List of foreign ministers in 2005
This is a list of foreign ministers in 2005.
Africa
- Algeria -
- # Abdelaziz Belkhadem
- # Mohammed Bedjaoui
- Angola - João Bernardo de Miranda
- Benin - Rogatien Biaou
- Botswana - Mompati Merafhe
- Burkina Faso - Youssouf Ouédraogo
- Burundi -
- # Terence Sinunguruza
- # Antoinette Batumubwira
- Cameroon - Laurent Esso
- Cape Verde - Víctor Borges
- Central African Republic -
- # Charles Wénézoui
- # Jean-Paul Ngoupandé
- Chad -
- # Nagoum Yamassoum
- # Ahmad Allam-Mi
- Comoros -
- # Mohamed El-Amine Souef
- # Aboudou Soefou
- Republic of Congo - Rodolphe Adada
- Democratic Republic of Congo - Raymond Ramazani Baya
- Côte d'Ivoire - Bamba Mamadou
- Djibouti -
- # Ali Abdi Farah
- # Mahamoud Ali Youssouf
- Egypt - Ahmed Aboul Gheit
- Equatorial Guinea - Pastor Micha Ondó Bile
- Eritrea -
- # Ali Said Abdella
- # Mohamed Omer
- Ethiopia - Seyoum Mesfin
- Gabon - Jean Ping
- The Gambia -
- # Sidi Moro Sanneh
- # Musa Gibril Bala Gaye
- # Lamin Kaba Bajo
- Ghana - Nana Akufo-Addo
- Guinea -
- # Mamady Condé
- # Fatoumata Kaba
- Guinea-Bissau -
- # Soares Sambu
- # António Isaac Monteiro
- Kenya -
- # Chirau Ali Mwakwere
- # Raphael Tuju
- Lesotho - Monyane Moleleki
- Liberia - Thomas Nimely
- Libya - Abdel Rahman Shalgham
- Madagascar - Marcel Ranjeva
- Malawi -
- # George Chaponda
- # Davis Katsonga
- Mali - Moctar Ouane
- Mauritania -
- # Mohamed Vall Ould Bellal
- # Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed
- Mauritius -
- # Jaya Krishna Cuttaree
- # Madan Dulloo
- Morocco - Mohamed Benaissa
- * Western Sahara - Mohamed Salem Ould Salek
- Mozambique -
- #Leonardo Simão
- #Alcinda Abreu
- Namibia - Marco Hausiku
- Niger - Aïchatou Mindaoudou
- Nigeria - Oluyemi Adeniji
- Rwanda - Charles Murigande
- São Tomé and Príncipe - Ovídio Manuel Barbosa Pequeno
- Senegal - Cheikh Tidiane Gadio
- Seychelles -
- # Jérémie Bonnelame
- # Patrick Pillay
- Sierra Leone - Momodu Koroma
- Somalia - Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail
- * Somaliland - Edna Adan Ismail
- South Africa - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
- Sudan -
- # Mustafa Osman Ismail
- # Lam Akol
- Swaziland - Mabili Dlamini
- Tanzania - Jakaya Kikwete
- Togo -
- #Kokou Tozoun
- #Zarifou Ayéva
- Tunisia -
- #Abdelbaki Hermassi
- #Abdelwahab Abdallah
- Uganda -
- #Tom Butime
- #Sam Kutesa
- Zambia -
- #Kalombo Mwansa
- #Ronnie Shikapwasha
- Zimbabwe -
- # Stan Mudenge
- # Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
Asia
- Afghanistan - Abdullah Abdullah
- Armenia - Vartan Oskanian
- Azerbaijan - Elmar Mammadyarov
- * Nagorno-Karabakh -
- *#Arman Melikyan
- *#Georgy Petrosyan
- Bahrain -
- # Sheikh Muhammad ibn Mubarak ibn Hamad Al Khalifah
- # Sheikh Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah
- Bangladesh - Morshed Khan
- Bhutan - Khandu Wangchuk
- Brunei - Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah
- Cambodia - Hor Namhong
- China - Li Zhaoxing
- East Timor - José Ramos-Horta
- Georgia -
- #Salome Zourabichvili
- #Gela Bezhuashvili
- * Abkhazia - Sergei Shamba
- * South Ossetia - Murat Dzhioyev
- India -
- #Natwar Singh
- #Manmohan Singh
- Indonesia - Hassan Wirajuda
- Iran -
- # Kamal Kharazi
- # Manouchehr Mottaki
- Iraq - Hoshyar Zebari
- Israel - Silvan Shalom
- * Palestinian Authority -
- *# Nabil Shaath
- *# Nasser al-Qudwa
- Japan -
- # Nobutaka Machimura
- # Taro Aso
- Jordan -
- # Hani al-Mulki
- # Farouq Qasrawi
- # Abdul Ilah Khatib
- Kazakhstan - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
- North Korea - Paek Nam-sun
- South Korea - Ban Ki-moon
- Kuwait - Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
- Kyrgyzstan -
- # Askar Aitmatov
- # Roza Otunbayeva
- # Alikbek Jekshenkulov
- Laos - Somsavat Lengsavad
- Lebanon -
- #Mahmoud Hammoud
- #Fawzi Salloukh
- Malaysia - Syed Hamid Albar
- Maldives -
- #Fathulla Jameel
- #Ahmed Shaheed
- Mongolia - Tsendiin Mönkh-Orgil
- Myanmar - Nyan Win
- Nepal -
- #Sher Bahadur Deuba
- #Ramesh Nath Pandey
- Oman - Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah
- Pakistan - Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
- Philippines - Alberto Romulo
- Qatar - Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani
- Saudi Arabia - Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Sri Lanka -
- # Lakshman Kadirgamar
- # Anura Bandaranaike
- # Mangala Samaraweera
- Syria - Farouk al-Sharaa
- Taiwan - Mark Chen
- Tajikistan - Talbak Nazarov
- Thailand -
- # Surakiart Sathirathai
- # Kantathi Suphamongkhon
- Turkey - Abdullah Gül
- Turkmenistan - Raşit Meredow
- United Arab Emirates - Rashid Abdullah Al Nuaimi
- Uzbekistan -
- #Sodiq Safoyev
- #Elyor Ganiyev
- Vietnam - Nguyễn Dy Niên
- Yemen - Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
Europe
- Albania -
- # Kastriot Islami
- # Besnik Mustafaj
- Andorra - Juli Minoves Triquell
- Austria - Ursula Plassnik
- Belarus - Sergei Martynov
- Belgium - Karel De Gucht
- * Brussels-Capital Region - Guy Vanhengel
- * Flanders - Geert Bourgeois
- * Wallonia - Marie-Dominique Simonet
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - Mladen Ivanić
- Bulgaria -
- #Solomon Passy
- #Ivailo Kalfin
- Croatia -
- # Miomir Žužul
- # Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
- Cyprus - Georgios Iacovou
- * Northern Cyprus - Serdar Denktaş
- Czech Republic - Cyril Svoboda
- Denmark - Per Stig Møller
- * Greenland - Josef Motzfeldt
- Estonia -
- # Kristiina Ojuland
- # Jaak Jõerüüt
- # Rein Lang
- # Urmas Paet
- Finland - Erkki Tuomioja
- France -
- # Michel Barnier
- # Philippe Douste-Blazy
- Germany -
- #Joschka Fischer
- #Frank-Walter Steinmeier
- Greece - Petros Molyviatis
- Hungary - Ferenc Somogyi
- Iceland -
- # Davíð Oddsson
- # Geir Haarde
- Ireland - Dermot Ahern
- Italy - Gianfranco Fini
- Latvia - Artis Pabriks
- Liechtenstein -
- # Ernst Walch
- # Rita Kieber-Beck
- Lithuania - Antanas Valionis
- Luxembourg - Jean Asselborn
- Macedonia - Ilinka Mitreva
- Malta - Michael Frendo
- Moldova - Andrei Stratan
- * Transnistria - Valeriy Litskai
- Monaco - Rainier Imperti
- Netherlands - Ben Bot
- Norway -
- #Jan Petersen
- #Jonas Gahr Støre
- Poland -
- #Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
- #Adam Daniel Rotfeld
- #Stefan Meller
- Portugal -
- # António Monteiro
- # Diogo de Freitas do Amaral
- Romania - Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu
- Russia - Sergey Lavrov
- San Marino - Fabio Berardi
- Serbia and Montenegro - Vuk Drašković
- * Montenegro - Miodrag Vlahović
- Slovakia - Eduard Kukan
- Slovenia - Dimitrij Rupel
- Spain - Miguel Ángel Moratinos
- Sweden - Laila Freivalds
- Switzerland - Micheline Calmy-Rey
- Ukraine -
- #Kostyantyn Gryshchenko
- #Borys Tarasyuk
- United Kingdom - Jack Straw
- Vatican City - Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo
North America and the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda -
- #Harold Lovell
- #Baldwin Spencer
- The Bahamas - Fred Mitchell
- Barbados - Dame Billie Miller
- Belize - Godfrey Smith
- Canada - Pierre Pettigrew
- * Quebec - Monique Gagnon-Tremblay
- Costa Rica - Roberto Tovar Faja
- Cuba - Felipe Pérez Roque
- Dominica -
- # Osborne Riviere
- # Charles Savarin
- Dominican Republic - Carlos Morales Troncoso
- El Salvador - Francisco Laínez
- Grenada - Elvin Nimrod
- Guatemala - Jorge Briz Abularach
- Haiti -
- #Yvon Siméon
- #Hérard Abraham
- Honduras -
- #Leonidas Rosa Bautista
- #Mario Fortín
- Jamaica - Keith Desmond Knight
- Mexico - Luis Ernesto Derbez
- Netherlands Antilles - Etienne Ys
- Nicaragua - Norman José Caldera Cardenal
- Panama - Samuel Lewis Navarro
- Puerto Rico –
- #Jose Izquierdo Encarnacion
- #Marisara Pont Marchese
- #Fernando Bonilla
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Timothy Harris
- Saint Lucia - Petrus Compton
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- # Louis Straker
- # Mike Browne
- # Louis Straker
- Trinidad and Tobago - Knowlson Gift
- United States -
- #Colin Powell
- #Condoleezza Rice
Oceania
- Australia - Alexander Downer
- Fiji - Kaliopate Tavola
- French Polynesia -
- # Gaston Flosse
- # Oscar Temaru
- Kiribati - Anote Tong
- Marshall Islands - Gerald Zackios
- Micronesia - Sebastian Anefal
- Nauru - David Adeang
- New Zealand -
- #Phil Goff
- #Winston Peters
- * Cook Islands -
- *# Tom Marsters
- *# Wilkie Rasmussen
- * Niue - Young Vivian
- Palau - Temmy Shmull
- Papua New Guinea - Sir Rabbie Namaliu
- Samoa - Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
- Solomon Islands - Laurie Chan
- Tonga - Sonatane Tu'a Taumoepeau Tupou
- Tuvalu - Maatia Toafa
- Vanuatu - Sato Kilman
South America
- Argentina -
- # Rafael Bielsa
- # Jorge Taiana
- Bolivia -
- # Juan Ignacio Siles
- # Armando Loaiza
- Brazil - Celso Amorim
- Chile - Ignacio Walker Prieto
- Colombia - Carolina Barco
- Ecuador -
- # Patricio Zuquilanda
- # Antonio Parra Gil
- # Francisco Carrión
- Guyana - Rudy Insanally
- Paraguay - Leila Rachid de Cowles
- Peru -
- #Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros
- #Fernando Olivera
- #Óscar Maúrtua de Romaña
- Suriname -
- # Marie Levens
- # Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk
- Uruguay -
- # Didier Opertti
- # Reinaldo Gargano
- Venezuela - Alí Rodríguez Araque