List of foreign ministers in 2009
This is a list of foreign ministers in 2009.
Africa
- Algeria - Mourad Medelci
- Angola - Assunção dos Anjos
- Benin - Jean-Marie Ehouzou
- Botswana - Phandu Skelemani
- Burkina Faso - Alain Bédouma Yoda
- Burundi -
- #Antoinette Batumubwira
- #Augustin Nsanze
- Cameroon - Henri Eyebe Ayissi
- Cape Verde - José Brito
- Central African Republic -
- #Dieudonné Kombo Yaya
- #Antoine Gambi
- Chad - Moussa Faki
- Comoros - Ahmed Ben Said Jaffar
- Republic of Congo - Basile Ikouébé
- Democratic Republic of Congo - Alexis Thambwe Mwamba
- Côte d'Ivoire - Youssouf Bakayoko
- Djibouti - Mahamoud Ali Youssouf
- Egypt - Ahmed Aboul Gheit
- Equatorial Guinea - Pastor Micha Ondó Bile
- Eritrea - Osman Saleh Mohammed
- Ethiopia - Seyoum Mesfin
- Gabon - Paul Toungui
- The Gambia -
- # Omar Touray
- # Ousman Jammeh
- Ghana -
- #Akwasi Osei-Adjei
- #Muhammad Mumuni
- Guinea -
- #Amadou Lamarana Bah
- #Alexandre Cécé Loua
- Guinea-Bissau -
- #Maria da Conceição Nobre Cabral
- #Adiato Djaló Nandigna
- #Adelino Mano Quetá
- Kenya - Moses Wetangula
- Lesotho - Mohlabi Tsekoa
- Liberia - Olubanke King-Akerele
- Libya -
- #Abdel Rahman Shalgham
- #Moussa Koussa
- Madagascar -
- #Marcel Ranjeva
- #Ny Hasina Andriamanjato
- Malawi -
- #Joyce Banda
- #Etta Banda
- Mali - Moctar Ouane
- Mauritania -
- # Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
- # Naha Mint Mouknass
- Mauritius - Arvin Boolell
- Morocco - Taieb Fassi Fihri
- * Western Sahara - Mohamed Salem Ould Salek
- Mozambique - Oldemiro Balói
- Namibia - Marco Hausiku
- Niger - Aïchatou Mindaoudou
- Nigeria - Ojo Maduekwe
- Rwanda -
- # Rosemary Museminari
- # Louise Mushikiwabo
- São Tomé and Príncipe - Carlos Tiny
- Senegal -
- # Cheikh Tidiane Gadio
- # Madické Niang
- Seychelles -
- # Patrick Pillay
- # James Michel
- Sierra Leone - Zainab Bangura
- Somalia -
- #Ali Ahmed Jama Jangali
- #Mohamed Abdullahi Omar
- #Ali Ahmed Jama Jangali
- * Somaliland - Abdillahi Mohamed Duale
- * Puntland - Farah Adan Dhala
- South Africa -
- # Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
- # Maite Nkoana-Mashabane
- Sudan - Deng Alor
- Swaziland - Lutfo Dlamini
- Tanzania – Bernard Membe
- Togo - Kofi Esaw
- Tunisia - Abdelwahab Abdallah
- Uganda - Sam Kutesa
- Zambia - Kabinga Pande
- Zimbabwe - Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
Asia
- Afghanistan - Rangin Dadfar Spanta
- Armenia - Eduard Nalbandyan
- Azerbaijan - Elmar Mammadyarov
- * Nagorno-Karabakh - Georgy Petrosyan
- Bahrain - Sheikh Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah
- Bangladesh –
- #Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury
- #Dipu Moni
- Bhutan - Ugyen Tshering
- Brunei - Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah
- Cambodia - Hor Namhong
- China - Yang Jiechi
- East Timor - Zacarias da Costa
- Georgia - Grigol Vashadze
- * Abkhazia - Sergei Shamba
- * South Ossetia - Murat Dzhioyev
- India -
- #Pranab Mukherjee
- #S. M. Krishna
- Indonesia -
- # Hassan Wirajuda
- # Marty Natalegawa
- Iran - Manouchehr Mottaki
- Iraq - Hoshyar Zebari
- * Kurdistan - Falah Mustafa Bakir
- Israel -
- #Tzipi Livni
- #Avigdor Lieberman
- * Palestinian Authority - Riyad al-Maliki
- Japan -
- #Hirofumi Nakasone
- #Katsuya Okada
- Jordan -
- # Salah Bashir
- # Nasser Judeh
- Kazakhstan –
- # Marat Tazhin
- # Kanat Saudabayev
- North Korea - Pak Ui-chun
- South Korea - Yu Myung-hwan
- Kuwait - Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
- Kyrgyzstan -
- #Ednan Karabayev
- #Kadyrbek Sarbayev
- Laos - Thongloun Sisoulith
- Lebanon -
- # Fawzi Salloukh
- # Ali Al Shami
- Malaysia -
- #Rais Yatim
- #Anifah Aman
- Maldives - Ahmed Shaheed
- Mongolia -
- # Sükhbaataryn Batbold
- # Gombojavyn Zandanshatar
- Myanmar - Nyan Win
- Nepal -
- #Upendra Yadav
- #Sujata Koirala
- Oman - Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah
- Pakistan - Shah Mehmood Qureshi
- Philippines - Alberto Romulo
- Qatar - Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani
- Saudi Arabia - Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Singapore - George Yeo
- Sri Lanka - Rohitha Bogollagama
- Syria - Walid Muallem
- Taiwan -
- # Francisco Ou
- # Timothy Yang
- Tajikistan - Khamrokhon Zaripov
- Thailand - Kasit Piromya
- Turkey -
- #Ali Babacan
- #Ahmet Davutoğlu
- Turkmenistan - Raşit Meredow
- United Arab Emirates - Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan
- Uzbekistan - Vladimir Norov
- Vietnam - Phạm Gia Khiêm
- Yemen - Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
Europe
- Albania -
- #Lulzim Basha
- #Ilir Meta
- Andorra -
- #Meritxell Mateu i Pi
- #Xavier Espot Miró
- Austria - Michael Spindelegger
- Belarus - Sergei Martynov
- Belgium -
- # Karel De Gucht
- # Yves Leterme
- # Steven Vanackere
- * Brussels-Capital Region -
- *# Guy Vanhengel
- *# Jean-Luc Vanraes
- * Flanders - Kris Peeters
- * Wallonia -
- *# Marie-Dominique Simonet
- *# Rudy Demotte
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sven Alkalaj
- Bulgaria -
- # Ivailo Kalfin
- # Rumiana Jeleva
- Croatia - Gordan Jandroković
- Cyprus - Markos Kyprianou
- * Northern Cyprus
- *# Turgay Avcı
- *# Hüseyin Özgürgün
- Czech Republic
- # Karel Schwarzenberg
- # Jan Kohout
- Denmark - Per Stig Møller
- * Greenland -
- *# Per Berthelsen
- *# Kuupik Kleist
- * Faroe Islands - Jørgen Niclasen
- Estonia - Urmas Paet
- Finland - Alexander Stubb
- France - Bernard Kouchner
- Germany -
- # Frank-Walter Steinmeier
- # Guido Westerwelle
- Greece -
- # Dora Bakoyannis
- # George Papandreou
- Hungary -
- #Kinga Göncz
- #Péter Balázs
- Iceland -
- #Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
- #Össur Skarphéðinsson
- Ireland - Micheál Martin
- Italy - Franco Frattini
- Latvia - Māris Riekstiņš
- Liechtenstein -
- #Rita Kieber-Beck
- #Aurelia Frick
- Lithuania - Vygaudas Ušackas
- Luxembourg - Jean Asselborn
- Macedonia - Antonio Milošoski
- Malta - Tonio Borg
- Moldova -
- #Andrei Stratan
- #Iurie Leancă
- * Transnistria - Vladimir Yastrebchak
- Monaco - Franck Biancheri
- Montenegro - Milan Roćen
- Netherlands - Maxime Verhagen
- Norway - Jonas Gahr Støre
- Poland - Radosław Sikorski
- Portugal - Luís Amado
- Romania -
- # Cristian Diaconescu
- # Cătălin Predoiu
- # Teodor Baconschi
- Russia - Sergey Lavrov
- San Marino - Antonella Mularoni
- Serbia - Vuk Jeremić
- * Kosovo - Skënder Hyseni
- Slovakia -
- #Ján Kubiš
- #Miroslav Lajčák
- Slovenia - Samuel Žbogar
- Spain - Miguel Ángel Moratinos
- Sweden - Carl Bildt
- Switzerland - Micheline Calmy-Rey
- Ukraine -
- #Volodymyr Ohryzko
- #Volodymyr Khandohiy
- #Petro Poroshenko
- United Kingdom - David Miliband
- * Scotland -
- # Linda Fabiani
- # Michael Russell
- # Fiona Hyslop
- Vatican City - Archbishop Dominique Mamberti
North America and the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda - Baldwin Spencer
- The Bahamas - Brent Symonette
- Barbados - Maxine McClean
- Belize - Wilfred Elrington
- Canada - Lawrence Cannon
- * Quebec - Pierre Arcand
- Costa Rica - Bruno Stagno Ugarte
- Cuba -
- # Felipe Pérez Roque
- # Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
- Dominica - Vince Henderson
- Dominican Republic - Carlos Morales Troncoso
- El Salvador -
- # Marisol Argueta de Barillas
- # Hugo Martínez
- Grenada - Peter David
- Guatemala - Haroldo Rodas
- Haiti -
- # Alrich Nicolas
- # Marie-Michèle Rey
- Honduras -
- #Ángel Edmundo Orellana
- #Patricia Rodas
- #Enrique Ortez
- #Carlos López Contreras
- Jamaica - Kenneth Baugh
- Mexico - Patricia Espinosa
- Netherlands Antilles - Emily de Jongh-Elhage
- Nicaragua - Samuel Santos López
- Panama -
- #Samuel Lewis Navarro
- #Juan Carlos Varela
- Puerto Rico –
- #Fernando Bonilla
- #Kenneth McClintock
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Denzil Douglas
- Saint Lucia -
- #Stephenson King
- #Rufus Bousquet
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Sir Louis Straker
- Trinidad and Tobago - Paula Gopee-Scoon
- United States of America -
- #Condoleezza Rice
- #William Joseph Burns
- #Hillary Clinton
Oceania
- Australia - Stephen Smith
- Fiji -
- #Frank Bainimarama
- #Ratu Inoke Kubuabola
- French Polynesia -
- # Gaston Tong Sang
- # Oscar Temaru
- # Gaston Tong Sang
- Kiribati - Anote Tong
- Marshall Islands -
- # Tony deBrum
- # John Silk
- Micronesia - Lorin S. Robert
- Nauru - Kieren Keke
- New Zealand - Murray McCully
- * Cook Islands -
- *# Wilkie Rasmussen
- *# Jim Marurai
- *# Sir Terepai Maoate
- *# Jim Marurai
- * Niue - Toke Talagi
- * Tokelau -
- *#Pio Tuia
- *#Foua Toloa
- Palau -
- #Temmy Shmull
- #Sandra Pierantozzi
- Papua New Guinea - Sam Abal
- Samoa - Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
- Solomon Islands - William Haomae
- Tonga -
- # Sonatane Tu'a Taumoepeau Tupou
- # Feleti Sevele
- Tuvalu - Apisai Ielemia
- Vanuatu -
- # Pakoa Kaltonga
- # Joe Natuman
South America
- Argentina - Jorge Taiana
- Bolivia - David Choquehuanca
- Brazil - Celso Amorim
- Chile -
- # Alejandro Foxley
- # Mariano Fernández Amunátegui
- Colombia - Jaime Bermúdez
- Ecuador - Fander Falconí
- Guyana - Carolyn Rodrigues
- Paraguay -
- # Alejandro Hamed
- # Héctor Lacognata
- Peru - JJosé Antonio García Belaúnde
- Suriname - Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk
- Uruguay -
- # Gonzalo Fernández
- # Pedro Vaz
- Venezuela - Nicolás Maduro