List of foreign ministers in 1996
This is a list of foreign ministers in 1996.
Africa
- Algeria -
- #Mohamed Salah Dembri
- #Ahmed Attaf
- Angola - Venâncio da Silva Moura
- Benin -
- #Edgar Yves Monnou
- #Pierre Osho
- Botswana - Mompati Merafhe
- Burkina Faso - Ablassé Ouedraogo
- Burundi -
- #Vénérand Bakevyumusaya
- #Luc Rukingama
- Cameroon - Ferdinand Oyono
- Cape Verde -
- #José Tomás Veiga
- #Amílcar Spencer Lopes
- Central African Republic -
- #Simon Bedaya-Ngaro
- #Michel Gbezera-Bria
- Chad -
- #Ahmat Abderahmane Haggar
- #Saleh Kebzabo
- Comoros -
- #Abdallah Mouzaoir
- #Said Omar Said Ahmed
- Congo - Arsène Tsaty Boungou
- Côte d'Ivoire - Amara Essy
- Djibouti - Mohamed Moussa Chehem
- Egypt - Amr Moussa
- Equatorial Guinea - Miguel Oyono Ndong Mifumu
- Eritrea - Petros Solomon
- Ethiopia - Seyoum Mesfin
- Gabon - Casimir Oyé-Mba
- The Gambia - Baboucarr-Blaise Jagne
- Ghana - Obed Asamoah
- Guinea -
- #Kozo Zoumanigui
- #Lamine Camara
- Guinea-Bissau -
- #Ansumane Mané
- #Fernando Delfim da Silva
- Kenya - Kalonzo Musyoka
- Lesotho - Kelebone Maope
- Liberia -
- #Momolu Sirleaf
- #Monie Captan
- Libya - Umar Mustafa al-Muntasir
- Madagascar -
- #Jacques Sylla
- #Evariste Marson
- Malawi -
- #Edward Bwanali
- #George Ntafu
- Mali - Dioncounda Traoré
- Mauritania -
- #Mohamed Salem Ould Lekhal
- #Lemrabott Sidi Mahmoud Ould Cheikh Ahmed
- Mauritius - Paul Bérenger
- Morocco - Abdellatif Filali
- * Western Sahara - Malainine Sadik
- Mozambique - Leonardo Simão
- Namibia - Theo-Ben Gurirab
- Niger -
- #Mohamed Bazoum
- #André Salifou
- #Ibrahim Hassane Mayaki
- Nigeria - Tom Ikimi
- Rwanda - Anastase Gasana
- São Tomé and Príncipe -
- #Guilherme Posser da Costa
- #Homero Jeronimo Salvaterra
- Senegal - Moustapha Niasse
- Seychelles - Danielle de St. Jorre
- Sierra Leone -
- #Alusine Fofanah
- #Louisin Chaluba
- #Maigore Kallon
- #Shirley Gbujama
- Somalia - Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail
- * Somaliland - Sulayman Mahmud Adan
- South Africa - Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo
- Sudan - Ali Osman Taha
- Swaziland - Arthur Khoza
- Tanzania - Jakaya Kikwete
- Togo -
- #Barry Moussa Barqué
- #Koffi Panou
- Tunisia - Habib Ben Yahia
- Uganda -
- #Ruhakana Rugunda
- #Eriya Kategaya
- Zaire -
- #Gérard Kamanda Wa Kamanda
- #Jean-Marie Kititwa
- #Gérard Kamanda Wa Kamanda
- Zambia -
- #Christon Tembo
- #Lawrence Shimba
- Zimbabwe - Stan Mudenge
Asia
- Afghanistan -
- #Najibullah Lafraie
- #Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai
- #Mohammad Ghous
- Armenia -
- #Vahan Papasyan
- #Alexander Arzumanyan
- Azerbaijan - Hasan Hasanov
- * Nagorno-Karabakh - Arkadi Ghukasyan
- Bahrain - Sheikh Muhammad ibn Mubarak ibn Hamad Al Khalifah
- Bangladesh -
- #A.S.M. Mostafizur Rahman
- #Mohammad Habibur Rahman
- #Abdus Samad Azad
- Bhutan - Dawa Tsering
- Brunei - Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah
- Cambodia - Ung Huot
- China - Qian Qichen
- Georgia - Irakli Menagarishvili
- * Abkhazia -
- *# Leonid Lakerbaia
- *# Konstantin Ozgan
- India -
- #Pranab Mukherjee
- #Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- #Sikander Bakht
- #I. K. Gujral
- Indonesia - Ali Alatas
- Iran - Ali Akbar Velayati
- Iraq - Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
- Israel -
- #Ehud Barak
- #David Levy
- Japan -
- #Yōhei Kōno
- #Yukihiko Ikeda
- Jordan - Abdul Karim al-Kabariti
- Kazakhstan - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
- North Korea - Kim Yong-nam
- South Korea -
- #Gong Ro-myeong
- #Yu Jong-ha
- Kuwait - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
- Kyrgyzstan - Roza Otunbayeva
- Laos - Somsavat Lengsavad
- Lebanon - Farès Boueiz
- Malaysia - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
- Maldives - Fathulla Jameel
- Mongolia -
- #Tserenpiliyn Gombosüren
- #Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan
- Myanmar - Ohn Gyaw
- Nepal - Prakash Chandra Lohani
- Oman - Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah
- Pakistan -
- #Aseff Ahmad Ali
- #Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
- Philippines - Domingo Siazon, Jr.
- Qatar - Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani
- Saudi Arabia - Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Singapore - S. Jayakumar
- Sri Lanka - Lakshman Kadirgamar
- Syria - Farouk al-Sharaa
- Taiwan -
- #Fredrick Chien
- #John Chiang
- Tajikistan - Talbak Nazarov
- Thailand -
- #Kasem S. Kasemsri
- #Amnuay Viravan
- #Thep Devakula
- #Prachuab Chaiyasan
- Turkey -
- #Deniz Baykal
- #Emre Gönensay
- #Tansu Çiller
- Turkmenistan - Boris Şyhmyradow
- United Arab Emirates - Rashid Abdullah Al Nuaimi
- Uzbekistan - Abdulaziz Komilov
- Vietnam - Nguyễn Mạnh Cầm
- Yemen - Abd al-Karim al-Iryani
Australia and Oceania
- Australia -
- #Gareth Evans
- #Alexander Downer
- Fiji - Filipe Bole
- Kiribati - Teburoro Tito
- Marshall Islands - Phillip H. Muller
- Micronesia -
- #Resio S. Moses
- #Asterio R. Takesy
- Nauru -
- #Lagumot Harris
- #Bernard Dowiyogo
- #Kennan Adeang
- #Rueben Kun
- New Zealand - Don McKinnon
- * Cook Islands - Inatio Akaruru
- Palau - Andres Uherbelau
- Papua New Guinea -
- #Sir Julius Chan
- #Kilroy Genia
- Solomon Islands -
- #Danny Philip
- #David Sitai
- Tonga - Prince Tupouto'a Tungi
- Tuvalu -
- #Kamuta Latasi
- #Bikenibeu Paeniu
- Vanuatu -
- #Alfred Maseng
- #Amos Bangabiti
- #Willie Jimmy
- Western Samoa - Tofilau Eti Alesana
Europe
- Albania -
- #Alfred Serreqi
- #Tritan Shehu
- Andorra - Manuel Mas Ribó
- Austria - Wolfgang Schüssel
- Belarus - Uladzimir Syanko
- Belgium - Erik Derycke
- * Brussels-Capital Region - Jos Chabert
- * Flanders - Luc Van den Brande
- * Wallonia -
- *# Jean-Pierre Grafé
- *# William Ancion
- Bosnia and Herzegovina -
- #Muhamed Sacirbey
- #Jadranko Prlić
- *Republika Srpska - Aleksa Buha
- Bulgaria -
- #Georgi Pirinski, Jr.
- #Irina Bokova
- Croatia - Mate Granić
- Cyprus - Alekos Michaelides
- * Northern Cyprus -
- *# Atay Ahmet Raşit
- *# Taner Etkin
- Czech Republic - Josef Zieleniec
- Denmark - Niels Helveg Petersen
- Estonia -
- #Siim Kallas
- #Toomas Hendrik Ilves
- Finland - Tarja Halonen
- France - Hervé de Charette
- Germany - Klaus Kinkel
- Greece -
- #Karolos Papoulias
- #Theodoros Pangalos
- Hungary - László Kovács
- Iceland - Halldór Ásgrímsson
- Ireland - Dick Spring
- Italy -
- #Susanna Agnelli
- #Lamberto Dini
- Latvia - Valdis Birkavs
- Liechtenstein - Andrea Willi
- Lithuania -
- #Povilas Gylys
- #Algirdas Saudargas
- Luxembourg - Jacques Poos
- Macedonia -
- #Stevo Crvenkovski
- #Ljubomir Frckovski
- Malta -
- #Guido de Marco
- #George Vella
- Moldova - Mihai Popov
- Netherlands - Hans van Mierlo
- Norway - Bjørn Tore Godal
- Poland - Dariusz Rosati
- Portugal - Jaime Gama
- Romania -
- #Teodor Meleşcanu
- #Adrian Severin
- Russia -
- #Andrey Kozyrev
- #Yevgeny Primakov
- * Chechnya -
- *# Shamseddin Yusef
- *# Ruslan Chimayev
- San Marino - Gabriele Gatti
- Slovakia -
- #Juraj Schenk
- #Pavol Hamžík
- Slovenia -
- #Zoran Thaler
- #Davorin Kračun
- Spain -
- #Carlos Westendorp
- #Abel Matutes
- Sweden - Lena Hjelm-Wallén
- Switzerland - Flavio Cotti
- Ukraine - Hennadiy Udovenko
- United Kingdom - Malcolm Rifkind
- Vatican City - Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran
- Yugoslavia - Milan Milutinović
- * Montenegro - Janko Jeknić
North America and the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda - Lester Bird
- The Bahamas - Janet Bostwick
- Barbados - Billie Miller
- Belize - Dean Barrow
- Canada -
- #André Ouellet
- #Lloyd Axworthy
- * Quebec -
- *# Bernard Landry
- *# Sylvain Simard
- Costa Rica - Fernando Naranjo Villalobos
- Cuba - Roberto Robaina
- Dominica - Edison James
- Dominican Republic -
- #Carlos Morales Troncoso
- #Eduardo Latorre Rodríguez
- El Salvador - Ramón Ernesto González Giner
- Grenada - Keith Mitchell
- Guatemala -
- #Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre
- #Eduardo Stein
- Haiti - Fritz Longchamp
- Honduras - Delmer Urbizo Panting
- Jamaica - Seymour Mullings
- Mexico - José Ángel Gurría
- Nicaragua - Ernesto Leal
- Panama -
- #Gabriel Lewis Galindo
- #Ricardo Alberto Arias
- Puerto Rico – Norma Burgos
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Denzil Douglas
- Saint Lucia -
- #George Mallet
- #Vaughan Lewis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Alpian Allen
- Trinidad and Tobago - Ralph Maraj
- United States - Warren Christopher
South America
- Argentina - Guido di Tella
- Bolivia - Antonio Araníbar Quiroga
- Brazil - Luiz Felipe Palmeira Lampreia
- Chile - José Miguel Insulza
- Colombia -
- #Rodrigo Pardo García-Peña
- #María Emma Mejía Vélez
- Ecuador - Galo Leoro Franco
- Guyana - Clement Rohee
- Paraguay -
- #Luis María Ramírez Boettner
- #Rubén Melgarejo Lanzoni
- Peru - Francisco Tudela
- Suriname -
- #Subhas Mungra
- #Faried Pierkhan
- Uruguay - Álvaro Ramos Trigo
- Venezuela - Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas