List of foreign ministers in 2012
This is a list of foreign ministers in 2012.
Africa
- Algeria - Mourad Medelci
- Angola - Georges Rebelo Chicoti
- Benin - Nassirou Bako Arifari
- Botswana - Phandu Skelemani
- Burkina Faso - Djibril Bassolé
- Burundi - Laurent Kavakure
- Cameroon - Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo
- Cape Verde - Jorge Borges
- Central African Republic - Antoine Gambi
- Chad - Moussa Faki
- Comoros - Mohamed Bakri Ben Abdoulfatah Charif
- Republic of Congo - Basile Ikouébé
- Democratic Republic of Congo -
- # Alexis Thambwe Mwamba
- # Raymond Tshibanda
- Côte d'Ivoire
- #Daniel Kablan Duncan
- #Charles Koffi Diby
- Djibouti - Mahamoud Ali Youssouf
- Egypt - Mohamed Kamel Amr
- Equatorial Guinea -
- # Pastor Micha Ondó Bile
- # Agapito Mba Mokuy
- Eritrea - Osman Saleh Mohammed
- Ethiopia -
- # Hailemariam Desalegn
- # Berhane Gebre-Christos
- # Tedros Adhanom
- Gabon -
- # Paul Toungui
- # Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet
- The Gambia -
- # Mamadou Tangara
- # Mambury Njie
- # Mamadou Tangara
- # Susan Waffa-Ogoo
- Ghana - Muhammad Mumuni
- Guinea
- # Edouard Niankoye Lamah
- # François Lonseny Fall
- Guinea-Bissau -
- # Mamadu Saliu Djaló Pires
- # Faustino Imbali
- Kenya -
- # Moses Wetangula
- # Sam Ongeri
- Lesotho - Mohlabi Tsekoa
- Liberia -
- # Toga McIntosh
- # Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan
- Libya
- #Ashour Bin Khayal
- #Mohammed Abdelaziz
- Madagascar - Pierrot Rajaonarivelo
- Malawi -
- # Peter Mutharika
- # Ephraim Chiume
- Mali -
- # Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga
- # Sadio Lamine Sow
- # Tieman Coulibaly
- * Azawad -
- *#Hama Ag Sid'Ahmed
- *#Hama Ag Mahmoud
- Mauritania - Hamadi Ould Baba Ould Hamadi
- Mauritius - Arvin Boolell
- Morocco -
- # Taieb Fassi Fihri
- # Saadeddine Othmani
- * Western Sahara - Mohamed Salem Ould Salek
- Mozambique - Oldemiro Balói
- Namibia -
- # Utoni Nujoma
- # Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
- Niger - Mohamed Bazoum
- Nigeria - Olugbenga Ashiru
- Rwanda - Louise Mushikiwabo
- São Tomé and Príncipe -
- #Manuel Salvador dos Ramos
- #Natália Pedro da Costa Umbelina Neto
- Senegal -
- # Madické Niang
- # Alioune Badara Cissé
- # Mankeur Ndiaye
- Seychelles - Jean-Paul Adam
- Sierra Leone -
- # J. B. Dauda
- # Samura Kamara
- Somalia -
- # Mohamed Abdullahi Omaar
- # Abdullahi Haji Hassan Mohamed Nuur
- # Fowsiyo Yussuf Haji Aadan
- * Somaliland - Mohammad Abdullahi Omar
- * Puntland - Daud Mohamed Omar
- South Africa - Maite Nkoana-Mashabane
- South Sudan - Nhial Deng Nhial
- Sudan - Ali Karti
- Swaziland - Mtiti Fakudze
- Tanzania – Bernard Membe
- Togo - Elliott Ohin
- Tunisia - Rafik Abdessalem
- Uganda -
- * Sam Kutesa
- * Henry Oryem Okello
- Zambia -
- # Chishimba Kambwili
- # Given Lubinda
- Zimbabwe - Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
Asia
- Afghanistan - Zalmai Rassoul
- Armenia - Eduard Nalbandyan
- Azerbaijan - Elmar Mammadyarov
- * Nagorno-Karabakh -
- *#Vasily Atajanyan
- *#Karen Mirzoyan
- Bahrain - Sheikh Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah
- Bangladesh – Dipu Moni
- Bhutan - Ugyen Tshering
- Brunei - Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah
- Cambodia - Hor Namhong
- China - Yang Jiechi
- East Timor -
- # Zacarias da Costa
- # José Luís Guterres
- Georgia
- # Grigol Vashadze
- # Maia Panjikidze
- * Abkhazia - Viacheslav Chirikba
- * South Ossetia
- *#Murat Dzhioyev
- *#David Sanakoyev
- India
- # S. M. Krishna
- # Salman Khurshid
- Indonesia - Marty Natalegawa
- Iran - Ali Akbar Salehi
- Iraq - Hoshyar Zebari
- * Kurdistan - Falah Mustafa Bakir
- Israel -
- # Avigdor Lieberman
- # Benjamin Netanyahu
- * Palestinian Authority - Riyad al-Maliki
- ** Gaza Strip
- **#Muhammad Awad
- **#Ismail Haniyeh
- Japan -
- # Kōichirō Gemba
- # Fumio Kishida
- Jordan - Nasser Judeh
- Kazakhstan –
- # Yerzhan Kazykhanov
- # Erlan Idrissov
- North Korea - Pak Ui-chun
- South Korea - Kim Sung-hwan
- Kuwait - Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah
- Kyrgyzstan -
- #Ruslan Kazakbayev
- #Erlan Abdyldayev
- Laos - Thongloun Sisoulith
- Lebanon - Adnan Mansour
- Malaysia - Anifah Aman
- Maldives -
- # Ahmed Naseem
- # Abdul Samad Abdulla
- Mongolia -
- # Gombojavyn Zandanshatar
- # Luvsanvandan Bold
- Myanmar - Wunna Maung Lwin
- Nepal - Narayan Kaji Shrestha
- Oman - Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah
- Pakistan - Hina Rabbani Khar
- Philippines - Albert del Rosario
- Qatar - Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani
- Saudi Arabia - Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Sri Lanka - G. L. Peiris
- Syria - Walid Muallem
- Taiwan -
- # Timothy Yang
- # David Lin
- Tajikistan - Khamrokhon Zaripov
- Thailand - Surapong Tovichakchaikul
- Turkey - Ahmet Davutoğlu
- Turkmenistan - Raşit Meredow
- United Arab Emirates - Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan
- Uzbekistan -
- # Elyor Ganiyev
- # Abdulaziz Komilov
- Vietnam - Phạm Bình Minh
- Yemen - Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
Europe
- Albania -
- # Edmond Haxhinasto
- # Edmond Panariti
- Andorra - Gilbert Saboya Sunyé
- Austria - Michael Spindelegger
- Belarus
- # Sergei Martynov
- # Vladimir Makei
- Belgium - Didier Reynders
- * Brussels-Capital Region - Jean-Luc Vanraes
- * Flanders - Kris Peeters
- * Wallonia - Rudy Demotte
- Bosnia and Herzegovina -
- # Sven Alkalaj
- # Zlatko Lagumdžija
- Bulgaria - Nickolay Mladenov
- Croatia - Vesna Pusić
- Cyprus - Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis
- * Northern Cyprus - Hüseyin Özgürgün
- Czech Republic - Karel Schwarzenberg
- Denmark - Villy Søvndal
- * Greenland - Kuupik Kleist
- * Faroe Islands - Kaj Leo Johannesen
- Estonia - Urmas Paet
- Finland - Erkki Tuomioja
- France -
- # Alain Juppé
- # Laurent Fabius
- Germany - Guido Westerwelle
- Greece -
- # Stavros Dimas
- # Petros Molyviatis
- # Dimitris Avramopoulos
- Hungary - János Martonyi
- Iceland - Össur Skarphéðinsson
- Ireland - Eamon Gilmore
- Italy - Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata
- Latvia - Edgars Rinkēvičs
- Liechtenstein - Aurelia Frick
- Lithuania -
- # Audronius Ažubalis
- # Linas Antanas Linkevičius
- Luxembourg - Jean Asselborn
- Macedonia - Nikola Poposki
- Malta
- # Tonio Borg
- # Francis Zammit Dimech
- Moldova - Iurie Leancă
- * Transnistria -
- *# Vladimir Yastrebchak
- *# Nina Shtanski
- Monaco - José Badia
- Montenegro -
- # Milan Roćen
- # Nebojša Kaluđerović
- # Igor Lukšić
- Netherlands -
- # Uri Rosenthal
- # Frans Timmermans
- Norway -
- #Jonas Gahr Støre
- #Espen Barth Eide
- Poland - Radosław Sikorski
- Portugal - Paulo Portas
- Romania -
- # Teodor Baconschi
- # Cristian Diaconescu
- # Andrei Marga
- # Titus Corlăţean
- Russia - Sergey Lavrov
- San Marino
- # Antonella Mularoni
- # Pasquale Valentini
- Serbia -
- # Vuk Jeremić
- # Ivan Mrkić
- * Kosovo - Enver Hoxhaj
- Slovakia -
- # Mikuláš Dzurinda
- # Miroslav Lajčák
- Slovenia -
- # Samuel Žbogar
- # Karl Erjavec
- Spain - José Manuel García-Margallo
- * Catalonia - Francesc Homs Molist
- Sweden - Carl Bildt
- Switzerland - Didier Burkhalter
- Ukraine
- #Kostyantyn Gryshchenko
- #Leonid Kozhara
- United Kingdom - William Hague
- * Scotland - Fiona Hyslop
- Vatican City - Archbishop Dominique Mamberti
North America and the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda - Baldwin Spencer
- The Bahamas -
- # Brent Symonette
- # Fred Mitchell
- Barbados - Maxine McClean
- Belize - Wilfred Elrington
- Canada - John Baird
- * Quebec -
- *#Monique Gagnon-Tremblay
- *#Jean-François Lisée
- Costa Rica - Enrique Castillo
- Cuba - Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
- Dominica - Roosevelt Skerrit
- Dominican Republic - Carlos Morales Troncoso
- El Salvador - Hugo Martínez
- Grenada -
- # Karl Hood
- # Tillman Thomas
- Guatemala -
- # Haroldo Rodas
- # Harold Caballeros
- Haiti -
- # Laurent Lamothe
- # Pierre Richard Casimir
- Honduras - Arturo Corrales
- Jamaica -
- # Kenneth Baugh
- # Arnold Nicholson
- Mexico
- #Patricia Espinosa
- #José Antonio Meade Kuribreña
- Nicaragua - Samuel Santos López
- Panama -
- #Roberto Henríquez
- #Francisco Álvarez De Soto
- #Rómulo Roux
- Puerto Rico – Kenneth McClintock
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Sam Condor
- Saint Lucia - Alva Baptiste
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Douglas Slater
- Trinidad and Tobago -
- # Surujrattan Rambachan
- # Winston Dookeran
- United States of America - Hillary Clinton
Oceania
- Australia -
- # Kevin Rudd
- # Craig Emerson
- # Bob Carr
- Fiji - Ratu Inoke Kubuabola
- French Polynesia - Oscar Temaru
- Kiribati - Anote Tong
- Marshall Islands -
- # John Silk
- # Phillip H. Muller
- Micronesia - Lorin S. Robert
- Nauru -
- # Sprent Dabwido
- # Kieren Keke
- New Zealand - Murray McCully
- * Cook Islands - Tom Marsters
- * Niue - Toke Talagi
- * Tokelau -
- *# Foua Toloa
- *# Kerisiano Kalolo
- Palau - Victor Yano
- Papua New Guinea -
- #Ano Pala / Paru Aihi
- # Sir Puka Temu
- # Rimbink Pato
- Samoa - Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
- Solomon Islands -
- # Peter Shanel Agovaka
- # Clay Forau Soalaoi
- Tonga - Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō
- Tuvalu - Apisai Ielemia
- Vanuatu - Alfred Carlot
South America
- Argentina - Héctor Timerman
- Bolivia - David Choquehuanca
- Brazil - Antonio Patriota
- Chile - Alfredo Moreno Charme
- Colombia - María Ángela Holguín
- Ecuador - Ricardo Patiño
- Guyana - Carolyn Rodrigues
- Paraguay -
- #Jorge Lara Castro
- #José Félix Fernández Estigarribia
- Peru - Rafael Roncagliolo
- Suriname - Winston Lackin
- Uruguay - Luis Almagro
- Venezuela - Nicolás Maduro