List of foreign ministers in 1998
This is a list of foreign ministers in 1998.
Africa
- Algeria - Ahmed Attaf
- Angola - Venâncio da Silva Moura
- Benin -
- #Pierre Osho
- #Antoine Idji Kolawolé
- Botswana - Mompati Merafhe
- Burkina Faso - Ablassé Ouedraogo
- Burundi -
- #Luc Rukingama
- #Severin Ntahomvukiye
- Cameroon - Augustin Kontchou Kouomegni
- Cape Verde -
- #Amílcar Spencer Lopes
- #José Luís de Jesus
- Central African Republic - Jean-Mette Yapende
- Chad - Mahamat Saleh Annadif
- Comoros -
- #Ibrahim Ali Mzimba
- #Salim Himidi
- #Nidhoim Attoumane
- Republic of Congo - Rodolphe Adada
- Democratic Republic of Congo -
- #Bizima Karaha
- #Jean-Charles Okoto
- Côte d'Ivoire - Amara Essy
- Djibouti - Mohamed Moussa Chehem
- Egypt - Amr Moussa
- Equatorial Guinea - Miguel Oyono Ndong Mifumu
- Eritrea - Haile Woldetensae
- Ethiopia - Seyoum Mesfin
- Gabon - Casimir Oyé-Mba
- The Gambia -
- #Omar Njie
- #Momodou Lamin Sedat Jobe
- Ghana - Victor Gbeho
- Guinea - Lamine Camara
- Guinea-Bissau - Fernando Delfim da Silva
- Kenya -
- #Kalonzo Musyoka
- #Bonaya Godana
- Lesotho -
- #Kelebone Maope
- #Tom Thabane
- Liberia - Monie Captan
- Libya - Umar Mustafa al-Muntasir
- Madagascar -
- #Herizo Razafimahaleo
- #Lila Ratsifandrihamanana
- Malawi - Mapopa Chipeta
- Mali - Modibo Sidibe
- Mauritania -
- #Mohamed El Hacen Ould Lebatt
- #Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna
- #Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed
- Mauritius - Rajkeswur Purryag
- Morocco - Abdellatif Filali
- * Western Sahara -
- *#Bachir Mustafa Sayed
- *#Mohamed Salem Ould Salek
- Mozambique - Leonardo Simão
- Namibia - Theo-Ben Gurirab
- Niger - Maman Sambo Sidikou
- Nigeria -
- #Tom Ikimi
- #Ignatius Olisemeka
- Rwanda - Anastase Gasana
- São Tomé and Príncipe - Homero Jeronimo Salvaterra
- Senegal -
- #Moustapha Niasse
- #Jacques Baudin
- Seychelles - Jérémie Bonnelame
- Sierra Leone -
- #Paolo Bangura
- #Sama Banya
- Somalia - no central government
- * Somaliland - Mahmud Salah Nur
- South Africa - Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo
- Sudan -
- #Ali Osman Taha
- #Mustafa Osman Ismail
- Swaziland -
- #Arthur Khoza
- #Albert Nhlanhla Shabangu
- Tanzania - Jakaya Kikwete
- Togo -
- #Koffi Panou
- #Joseph Kokou Koffigoh
- Tunisia - Said Ben Mustapha
- Uganda - Eriya Kategaya
- Zambia - Keli Walubita
- Zimbabwe - Stan Mudenge
Asia
- Afghanistan -
- #Mullah Abdul Jalil
- #Mullah Mohammad Hassan
- Armenia -
- #Alexander Arzumanyan
- #Vartan Oskanian
- Azerbaijan -
- #Hasan Hasanov
- #Tofig Zulfugarov
- * Nagorno-Karabakh - Naira Melkumyan
- Bahrain - Sheikh Muhammad ibn Mubarak ibn Hamad Al Khalifah
- Bangladesh - Abdus Samad Azad
- Bhutan -
- #Dawa Tsering
- #Jigme Thinley
- Brunei - Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah
- Cambodia -
- #Ung Huot
- #Hor Namhong
- China -
- #Qian Qichen
- #Tang Jiaxuan
- Georgia - Irakli Menagarishvili
- * Abkhazia - Sergei Shamba
- * South Ossetia - Murat Dzhioyev
- India -
- #I. K. Gujral
- #Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- #Jaswant Singh
- Indonesia - Ali Alatas
- Iran - Kamal Kharazi
- Iraq - Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
- Israel -
- #David Levy
- #Benjamin Netanyahu
- #Ariel Sharon
- Japan -
- #Keizō Obuchi
- #Masahiko Kōmura
- Jordan -
- #Fayez al-Tarawneh
- #Jawad Anani
- #Abdul Ilah Khatib
- Kazakhstan - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
- North Korea -
- #Kim Yong-nam
- #Paek Nam-sun
- South Korea -
- #Yu Jong-ha
- #Bak Jeong-su
- #Hong Soon-young
- Kuwait - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
- Kyrgyzstan - Muratbek Imanaliyev
- Laos - Somsavat Lengsavad
- Lebanon -
- #Farès Boueiz
- #Selim al-Hoss
- Malaysia - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
- Maldives - Fathulla Jameel
- Mongolia -
- #Shukher Altangerel
- #Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal
- #Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa
- Myanmar -
- #Ohn Gyaw
- #Win Aung
- Nepal -
- #Kamal Thapa
- #Girija Prasad Koirala
- Oman - Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah
- Pakistan -
- #Gohar Ayub Khan
- #Sartaj Aziz
- 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 - Jason Hu
- Tajikistan - Talbak Nazarov
- Thailand - Surin Pitsuwan
- Turkey - 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
- #Abdul Qadir Bajamal
Australia and Oceania
- Australia - Alexander Downer
- Fiji - Berenado Vunibobo
- Kiribati - Teburoro Tito
- Marshall Islands - Phillip H. Muller
- Micronesia - Epel K. Ilon
- Nauru -
- #Kinza Clodumar
- #Bernard Dowiyogo
- New Zealand - Don McKinnon
- * Cook Islands - Inatio Akaruru
- Palau - Sabino Anastacio
- Papua New Guinea - Roy Yaki
- Samoa -
- #Tofilau Eti Alesana
- #Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi
- Solomon Islands - Patterson Oti
- Tonga -
- #Prince Tupouto'a Tungi
- #Baron Vaea
- #Prince 'Ulukalala Lavaka Ata
- Tuvalu - Bikenibeu Paeniu
- Vanuatu -
- #Vital Soksok
- #Donald Kalpokas
- #Clement Leo
Europe
- Albania - Paskal Milo
- Andorra - Albert Pintat
- Austria - Wolfgang Schüssel
- Belarus -
- #Ivan Antanovich
- #Ural Latypov
- 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 - Nadezhda Mihailova
- Croatia - Mate Granić
- Cyprus - Ioannis Kasoulidis
- * Northern Cyprus -
- *# Taner Etkin
- *# Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu
- Czech Republic -
- #Jaroslav Šedivý
- #Jan Kavan
- Denmark - Niels Helveg Petersen
- Estonia -
- #Toomas Hendrik Ilves
- #Raul Mälk
- Finland - Tarja Halonen
- France - Hubert Védrine
- Germany -
- #Klaus Kinkel
- #Joschka Fischer
- Greece - Theodoros Pangalos
- Hungary -
- #László Kovács
- #János Martonyi
- Iceland - Halldór Ásgrímsson
- Ireland - David Andrews
- Italy - Lamberto Dini
- Latvia - Valdis Birkavs
- Liechtenstein - Andrea Willi
- Lithuania - Algirdas Saudargas
- Luxembourg - Jacques Poos
- Macedonia -
- #Blagoje Handžiski
- #Aleksandar Dimitrov
- Malta -
- #George Vella
- #Guido de Marco
- Moldova - Nicolae Tăbăcaru
- Netherlands -
- #Hans van Mierlo
- #Jozias van Aartsen
- Norway - Knut Vollebæk
- Poland - Bronisław Geremek
- Portugal - Jaime Gama
- Romania - Andrei Pleşu
- Russia -
- #Yevgeny Primakov
- #Igor Ivanov
- * Chechnya -
- *# Movladi Udugo
- *# Akhyad Idigov
- San Marino - Gabriele Gatti
- Slovakia -
- #Zdenka Kramplová
- #Eduard Kukan
- Slovenia - Boris Frlec
- Spain - Abel Matutes
- Sweden -
- #Lena Hjelm-Wallén
- #Anna Lindh
- Switzerland - Flavio Cotti
- Ukraine -
- # Hennadiy Udovenko
- # Borys Tarasyuk
- United Kingdom - Robin Cook
- Vatican City - Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran
- Yugoslavia -
- #Milan Milutinović
- #Živadin Jovanović
- * Montenegro - Branko Perović
North America and the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda - Lester Bird
- The Bahamas - Janet Bostwick
- Barbados - Billie Miller
- Belize -
- #Dean Barrow
- #Said Musa
- Canada - Lloyd Axworthy
- * Quebec -
- *# Sylvain Simard
- *# Louise Beaudoin
- Costa Rica -
- #Fernando Naranjo Villalobos
- #Roberto Rojas López
- Cuba - Roberto Robaina
- Dominica -
- #Edison James
- #Norris Charles
- Dominican Republic - Eduardo Latorre Rodríguez
- El Salvador - Ramón Ernesto González Giner
- Grenada -
- #Raphael Fletcher
- #Mark Isaac
- Guatemala - Eduardo Stein
- Haiti - Fritz Longchamp
- Honduras -
- #Delmer Urbizo Panting
- #Fernando Martínez Jiménez
- Jamaica - Seymour Mullings
- Mexico -
- #José Ángel Gurría
- #Rosario Green
- Nicaragua -
- #Emilio Álvarez Montalván
- #Eduardo Montealegre
- Panama -
- #Ricardo Alberto Arias
- #Jorge Eduardo Ritter
- Puerto Rico – Norma Burgos
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Denzil Douglas
- Saint Lucia - George Odlum
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -
- #Alpian Allen
- #Allan Cruickshank
- Trinidad and Tobago - Ralph Maraj
- United States - Madeleine Albright
South America
- Argentina - Guido di Tella
- Bolivia - Javier Murillo de la Rocha
- Brazil - Luiz Felipe Palmeira Lampreia
- Chile - José Miguel Insulza
- Colombia -
- #María Emma Mejía Vélez
- #Camilo Reyes
- #Guillermo Fernández de Soto
- Ecuador - José Ayala Lasso
- Guyana - Clement Rohee
- Paraguay -
- #Rubén Melgarejo Lanzoni
- #Dido Florentin Bogado
- Peru -
- #Eduardo Ferrero Costa
- #Fernando de Trazegnies
- Suriname - Errol Snijders
- Uruguay -
- #Álvaro Ramos Trigo
- #Didier Opertti
- Venezuela - Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas