List of foreign ministers in 1997
This is a list of foreign ministers in 1997.
Africa
- Algeria - Ahmed Attaf
- Angola - Venâncio da Silva Moura
- Benin - Pierre Osho
- Botswana - Mompati Merafhe
- Burkina Faso - Ablassé Ouedraogo
- Burundi - Luc Rukingama
- Cameroon -
- #Ferdinand Oyono
- #Augustin Kontchou Kouomegni
- Cape Verde - Amílcar Spencer Lopes
- Central African Republic -
- #Michel Gbezera-Bria
- #Jean-Mette Yapende
- Chad -
- #Saleh Kebzabo
- #Mahamat Saleh Annadif
- Comoros -
- #Said Omar Said Ahmed
- #Mouhtar Ahmed Charif
- #Ibrahim Ali Mzimba
- Republic of the Congo -
- #Arsène Tsaty Boungou
- #Rodolphe Adada
- Democratic Republic of the Congo / Zaire -
- #Gérard Kamanda Wa Kamanda
- #Bizima Karaha
- Côte d'Ivoire - Amara Essy
- Djibouti - Mohamed Moussa Chehem
- Egypt - Amr Moussa
- Equatorial Guinea - Miguel Oyono Ndong Mifumu
- Eritrea -
- #Petros Solomon
- #Haile Woldetensae
- Ethiopia - Seyoum Mesfin
- Gabon - Casimir Oyé-Mba
- The Gambia -
- #Baboucarr-Blaise Jagne
- #Omar Njie
- Ghana -
- #Obed Asamoah
- #Kwamena Ahwoi
- #Victor Gbeho
- Guinea - Lamine Camara
- Guinea-Bissau - Fernando Delfim da Silva
- Kenya - Kalonzo Musyoka
- Lesotho - Kelebone Maope
- Liberia - Monie Captan
- Libya - Umar Mustafa al-Muntasir
- Madagascar -
- #Evariste Marson
- #Herizo Razafimahaleo
- Malawi -
- #George Ntafu
- #Mapopa Chipeta
- Mali -
- #Dioncounda Traoré
- #Modibo Sidibe
- Mauritania -
- #Lemrabott Sidi Mahmoud Ould Cheikh Ahmed
- #Ahmed Sidi Ould Khalifa
- #Abdallahi Ould Nem
- #Sow Abou Demha
- #Mohamed El Hacen Ould Lebatt
- Mauritius -
- #Paul Bérenger
- #Navin Ramgoolam
- #Rajkeswur Purryag
- Morocco - Abdellatif Filali
- * Western Sahara -
- *#Malainine Sadik
- *#Bachir Mustafa Sayed
- Mozambique - Leonardo Simão
- Namibia - Theo-Ben Gurirab
- Niger -
- #Ibrahim Hassane Mayaki
- #Maman Sambo Sidikou
- Nigeria - Tom Ikimi
- Rwanda - Anastase Gasana
- São Tomé and Príncipe - Homero Jeronimo Salvaterra
- Senegal - Moustapha Niasse
- Seychelles -
- #Danielle de St. Jorre
- #France-Albert René
- #Jérémie Bonnelame
- Sierra Leone -
- #Shirley Gbujama
- #Paolo Bangura
- Somalia - no central government
- * Somaliland - Mahmud Salah Nur
- South Africa - Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo
- Sudan - Ali Osman Taha
- Swaziland - Arthur Khoza
- Tanzania - Jakaya Kikwete
- Togo - Koffi Panou
- Tunisia -
- #Habib Ben Yahia
- #Abderrahim Zouari
- #Said Ben Mustapha
- Uganda - Eriya Kategaya
- Zambia -
- #Lawrence Shimba
- #Keli Walubita
- Zimbabwe - Stan Mudenge
Asia
- Afghanistan -
- #Mohammad Ghous
- #Mullah Abdul Jalil
- Armenia - Alexander Arzumanyan
- Azerbaijan - Hasan Hasanov
- * Nagorno-Karabakh -
- *# Arkadi Ghukasyan
- *# Naira Melkumyan
- Bahrain - Sheikh Muhammad ibn Mubarak ibn Hamad Al Khalifah
- Bangladesh - Abdus Samad Azad
- Bhutan - Dawa Tsering
- Brunei - Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah
- Cambodia - Ung Huot
- China - Qian Qichen
- Georgia - Irakli Menagarishvili
- * Abkhazia -
- *# Konstantin Ozgan
- *# Sergei Shamba
- India - I. K. Gujral
- Indonesia - Ali Alatas
- Iran -
- #Ali Akbar Velayati
- #Kamal Kharazi
- Iraq - Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
- Israel - David Levy
- Japan -
- #Yukihiko Ikeda
- #Keizō Obuchi
- Jordan -
- #Abdul Karim al-Kabariti
- #Fayez al-Tarawneh
- Kazakhstan - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
- North Korea - Kim Yong-nam
- South Korea - Yu Jong-ha
- Kuwait - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
- Kyrgyzstan -
- #Roza Otunbayeva
- #Muratbek Imanaliyev
- Laos - Somsavat Lengsavad
- Lebanon - Farès Boueiz
- Malaysia - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
- Maldives - Fathulla Jameel
- Mongolia -
- #Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan
- #Shukher Altangerel
- Myanmar - Ohn Gyaw
- Nepal -
- #Prakash Chandra Lohani
- #Kamal Thapa
- Oman - Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah
- Pakistan -
- #Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
- #Gohar Ayub 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 -
- #John Chiang
- #Jason Hu
- Tajikistan - Talbak Nazarov
- Thailand -
- #Prachuab Chaiyasan
- #Surin Pitsuwan
- Turkey -
- #Tansu Çiller
- #İsmail Cem
- 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 - Alexander Downer
- Fiji -
- #Filipe Bole
- #Berenado Vunibobo
- Kiribati - Teburoro Tito
- Marshall Islands - Phillip H. Muller
- Micronesia -
- #Asterio R. Takesy
- #Epel K. Ilon
- Nauru -
- #Rueben Kun
- #Kinza Clodumar
- New Zealand - Don McKinnon
- * Cook Islands - Inatio Akaruru
- Palau - Sabino Anastacio
- Papua New Guinea -
- #Kilroy Genia
- #Chris Haiveta
- #Roy Yaki
- Solomon Islands -
- #David Sitai
- #Patterson Oti
- Tonga - Prince Tupouto'a Tungi
- Tuvalu - Bikenibeu Paeniu
- Vanuatu -
- #Willie Jimmy
- #Amos Andeng
- #Vital Soksok
- Western Samoa - Tofilau Eti Alesana
Europe
- Albania -
- #Tritan Shehu
- #Arjan Starova
- #Paskal Milo
- Andorra -
- #Manuel Mas Ribó
- #Albert Pintat
- Austria - Wolfgang Schüssel
- Belarus -
- #Uladzimir Syanko
- #Ivan Antanovich
- Belgium - Erik Derycke
- * Brussels-Capital Region - Jos Chabert
- * Flanders - Luc Van den Brande
- * Wallonia - William Ancion
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - Jadranko Prlić
- * Republika Srpska - Aleksa Buha
- Bulgaria -
- #Irina Bokova
- #Stoyan Stalev
- #Nadezhda Mihailova
- Croatia - Mate Granić
- Cyprus -
- #Alekos Michaelides
- #Ioannis Kasoulidis
- * Northern Cyprus - Taner Etkin
- Czech Republic -
- #Josef Zieleniec
- #Jaroslav Šedivý
- Denmark - Niels Helveg Petersen
- Estonia - Toomas Hendrik Ilves
- Finland - Tarja Halonen
- France -
- #Hervé de Charette
- #Hubert Védrine
- Germany - Klaus Kinkel
- Greece - Theodoros Pangalos
- Hungary - László Kovács
- Iceland - Halldór Ásgrímsson
- Ireland -
- #Dick Spring
- #Ray Burke
- #David Andrews
- Italy - Lamberto Dini
- Latvia - Valdis Birkavs
- Liechtenstein - Andrea Willi
- Lithuania - Algirdas Saudargas
- Luxembourg - Jacques Poos
- Macedonia -
- #Ljubomir Frckovski
- #Blagoje Handžiski
- Malta - George Vella
- Moldova -
- #Mihai Popov
- #Nicolae Tăbăcaru
- Netherlands - Hans van Mierlo
- Norway -
- #Bjørn Tore Godal
- #Knut Vollebæk
- Poland -
- #Dariusz Rosati
- #Bronisław Geremek
- Portugal - Jaime Gama
- Romania -
- #Adrian Severin
- #Andrei Pleşu
- Russia - Yevgeny Primakov
- * Chechnya -
- *# Ruslan Chimayev
- *# Movladi Udugo
- San Marino - Gabriele Gatti
- Slovakia -
- #Pavol Hamžík
- #Zdenka Kramplová
- Slovenia -
- #Davorin Kračun
- #Zoran Thaler
- #Boris Frlec
- Spain - Abel Matutes
- Sweden - Lena Hjelm-Wallén
- Switzerland - Flavio Cotti
- Ukraine - Hennadiy Udovenko
- United Kingdom -
- #Malcolm Rifkind
- #Robin Cook
- Vatican City - Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran
- Yugoslavia - Milan Milutinović
- * Montenegro -
- *# Janko Jeknić
- *# Branko Perović
North America and the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda - Lester Bird
- The Bahamas - Janet Bostwick
- Barbados - Billie Miller
- Belize - Dean Barrow
- Canada - Lloyd Axworthy
- * Quebec - Sylvain Simard
- Costa Rica - Fernando Naranjo Villalobos
- Cuba - Roberto Robaina
- Dominica - Edison James
- Dominican Republic - Eduardo Latorre Rodríguez
- El Salvador - Ramón Ernesto González Giner
- Grenada -
- #Keith Mitchell
- #Raphael Fletcher
- Guatemala - Eduardo Stein
- Haiti - Fritz Longchamp
- Honduras - Delmer Urbizo Panting
- Jamaica - Seymour Mullings
- Mexico - José Ángel Gurría
- Nicaragua -
- #Ernesto Leal
- #Emilio Álvarez Montalván
- Panama - Ricardo Alberto Arias
- Puerto Rico – Norma Burgos
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Denzil Douglas
- Saint Lucia -
- #Vaughan Lewis
- #George Odlum
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Alpian Allen
- Trinidad and Tobago - Ralph Maraj
- United States -
- #Warren Christopher
- #Madeleine Albright
South America
- Argentina - Guido di Tella
- Bolivia -
- #Antonio Araníbar Quiroga
- #Javier Murillo de la Rocha
- Brazil - Luiz Felipe Palmeira Lampreia
- Chile - José Miguel Insulza
- Colombia - María Emma Mejía Vélez
- Ecuador -
- #Galo Leoro Franco
- #José Ayala Lasso
- Guyana - Clement Rohee
- Paraguay - Rubén Melgarejo Lanzoni
- Peru -
- #Francisco Tudela
- #Eduardo Ferrero Costa
- Suriname -
- #Faried Pierkhan
- #Errol Snijders
- Uruguay - Álvaro Ramos Trigo
- Venezuela - Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas