September 2014 | ||
Greenland | Pele Broberg | 23 April 2021 | ||
Guernsey | Jonathan Le Tocq | 6 May 2016 | ||
Jersey | Ian Gorst | 7 June 2018 | ||
New Caledonia | Thierry Santa (President of the Government) | 9 July 2019 | ||
Puerto Rico | Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez | 2 January 2021 | ||
Tokelau | Kelihiano Kalolo (prime minister) | 8 March 2020 |
Autonomous administrative divisions
Autonomous region | Historical list of foreign ministers | Current foreign minister | Party | Assumed office |
---|---|---|---|---|
Brussels-Capital Region | Pascal Smet | 20 July 2019 | ||
Catalonia | Victòria Alsina Burgués | 26 May 2021 | ||
Flanders | Jan Jambon (Minister-President) | 2 October 2019 | ||
Gagauzia | Vitaliy Vlah | 30 April 2015 | ||
Kurdistan | Safeen Muhsin Dizayee | July 2019 | ||
Quebec | Nadine Girault | 18 October 2018 | ||
Scotland | List | Angus Robertson | [ | 21 May 2021 |
Walloon Region | Elio Di Rupo (Minister-President) | 13 September 2019 |
See also
- Category:Lists of foreign ministers by year
- Lists of office-holders
- List of foreign ministers in 2021
- List of current presidents of legislatures
- List of current heads of state and government
- List of current permanent representatives to the United Nations
- List of female foreign ministers
Notes
- ^ http://webtv.un.org/search/-2020-afghanistan-conference-press-conference-closing-of-conference-geneva-24-november-2020/6212036541001/?term=Mohammad%20Hanif%20Atmar&sort=date
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Foreign Ministers with the party field set to N/A indicates that their country has either banned political parties or that they do not have them.
- ^ Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
- ^ Palestinian politics
- ^ "Het nieuwe regeerteam dat donderdag aantreedt". Star Nieuws (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ^ Acting to 3 December 2018.
- ^ Acting to 28 December 2018.
- ^ Acting to 30 August 2016 and from 17 December 2016 to 30 January 2017.
- ^ Government in exile in opposition to the emir's government, which itself is unrecognized.
- ^ Government in exile.