List of foreign ministers in 2016

This is a list of foreign ministers in 2016.

Africa

• Algeria - Ramtane Lamamra (2013–present)
• Angola - Georges Rebelo Chicoti (2010–present)
• Benin -
  1. Saliou Akadiri (2015–2016)
  2. Aurélien Agbénonci (2016–present)
• Botswana - Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi (2014–present)
• Burkina Faso -
  1. Moussa Nébié (2015–2016)
  2. Alpha Barry (2016–present)
• Burundi - Alain Aimé Nyamitwe (2015–present)
• Cameroon- Lejeune Mbella Mbella (2015–present)
• Cape Verde -
  1. Jorge Tolentino (2014–2016)
  2. Luís Felipe Tavares (2016–present)
• Central African Republic -
  1. Samuel Rangba (2015–2016)
  2. Charles Armel Doubane (2016–present)
• Chad - Moussa Faki (2008–present)
• Comoros - Abdoulkarim Mohamed (2015–present)
• Republic of Congo - Jean-Claude Gakosso (2015–present)
• Democratic Republic of Congo - Raymond Tshibanda (2012–present)
• Côte d'Ivoire -
  1. Charles Koffi Diby (2012–2016)
  2. Albert Toikeusse Mabri (2016–present)
• Djibouti - Mahamoud Ali Youssouf (2005–present)
• Egypt - Sameh Shoukry (2014–present)
• Equatorial Guinea - Agapito Mba Mokuy (2012–present)
• Eritrea - Osman Saleh Mohammed (2007–present)
• Ethiopia - Tedros Adhanom (2012–present)
• Gabon - Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet (2012–present)
• The Gambia - Neneh MacDouall-Gaye (2015–present)
• Ghana - Hanna Tetteh (2013–present)
• Guinea -
  1. François Lonseny Fall (2012–2016)
  2. Makalé Camara (2016–present)
• Guinea-Bissau - Artur Silva (2015–present)
• Kenya - Amina Mohamed (2013–present)
• Lesotho - Tlohang Sekhamane (2015–present)
• Liberia -
  1. Elias Shoniyin (acting) (2015–2016)
  2. Marjon Kamara (2016–present)
• Libya - disputed
  • Mohammed al-Dairi (2014–present) or
  • Mohamed Taha Siala (2016–present)
  • Ali Rahman Abou Zekok (2015–2016)
• Madagascar - Béatrice Atallah (2015–present)
• Malawi -
  1. George Chaponda (2014–2016)
  2. Francis Kasaila (2016–present)
• Mali - Abdoulaye Diop (2014–present)
• Mauritania -
  1. Hamadi Ould Meimou (2015–2016)
  2. Isselkou Ould Ahmed Izid Bih (2016–present)
• Mauritius -
  1. Étienne Sinatambou (2014–2016)
  2. Vishnu Lutchmeenaraidoo (2016–present)
• Morocco - Salaheddine Mezouar (2013–present)
  • Western Sahara - Mohamed Salem Ould Salek (1998–present)
• Mozambique - Oldemiro Balói (2008–present)
• Namibia - Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (2012–present)
• Niger -
  1. Aïchatou Boulama Kané (2015–2016)^[1]
  2. Ibrahim Yacouba (2016–present)
• Nigeria - Geoffrey Onyeama (2015–present)
• Rwanda - Louise Mushikiwabo (2009–present)
• São Tomé and Príncipe - Manuel Salvador dos Ramos (2014–present)
• Senegal - Mankeur Ndiaye (2012–present)
• Seychelles - Joel Morgan (2015–present)
• Sierra Leone - Samura Kamara (2012–present)
• Somalia - Abdisalam Omer (2015–present)
  • Somaliland - Mohamed Yonis (2013–present)
  • Puntland - Ali Ahmed Faatah (2014–present)
• South Africa - Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (2009–present)
• South Sudan -
  1. Barnaba Marial Benjamin (2013–2016)
  2. Bashir Gbandi (acting) (2016)
  3. Deng Alor (2016–present)
• Sudan - Ibrahim Ghandour (2015–present)
• Swaziland – Mgwagwa Gamedze (2013–present)
• Tanzania - Augustine Mahiga (2015–present)
• Togo - Robert Dussey (2013–present)
• Tunisia -
  1. Taïeb Baccouche (2015–2016)
  2. Khemaies Jhinaoui (2016–present)
• Uganda - Sam Kutesa (2005–present)
• Zambia - Harry Kalaba (2014–present)
• Zimbabwe - Simbarashe Mumbengegwi (2005–present)

Asia

• Afghanistan - Salahuddin Rabbani (2015–present)
• Armenia - Eduard Nalbandyan (2008–present)
• Azerbaijan - Elmar Mammadyarov (2004–present)
  • Nagorno-Karabakh - Karen Mirzoyan (2012–present)
• Bahrain - Sheikh Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah (2005–present)
• Bangladesh - Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali (2014–present)
• Bhutan - Damcho Dorji (2015-present)
• Brunei - Hassanal Bolkiah (2015–present)
• Cambodia -
  1. Hor Namhong (1998–2016)
  2. Prak Sokhon (2016–present)
• China - Wang Yi (2013–present)
• East Timor - Hernâni Coelho (2015–present)
• Georgia - Mikheil Janelidze (2015–present)
  • Abkhazia - Viacheslav Chirikba (2011–present)
  • South Ossetia - David Sanakoyev (2012–present)
• India - Sushma Swaraj (2014–present)
• Indonesia - Retno Marsudi (2014–present)
• Iran - Mohammad Javad Zarif (2013–present)
• Iraq - Ibrahim al-Jaafari (2014–present)
  • Kurdistan - Falah Mustafa Bakir (2006–present)
• Israel - Benjamin Netanyahu (2015–present)
• Japan - Fumio Kishida (2012–present)
• Jordan - Nasser Judeh (2009–present)
• Kazakhstan – Erlan Idrissov (2012–present)
• North Korea - Ri Su-yong (2014–present)
• South Korea - Yun Byung-se (2013–present)
• Kuwait - Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah (2011–present)
• Kyrgyzstan - Erlan Abdyldayev (2012–present)
• Laos -
  1. Thongloun Sisoulith (2006–2016)
  2. Saleumxay Kommasith (2016–present)
• Lebanon - Gebran Bassil (2014–present)
• Malaysia - Anifah Aman (2009–present)
• Maldives - Dunya Maumoon (2013–present)
• Mongolia - Lundeg Purevsuren (2014–present)
• Myanmar -
  1. Wunna Maung Lwin (2011–2016)
  2. Aung San Suu Kyi (2016–present)
• Nepal - Kamal Thapa (2015–present)
• Oman - Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah (1982–present)
• Pakistan - Sartaj Aziz (2013–present)
• Palestinian Authority - Riyad al-Maliki (2007–present)
• Philippines -
  1. Albert del Rosario (2011–2016)
  2. Jose Rene Almendras (2016–present)
• Qatar -
  1. Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah (2013–2016)
  2. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani (2016–present)
• Saudi Arabia - Adel al-Jubeir (2015–present)
• Singapore - Vivian Balakrishnan (2015–present)
• Sri Lanka - Mangala Samaraweera (2015–present)
• Syria - Walid Muallem (2006–present)
• Taiwan - David Lin (2012–present)
• Tajikistan - Sirodjidin M. Aslov (2013–present)
• Thailand - Don Pramudwinai (2015–present)
• Turkey - Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (2015–present)
• Turkmenistan - Raşit Meredow (2001–present)
• United Arab Emirates - Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (2006–present)
• Uzbekistan - Abdulaziz Komilov (2012–present)
• Vietnam - Phạm Bình Minh (2011–present)
• Yemen - disputed
  • vacant (2015–present) or
  • Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi (2015–present)

Europe

• Albania - Ditmir Bushati (2013–present)
• Andorra - Gilbert Saboya Sunyé (2011–present)
• Austria - Sebastian Kurz (2013–present)
• Belarus - Vladimir Makei (2012–present)
• Belgium - Didier Reynders (2011–present)
  • Brussels-Capital Region - Guy Vanhengel (2013–present)
  • Flanders - Geert Bourgeois (2014–present)
  • Wallonia - Paul Magnette (2014–present)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Igor Crnadak (2015–present)
• Bulgaria - Daniel Mitov (2014–present)
• Croatia
  1. Vesna Pusić (2011–2016)
  2. Miro Kovač (2016–present)
• Cyprus - Ioannis Kasoulidis (2013–present)
  • Northern Cyprus -
    1. Emine Çolak (2015–2016)
    2. Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu (2016–present)
• Czech Republic - Lubomír Zaorálek (2014–present)
• Denmark - Kristian Jensen (2015–present)
  • Greenland - Vittus Qujaukitsoq (2014–present)
  • Faroe Islands - Poul Michelsen (2015–present)
• Estonia - Marina Kaljurand (2015–present)
• Finland - Timo Soini (2015–present)
• France -
  1. Laurent Fabius (2012–2016)
  2. Jean-Marc Ayrault (2016–present)
• Germany - Frank-Walter Steinmeier (2013–present)
• Greece - Nikos Kotzias (2015–present)
• Hungary - Péter Szijjártó (2014–present)
• Iceland -
  1. Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson (2013–2016)
  2. Lilja Alfreðsdóttir (2016–present)
• Ireland - Charles Flanagan (2014–present)
• Italy - Paolo Gentiloni (2014–present)
• Kosovo -
  1. Hashim Thaçi (2014–2016)
  2. Petrit Selimi (acting) (2016–present)
• Latvia - Edgars Rinkēvičs (2011–present)
• Liechtenstein - Aurelia Frick (2009–present)
• Lithuania - Linas Antanas Linkevičius (2012–present)
• Luxembourg - Jean Asselborn (2004–present)
• Macedonia - Nikola Poposki (2011–present)
• Malta - George William Vella (2013–present)
• Moldova -
  1. Natalia Gherman (2013–2016)
  2. Andrei Galbur (2016–present)
  • Transnistria - Vitaly Ignatyev (acting) (2015–present)
• Monaco - Gilles Tonelli (2015–present)
• Montenegro - Igor Lukšić (2012–present)
• Netherlands - Bert Koenders (2014–present)
• Norway - Børge Brende (2013–present)
• Poland - Witold Waszczykowski (2015–present)
• Portugal - Augusto Santos Silva (2015–present)
• Romania - Lazăr Comănescu (2015–present)
• Russia - Sergey Lavrov (2004–present)
• San Marino - Pasquale Valentini (2012–present)
• Serbia - Ivica Dačić (2014–present)
• Slovakia - Miroslav Lajčák (2012–present)
• Slovenia - Karl Erjavec (2012–present)
• Spain - José García-Margallo y Marfil (2011–present)
  • Catalonia -
    1. Francesc Homs Molist (2012–2016)
    2. Raül Romeva (2016–present)
• Sweden - Margot Wallström (2014–present)
• Switzerland - Didier Burkhalter (2012–present)
• Ukraine - Pavlo Klimkin (2014–present)
• United Kingdom - Philip Hammond (2014–present)
  • Scotland - Fiona Hyslop (2009–present)
  • Jersey - Sir Philip Bailhache (2013–present)
• Vatican City - Archbishop Paul Gallagher (2014–present)

North America and the Caribbean

• Antigua and Barbuda - Charles Fernandez (2014–present)
• The Bahamas - Fred Mitchell (2012–present)
• Barbados - Maxine McClean (2008–present)
• Belize - Wilfred Elrington (2008–present)
• Canada - Stéphane Dion (2015–present)
  • Quebec - Christine St-Pierre (2014–present)
• Costa Rica - Manuel González Sanz (2014–present)
• Cuba - Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla (2009–present)
• Dominica - Francine Baron (2014–present)
• Dominican Republic - Andrés Navarro (2014–present)
• El Salvador - Hugo Martínez (2014–present)
• Grenada - Clarice Modeste-Curwen (2014–present)
• Guatemala - Carlos Raúl Morales (2014–present)
• Haiti -
  1. Lener Renauld (acting) (2015–2016)
  2. Pierrot Delienne (2016–present)
• Honduras - Arturo Corrales (2015–present)
• Jamaica -
  1. Arnold Nicholson (2012–2016)
  2. Kamina Johnson Smith (2016–present)
• Mexico - Claudia Ruiz Massieu (2015–present)
• Nicaragua - Samuel Santos López (2007–present)
• Panama - Isabel Saint Malo (2014–present)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis - Mark Brantley (2015–present)
• Saint Lucia - Alva Baptiste (2011–present)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Sir Louis Straker (2015–present)
• Trinidad and Tobago - Dennis Moses (2015–present)
• United States of America - John Kerry (2013–present)

Oceania

• Australia - Julie Bishop (2013–present)
• Fiji - Ratu Inoke Kubuabola (2009–present)
• French Polynesia - Édouard Fritch (2014–present)
• Kiribati -
  1. Anote Tong (2003–2016)
  2. Taneti Mamau (2016–present)
• Marshall Islands -
  1. Tony deBrum (2014–2016)
  2. Kessai Note (2016)
  3. John Silk (2016–present)
• Micronesia - Lorin S. Robert (2007–present)
• Nauru - Baron Waqa (2013–present)
• New Zealand - Murray McCully (2008–present)
  • Cook Islands - Henry Puna (2013–present)
  • Niue - Toke Talagi (2008–present)
  • Tokelau
    1. Siopili Perez (2015–2016)
    2. Afega Gaualofa (2016–present)
• Palau - Billy Kuartei (2013–present)
• Papua New Guinea - Rimbink Pato (2012–present)
• Samoa - Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi (1998–present)
• Solomon Islands - Milner Tozaka (2014–present)
• Tonga - ʻAkilisi Pōhiva (2014–present)
• Tuvalu - Taukelina Finikaso (2013–present)
• Vanuatu -
  1. Havo Moli (2015–2016)
  2. Bruno Leingkone (2016–present)

South America

• Argentina - Susana Malcorra (2015–present)
• Bolivia - David Choquehuanca (2006–present)
• Brazil - Mauro Vieira (2015–present)
• Chile - Heraldo Muñoz (2014–present)
• Colombia - María Ángela Holguín (2010–present)
• Ecuador -
  1. Ricardo Patiño (2010–2016)
  2. Guillaume Long (2016–present)
• Guyana - Carl Greenidge (2015–present)
• Paraguay - Eladio Loizaga (2013–present)
• Peru - Ana María Sánchez (2015–present)
• Suriname - Niermala Badrising (2015–present)
• Uruguay - Rodolfo Nin Novoa (2015–present)
• Venezuela - Delcy Rodríguez (2014–present)

References

1. Niger - H.E. Mrs. Aïchatou Boulama Kané, Minister of Foreign Affairs, United Nations, Retrieved 5 February 2016