List of foreign ministers in 2006
This is a list of foreign ministers in 2006.
Africa
- Algeria - Mohammed Bedjaoui
- Angola - João Bernardo de Miranda
- Benin -
- # Rogatien Biaou
- # Frédéric Dohou,
- # Mariam Aladji Boni Diallo
- Botswana - Mompati Merafhe
- Burkina Faso - Youssouf Ouédraogo
- Burundi - Antoinette Batumubwira
- Cameroon -
- # Laurent Esso
- # Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara
- Cape Verde - Víctor Borges
- Central African Republic -
- # Jean-Paul Ngoupandé
- # Côme Zoumara
- Chad - Ahmad Allam-Mi
- Comoros -
- # Aboudou Soefou
- # Ahmed Ben Said Jaffar
- Republic of Congo - Rodolphe Adada
- Democratic Republic of Congo - Raymond Ramazani Baya
- Côte d'Ivoire -
- #Bamba Mamadou
- #Youssouf Bakayoko
- Djibouti - Mahamoud Ali Youssouf
- Egypt - Ahmed Aboul Gheit
- Equatorial Guinea - Pastor Micha Ondó Bile
- Eritrea - Mohamed Omer
- Ethiopia - Seyoum Mesfin
- Gabon - Jean Ping
- The Gambia -
- # Lamin Kaba Bajo
- # Bala Garba Jahumpa
- Ghana - Nana Akufo-Addo
- Guinea -
- # Fatoumata Kaba
- # Mamady Condé
- Guinea-Bissau - António Isaac Monteiro
- Kenya - Raphael Tuju
- Lesotho - Monyane Moleleki
- Liberia -
- # Thomas Nimely
- # George Wallace
- Libya - Abdel Rahman Shalgham
- Madagascar - Marcel Ranjeva
- Malawi -
- # Davis Katsonga
- # Joyce Banda
- Mali - Moctar Ouane
- Mauritania - Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed
- Mauritius - Madan Dulloo
- Morocco - Mohamed Benaissa
- * Western Sahara - Mohamed Salem Ould Salek
- Mozambique - Alcinda Abreu
- Namibia - Marco Hausiku
- Niger - Aïchatou Mindaoudou
- Nigeria -
- # Oluyemi Adeniji
- # Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
- # Joy Ogwu
- Rwanda - Charles Murigande
- São Tomé and Príncipe -
- # Ovídio Manuel Barbosa Pequeno
- # Óscar Sousa
- # Carlos Gustavo dos Anjos
- Senegal - Cheikh Tidiane Gadio
- Seychelles - Patrick Pillay
- Sierra Leone - Momodu Koroma
- Somalia -
- # Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail
- # Ismail Mahmud Hurre
- * Somaliland -
- *# Edna Adan Ismail
- *# Abdillahi Mohamed Duale
- South Africa - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
- Sudan - Lam Akol
- Swaziland -
- # Mabili Dlamini
- # Moses Mathendele Dlamini
- Tanzania -
- #Jakaya Kikwete
- #Asha-Rose Migiro
- Togo - Zarifou Ayéva
- Tunisia - Abdelwahab Abdallah
- Uganda - Sam Kutesa
- Zambia -
- # Ronnie Shikapwasha
- # Mundia Sikatana
- Zimbabwe - Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
Asia
- Afghanistan -
- # Abdullah Abdullah
- # Rangin Dadfar Spanta
- Armenia - Vartan Oskanian
- Azerbaijan - Elmar Mammadyarov
- * Nagorno-Karabakh - Georgy Petrosyan
- Bahrain - Sheikh Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah
- Bangladesh -
- # Morshed Khan
- # Iajuddin Ahmed
- Bhutan - Khandu Wangchuk
- Brunei - Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah
- Cambodia - Hor Namhong
- China - Li Zhaoxing
- East Timor -
- # José Ramos-Horta
- # José Luís Guterres
- Georgia - Gela Bezhuashvili
- * Abkhazia - Sergei Shamba
- * South Ossetia - Murat Dzhioyev
- India -
- # Manmohan Singh
- # Pranab Mukherjee
- Indonesia - Hassan Wirajuda
- Iran - Manouchehr Mottaki
- Iraq - Hoshyar Zebari
- * Kurdistan - Falah Mustafa Bakir
- Israel -
- # Silvan Shalom
- # Tzipi Livni
- * Palestinian Authority -
- *# Nasser al-Qudwa
- *# Mahmoud al-Zahar
- Japan - Taro Aso
- Jordan - Abdul Ilah Khatib
- Kazakhstan - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
- North Korea - Paek Nam-sun
- South Korea -
- # Ban Ki-moon
- # Song Min-soon
- Kuwait - Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
- Kyrgyzstan - Alikbek Jekshenkulov
- Laos -
- # Somsavat Lengsavad
- # Thongloun Sisoulith
- Lebanon -
- * Fawzi Salloukh
- * Tarek Mitri
- Malaysia - Syed Hamid Albar
- Maldives - Ahmed Shaheed
- Mongolia -
- # Tsendiin Mönkh-Orgil
- # Nyamaa Enkhbold
- Myanmar - Nyan Win
- Nepal -
- # Ramesh Nath Pandey
- # Khadga Prasad Oli
- 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
- Singapore - George Yeo
- Sri Lanka - Mangala Samaraweera
- Syria -
- #Farouk al-Sharaa
- #Walid Muallem
- Taiwan -
- #Mark Chen
- #James Huang
- Tajikistan -
- # Talbak Nazarov
- # Khamrokhon Zaripov
- Thailand -
- #Kantathi Suphamongkhon
- #Nitya Pibulsonggram
- Turkmenistan - Raşit Meredow
- United Arab Emirates -
- # Rashid Abdullah Al Nuaimi
- # Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan
- Uzbekistan -
- # Elyor Ganiyev
- # Vladimir Norov
- Vietnam -
- # Nguyễn Dy Niên
- # Phạm Gia Khiêm
- Yemen - Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
Europe
- Albania - 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 - Ivailo Kalfin
- Croatia - Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
- Cyprus -
- #Georgios Iacovou
- #Giorgos Lillikas
- * Northern Cyprus -
- *# Serdar Denktaş
- *# Turgay Avcı
- Czech Republic -
- #Cyril Svoboda
- #Alexandr Vondra
- Denmark - Per Stig Møller
- * Greenland - Josef Motzfeldt
- Estonia - Urmas Paet
- Finland - Erkki Tuomioja
- France - Philippe Douste-Blazy
- Germany - Frank-Walter Steinmeier
- Greece -
- #Petros Molyviatis
- #Dora Bakoyannis
- Hungary -
- #Ferenc Somogyi
- #Kinga Göncz
- Iceland -
- #Geir Haarde
- #Valgerður Sverrisdóttir
- Ireland - Dermot Ahern
- Italy -
- # Gianfranco Fini
- # Massimo D'Alema
- Latvia - Artis Pabriks
- Liechtenstein - Rita Kieber-Beck
- Lithuania -
- #Antanas Valionis
- #Petras Vaitiekūnas
- Luxembourg - Jean Asselborn
- Macedonia -
- #Ilinka Mitreva
- #Antonio Milošoski
- Malta - Michael Frendo
- Moldova - Andrei Stratan
- * Transnistria - Valeriy Litskai
- Monaco -
- #Rainier Imperti
- #Henri Fissore
- Montenegro -
- #Miodrag Vlahović
- #Milan Roćen
- Netherlands - Ben Bot
- Norway - Jonas Gahr Støre
- Poland -
- #Stefan Meller
- #Anna Fotyga
- Portugal -
- #Diogo de Freitas do Amaral
- #Luís Amado
- Romania - Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu
- Russia - Sergey Lavrov
- San Marino -
- #Fabio Berardi
- #Fiorenzo Stolfi
- Serbia - Vuk Drašković
- Serbia and Montenegro - Vuk Drašković
- * Montenegro - Miodrag Vlahović
- Slovakia -
- #Eduard Kukan
- #Ján Kubiš
- Slovenia - Dimitrij Rupel
- Spain - Miguel Ángel Moratinos
- Sweden -
- #Laila Freivalds
- #Bosse Ringholm
- #Carin Jämtin
- #Jan Eliasson
- #Carl Bildt
- Switzerland - Micheline Calmy-Rey
- Turkey - Abdullah Gül
- Ukraine - Borys Tarasyuk
- United Kingdom -
- #Jack Straw
- #Margaret Beckett
- Vatican City -
- # Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo
- # Archbishop Dominique Mamberti
North America and the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda - Baldwin Spencer
- The Bahamas - Fred Mitchell
- Barbados - Dame Billie Miller
- Belize -
- # Godfrey Smith
- # Eamon Courtenay
- Canada -
- #Pierre Pettigrew
- #Peter MacKay
- * Quebec - Monique Gagnon-Tremblay
- Costa Rica -
- #Roberto Tovar Faja
- #Bruno Stagno Ugarte
- Cuba - Felipe Pérez Roque
- Dominica - Charles Savarin
- Dominican Republic - Carlos Morales Troncoso
- El Salvador - Francisco Laínez
- Grenada - Elvin Nimrod
- Guatemala -
- #Jorge Briz Abularach
- #Gert Rosenthal
- Haiti -
- #Hérard Abraham
- #Jean Rénald Clérismé
- Honduras -
- #Mario Fortín
- #Milton Jiménez
- Jamaica -
- #Keith Desmond Knight
- #Anthony Hylton
- Mexico -
- #Luis Ernesto Derbez
- #Patricia Espinosa
- Netherlands Antilles -
- #Etienne Ys
- #Emily de Jongh-Elhage
- Nicaragua - Norman José Caldera Cardenal
- Panama - Samuel Lewis Navarro
- Puerto Rico – Fernando Bonilla
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Timothy Harris
- Saint Lucia -
- # Petrus Compton
- # Rufus Bousquet
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Sir Louis Straker
- Trinidad and Tobago -
- #Knowlson Gift
- #Arnold Piggott
- United States - Condoleezza Rice
Oceania
- Australia - Alexander Downer
- Fiji -
- # Kaliopate Tavola
- # Isikeli Mataitoga
- French Polynesia -
- # Oscar Temaru
- # Gaston Tong Sang
- Kiribati - Anote Tong
- Marshall Islands - Gerald Zackios
- Micronesia - Sebastian Anefal
- Nauru - David Adeang
- New Zealand - Winston Peters
- * Cook Islands - Wilkie Rasmussen
- * Niue - Young Vivian
- Palau - Temmy Shmull
- Papua New Guinea -
- # Sir Rabbie Namaliu
- # Sir Michael Somare
- # Paul Tiensten
- Samoa - Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
- Solomon Islands -
- # Laurie Chan
- # Patteson Oti
- Tonga - Sonatane Tu'a Taumoepeau Tupou
- Tuvalu -
- # Maatia Toafa
- # Apisai Ielemia
- Vanuatu - Sato Kilman
South America
- Argentina - Jorge Taiana
- Bolivia -
- #Armando Loaiza
- #David Choquehuanca
- Brazil - Celso Amorim
- Chile -
- #Ignacio Walker Prieto
- #Alejandro Foxley
- Colombia -
- #Carolina Barco
- #María Consuelo Araújo
- Ecuador - Francisco Carrión
- Guyana - Rudy Insanally
- Paraguay -
- #Leila Rachid de Cowles
- #Rubén Ramírez Lezcano
- Peru -
- #Óscar Maúrtua de Romaña
- #José Antonio García Belaúnde
- Suriname - Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk
- Uruguay - Reinaldo Gargano
- Venezuela -
- #Alí Rodríguez Araque
- #Nicolás Maduro