List of current foreign ministers

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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
Flag of Taliban.svg Afghanistan List Amir Khan Muttaqi (acting) 7 September 2021
 Albania List Olta Xhaçka Socialist Party of Albania 31 December 2020
 Algeria List Ramtane Lamamra 2 April 2019
 Andorra List Maria Ubach i Font Democrats for Andorra 17 July 2017
 Angola List Tete António MPLA 7 July 2021
 Antigua and Barbuda List E.P. Chet Greene Antigua Labour Party 21 March 2018
 Argentina List Santiago Cafiero Justicialist Party 20 September 2021
 Armenia List Ararat Mirzoyan 19 August 2021
 Australia List Marise Payne Liberal Party of Australia 28 August 2018
 Austria List Alexander Schallenberg People's Party 6 December 2021
 Azerbaijan List Jeyhun Bayramov Independent 16 July 2020
 Bahamas List Fred Mitchell 20 September 2021
 Bahrain List Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani N/A[1] 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 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 26 August 2020
 Brazil Carlos Alberto França Independent 29 March 2021
 Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah (monarch) (Minister of Foreign Affairs) N/A[1] 22 October 2015
Erywan Yusof (Second Minister of Foreign Affairs) 31 January 2018
 Bulgaria List 13 December 2021
 Burkina Faso List vacant 24 January 2022
 Burundi List Albert Shingiro 28 June 2020
 Cambodia List Prak Sokhon Cambodian People's Party 5 April 2016
 Cameroon List  [fr] Cameroon People's Democratic Movement 2 October 2015
 Canada List Mélanie Joly Liberal Party of Canada 26 October 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 (acting) 6 February 2022
 China List Wang Yi Communist Party of China 16 March 2013
 Colombia List Marta Lucía Ramírez 19 May 2021
 Comoros List 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 Ioannis Kasoulidis 11 January 2021
 Czech Republic List Jan Lipavský Czech Pirate Party 17 December 2021
 Denmark List Jeppe Kofod Socialdemokratiet 27 June 2019
 Djibouti List Mahamoud Ali Youssouf Independent 22 May 2005
 Dominica List 17 December 2019
 Dominican Republic List  [es] 16 August 2020
 Ecuador List 3 January 2022
 Egypt List Sameh Shoukry Independent 17 June 2014
 El Salvador List Alexandra Hill Tinoco 1 June 2019
 Equatorial Guinea List  [es] 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 Annalena Baerbock Bündnis 90/Die Grünen 8 December 2021
 Ghana List Shirley Ayorkor Botchway New Patriotic Party 27 January 2017
 Greece List Nikos Dendias New Democracy 9 July 2019
 Grenada List New National Party (Grenada) 5 October 2020
 Guatemala List Mario Búcaro 1 February 2022
 Guinea List Morissanda Kouyaté 25 October 2021
 Guinea-Bissau List Suzi Barbosa 2 March 2020
 Guyana List Hugh Todd People's Progressive Party (Guyana) 5 August 2020
 Haiti List 24 November 2021
  Holy See List Archbishop Paul Gallagher N/A[1] 8 November 2014
 Honduras List  [es] 27 January 2022
 Hungary List Péter Szijjártó Fidesz 23 September 2014
 Iceland List Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir Independence Party 28 November 2021
 India List Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Bharatiya Janata Party 31 May 2019
 Indonesia List Retno Marsudi Independent 27 October 2014
 Iran List Hossein Amir-Abdollahian 25 August 2021
 Iraq List Fuad Hussein Kurdistan Democratic Party 6 June 2020
 Ireland List Simon Coveney Fine Gael 14 June 2017
 Israel List Yair Lapid Yesh Atid 13 June 2021
 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 Yoshimasa Hayashi 10 November 2021
 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 N/A[1] 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 Abdallah Bou Habib 10 September 2021
 Lesotho List Matsepo Ramakoae 21 May 2020
 Liberia List Coalition for Democratic Change 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 Patrick Rajoelina 15 August 2021
Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi List Nancy Tembo 28 January 2022
 Malaysia List Saifuddin Abdullah 27 August 2021
 Maldives List Abdulla Shahid 17 November 2018
 Mali List Abdoulaye Diop 11 June 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 N/A[1] 3 December 2019
 Moldova List Nicu Popescu 6 August 2021
 Monaco Isabelle Berro-Amadeï 17 January 2022
 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 Dr. Narayan Khadka Nepali Congress 22 September 2021
 Netherlands List Wopke Hoekstra Christian Democratic Appeal 10 January 2022
 New Zealand List Nanaia Mahuta New Zealand Labour Party 6 November 2020
 Nicaragua List  [es] 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 Anniken Huitfeldt 14 October 2021
 Oman List Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Al Busaidi N/A[1] 26 August 2020
 Pakistan List Shah Mehmood Qureshi Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 20 August 2018
 Palau 3 September 2021
 Palestine List Riyad al-Maliki[2] Independent 19 May 2009 (Since 2007 for the Palestinian Authority[3])
 Panama List Independent 2 December 2020
 Papua New Guinea List Soroi Eoe People's National Congress 20 December 2020
 Paraguay List 25 January 2021
 Peru List 1 February 2022
 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[1] 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 Alva Baptiste 5 August 2021
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines List Ralph Gonsalves (prime minister) Unity Labour Party 10 November 2020
 Samoa List Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa (prime minister) Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi 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[1] 29 October 2019
 Senegal List Aïssata Tall Sall Alliance for the Republic (Senegal) 1 November 2020
 Serbia List Nikola Selaković SNS 28 October 2020
 Seychelles List Sylvestre Radegonde 16 November 2020
 Sierra Leone List David J. Francis Sierra Leone People's Party 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 20 November 2021
 South Africa List Naledi Pandor African National Congress 29 May 2019
 South Korea List Chung Eui-yong 9 February 2021
 South Sudan List Mayiik Ayii Deng 9 September 2021
 Spain List José Manuel Albares Spanish Socialist Workers' Party 10 July 2021
 Sri Lanka List Gamini Lakshman Peiris 16 August 2021
 Sudan List (acting) 19 January 2022
 Suriname List Albert Ramdin Progressive Reform Party 16 July 2020[4]
 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 Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party 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 Fekitamoeloa ʻUtoikamanu 28 December 2021
 Trinidad and Tobago List People's National Movement 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[1] September 2019
 Uganda List Jeje Odongo 21 June 2021
 Ukraine List Dmytro Kuleba 4 February 2020
 United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan N/A[1] 9 February 2006
 United Kingdom List Liz Truss Conservative Party 15 September 2021
 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 20 April 2020
 Venezuela List United Socialist Party of Venezuela 19 August 2021
 Vietnam List Communist Party of Vietnam 8 April 2021
 Yemen List Ahmad Awad Bin Mubarak Independent 18 December 2020
 Zambia List Stanley Kakubo 7 September 2021
 Zimbabwe List Frederick Shava ZANU-PF 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 Inal Ardzinba 17 November 2021
 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 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 flag.png Donetsk People's Republic Natalya Nikonorova [5] 22 February 2016
Flag of the Lugansk People's Republic.svg Lugansk People's Republic Vladislav Deinevo [6] 12 September 2017
 Somaliland (Republic of Somaliland) List Yasin Haji Mohamoud Peace, Unity, and Development Party 10 November 2018
 Transnistria List [7] 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
Flag of Yemen.svg 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
Flag of Tibet.svg Tibet[8] 14 November 2021

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[1] N/A[1] 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 Múte Bourup Egede (prime minister) 27 September 2021
 Guernsey Jonathan Le Tocq 6 May 2016
 Jersey Ian Gorst 7 June 2018
 New Caledonia (President of the Government) 22 July 2021
 Puerto Rico Omar Marrero Díaz 13 July 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 26 May 2021
 Flanders Jan Jambon (Minister-President) 2 October 2019
Flag of Gagauzia.svg Gagauzia Vitaliy Vlah 30 April 2015
 Kurdistan July 2019
 Quebec Nadine Girault 18 October 2018
 Scotland List Angus Robertson SNP 21 May 2021
 Wallonia Elio Di Rupo (Minister-President) 13 September 2019

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l 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.
  2. ^ Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
  3. ^ Palestinian politics
  4. ^ "Het nieuwe regeerteam dat donderdag aantreedt". Star Nieuws (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  5. ^ Acting to 3 December 2018.
  6. ^ Acting to 28 December 2018.
  7. ^ Acting to 30 August 2016 and from 17 December 2016 to 30 January 2017.
  8. ^ Government in exile.
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