List of foreign ministers in 2002
This is a list of foreign ministers in 2002.
Africa
- Algeria - Abdelaziz Belkhadem
- Angola - João Bernardo de Miranda
- Benin - Antoine Idji Kolawolé
- Botswana - Mompati Merafhe
- Burkina Faso - Youssouf Ouedraogo
- Burundi - Terence Sinunguruza
- Cameroon - François Xavier Ngoubeyou
- Cape Verde -
- # Manuel Inocêncio Sousa
- # Fátima Veiga
- Central African Republic - Agba Otikpo Mézodé
- Chad - Mahamat Saleh Annadif
- Comoros -
- # Mohamed El-Amine Souef
- # Halidi Charif
- # Mohamed El-Amine Souef
- Republic of Congo - Rodolphe Adada
- Democratic Republic of Congo - Léonard She Okitundu
- Côte d'Ivoire - Abou Drahamane Sangare
- Djibouti - Ali Abdi Farah
- Egypt - Ahmed Maher
- Equatorial Guinea - Santiago Nsobeya Efuman
- Eritrea - Ali Said Abdella
- Ethiopia - Seyoum Mesfin
- Gabon - Jean Ping
- The Gambia - Baboucarr-Blaise Jagne
- Ghana - Hackman Owusu-Agyeman
- Guinea -
- # Mahawa Bangoura
- # François Lonseny Fall
- Guinea-Bissau -
- # Filomena Mascarenhas Tipote
- # Joãozinho Vieira Có
- Kenya - Marsden Madoka
- Lesotho -
- # Tom Thabane
- # Mohlabi Tsekoa
- Liberia - Monie Captan
- Libya - Abdel Rahman Shalgham
- Madagascar -
- # Lila Ratsifandrihamanana
- # Azaly Ben Marofo
- # Marcel Ranjeva
- Malawi - Lilian Patel
- Mali -
- # Modibo Sidibe
- # Lassana Traoré
- Mauritania -
- # Dah Ould Abdi
- # Mohamed Ould Tolba
- Mauritius - Anil Gayan
- Morocco - Mohamed Benaissa
- * Western Sahara - Mohamed Salem Ould Salek
- Mozambique - Leonardo Simão
- Namibia -
- # Theo-Ben Gurirab
- # Hidipo Hamutenya
- Niger - Aïchatou Mindaoudou
- Nigeria - Sule Lamido
- Rwanda -
- # André Bumaya
- # Charles Murigande
- São Tomé and Príncipe -
- # Patrice Trovoada
- # Mateus Meira Rita
- # Alda Bandeira
- # Mateus Meira Rita
- Senegal - Cheikh Tidiane Gadio
- Seychelles - Jérémie Bonnelame
- Sierra Leone -
- # Ahmed Ramadan Dumbuya
- # Momodu Koroma
- Somalia -
- # Ismail Mahmud Hurre
- # Yusuf Hassan Ibrahim
- * Somaliland -
- *# Abdihamid Garad Jama
- *# Mohamed Said Gees
- South Africa - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
- Sudan - Mustafa Osman Ismail
- Swaziland - Abednego Ntshangase
- Tanzania - Jakaya Kikwete
- Togo -
- # Joseph Kokou Koffigoh
- # Roland Kpotsra
- Tunisia - Habib Ben Yahia
- Uganda - James Wapakhabulo
- Zambia -
- # Keli Walubita
- # Katele Kalumba
- # Kalombo Mwansa
- Zimbabwe - Stan Mudenge
Asia
- Afghanistan - Abdullah Abdullah
- Armenia - Vartan Oskanian
- Azerbaijan - Vilayat Guliyev
- * Nagorno-Karabakh -
- *# Naira Melkumyan
- *# Ashot Gulyan
- Bahrain - Sheikh Muhammad ibn Mubarak ibn Hamad Al Khalifah
- Bangladesh - Morshed Khan
- Bhutan - Jigme Thinley
- Brunei - Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah
- Cambodia - Hor Namhong
- China - Tang Jiaxuan
- East Timor - José Ramos-Horta
- Georgia - Irakli Menagarishvili
- * Abkhazia - Sergei Shamba
- * South Ossetia - Murat Dzhioyev
- India -
- # Jaswant Singh
- # Yashwant Sinha
- Indonesia - Hassan Wirajuda
- Iran - Kamal Kharazi
- Iraq - Naji Sabri
- Israel -
- # Shimon Peres
- # Ariel Sharon
- # Benjamin Netanyahu
- Japan -
- # Makiko Tanaka
- # Junichiro Koizumi
- # Yoriko Kawaguchi
- Jordan -
- # Abdul Ilah Khatib
- # Marwan al-Muasher
- Kazakhstan -
- # Erlan Idrisov
- # Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
- North Korea - Paek Nam-sun
- South Korea -
- # Han Seung-soo
- # Choi Sung Hong
- Kuwait - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
- Kyrgyzstan -
- # Muratbek Imanaliyev
- # Askar Aitmatov
- Laos - Somsavat Lengsavad
- Lebanon - Mahmoud Hammoud
- Malaysia - Syed Hamid Albar
- Maldives - Fathulla Jameel
- Mongolia - Luvsangiin Erdenechuluun
- Myanmar - Win Aung
- Nepal -
- # Sher Bahadur Deuba
- # Narendra Bikram Shah
- Oman - Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah
- Pakistan -
- # Abdul Sattar
- # Inam ul-Haq
- # Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
- Philippines -
- # Teofisto Guingona, Jr.
- # Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- # Blas Ople
- Qatar - Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani
- Saudi Arabia - Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Singapore - S. Jayakumar
- Sri Lanka - Tyronne Fernando
- Syria - Farouk al-Sharaa
- Taiwan -
- # Tien Hung-mao
- # Eugene Chien
- Tajikistan - Talbak Nazarov
- Thailand - Surakiart Sathirathai
- Turkey -
- # İsmail Cem
- # Şükrü Sina Gürel
- # Yaşar Yakış
- Turkmenistan - Raşit Meredow
- United Arab Emirates - Rashid Abdullah Al Nuaimi
- Uzbekistan - Abdulaziz Komilov
- Vietnam - Nguyễn Dy Niên
- Yemen - Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
Australia and Oceania
- Australia - Alexander Downer
- Fiji - Kaliopate Tavola
- French Polynesia - Gaston Flosse
- Kiribati - Teburoro Tito
- Marshall Islands - Gerald Zackios
- Micronesia - Ieske Iehsi
- Nauru - René Harris
- New Zealand - Phil Goff
- * Cook Islands - Robert Woonton
- * Niue -
- *# Sani Lakatani
- *# Young Vivian
- Palau - Temmy Shmull
- Papua New Guinea -
- # John Waiko
- # Sir Rabbie Namaliu
- Samoa - Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi
- Solomon Islands -
- # Alex Bartlett
- # Nollen Leni
- # Laurie Chan
- Tonga - Prince 'Ulukalala Lavaka Ata
- Tuvalu -
- # Koloa Talake
- # Saufatu Sopoanga
- Vanuatu -
- # Alain Mahe
- # Serge Vohor
Europe
- Albania - Ilir Meta
- Andorra - Juli Minoves Triquell
- Austria - Benita Ferrero-Waldner
- Belarus - Mikhail Khvostov
- Belgium - Louis Michel
- * Brussels-Capital Region - Guy Vanhengel
- * Flanders -
- *# Paul Van Grembergen
- *# Jaak Gabriëls
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - Zlatko Lagumdžija
- Bulgaria - Solomon Passy
- Croatia - Tonino Picula
- Cyprus - Ioannis Kasoulidis
- * Northern Cyprus - Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu
- Czech Republic -
- # Jan Kavan
- # Cyril Svoboda
- Denmark - Per Stig Møller
- Estonia -
- # Toomas Hendrik Ilves
- # Kristiina Ojuland
- Finland - Erkki Tuomioja
- France -
- # Hubert Védrine
- # Dominique de Villepin
- Germany - Joschka Fischer
- Greece - George Papandreou
- Hungary -
- # János Martonyi
- # László Kovács
- Iceland - Halldór Ásgrímsson
- Ireland - Brian Cowen
- Italy -
- # Renato Ruggiero
- # Silvio Berlusconi
- # Franco Frattini
- Latvia -
- # Indulis Bērziņš
- # Sandra Kalniete
- Liechtenstein - Ernst Walch
- Lithuania - Antanas Valionis
- Luxembourg - Lydie Polfer
- Macedonia -
- # Slobodan Čašule
- # Ilinka Mitreva
- Malta - Joe Borg
- Moldova - Nicolae Dudău
- * Transnistria - Valeriy Litskai
- Netherlands -
- # Jozias van Aartsen
- # Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
- Norway - Jan Petersen
- Poland - Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
- Portugal -
- # Jaime Gama
- # António Martins da Cruz
- Romania - Mircea Geoană
- Russia - Igor Ivanov
- San Marino -
- # Gabriele Gatti
- # Augusto Casali
- # Fiorenzo Stolfi
- Slovakia - Eduard Kukan
- Slovenia - Dimitrij Rupel
- Spain -
- # Josep Piqué
- # Ana de Palacio y del Valle-Lersundi
- Sweden - Anna Lindh
- Switzerland - Joseph Deiss
- Ukraine - Anatoliy Zlenko
- United Kingdom - Jack Straw
- Vatican City - Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran
- Yugoslavia - Goran Svilanović
- * Montenegro -
- *# Branko Lukovac
- *# Dragan Đurović
North America and the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda - Lester Bird
- The Bahamas -
- # Janet Bostwick
- # Fred Mitchell
- Barbados - Billie Miller
- Belize -
- # Said Musa
- # Assad Shoman
- Canada -
- # John Manley
- # Bill Graham
- * Quebec - Louise Beaudoin
- Costa Rica -
- # Roberto Rojas López
- # Roberto Tovar Faja
- Cuba - Felipe Pérez Roque
- Dominica - Osborne Riviere
- Dominican Republic - Hugo Tolentino Dipp
- El Salvador - María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila
- Grenada - Elvin Nimrod
- Guatemala -
- # Gabriel Orellana Rojas
- # Edgar Armando Gutiérrez Girón
- Haiti - Joseph Philippe Antonio
- Honduras -
- # Roberto Flores Bermúdez
- # Guillermo Pérez Arias
- Jamaica - Keith Desmond Knight
- Mexico - Jorge Castañeda Gutman
- Nicaragua -
- # Francisco Aguirre Sacasa
- # Norman José Caldera Cardenal
- Panama - José Miguel Alemán Healy
- Puerto Rico – Ferdinand Mercado
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Timothy Harris
- Saint Lucia - Julian Hunte
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Louis Straker
- Trinidad and Tobago - Knowlson Gift
- United States - Colin Powell
South America
- Argentina -
- # José María Vernet
- # Carlos Ruckauf
- Bolivia -
- # Gustavo Fernández Saavedra
- # Carlos Saavedra Bruno
- Brazil - Celso Lafer
- Chile - Soledad Alvear
- Colombia -
- # Guillermo Fernández de Soto
- # Carolina Barco
- Ecuador - Heinz Moeller Freile
- Guyana - Rudy Insanally
- Paraguay - José Antonio Moreno Ruffinelli
- Peru -
- # Diego García Sayán
- # Allan Wagner Tizón
- Suriname - Marie Levens
- Uruguay - Didier Opertti
- Venezuela -
- # Luis Alfonso Dávila
- # José Rodríguez Iturbe
- # Luis Alfonso Dávila
- # Roy Chaderton