List of foreign ministers in 2001
This is a list of foreign ministers in 2001.
Africa
- Algeria - Abdelaziz Belkhadem
- Angola - João Bernardo de Miranda
- Benin - Antoine Idji Kolawolé
- Botswana - Mompati Merafhe
- Burkina Faso - Youssouf Ouedraogo
- Burundi -
- # Severin Ntahomvukiye
- # Thérence Sinunguruza
- Cameroon -
- # Augustin Kontchou Kouomegni
- # François Xavier Ngoubeyou
- Cape Verde -
- # Rui Alberto de Figueiredo Soares
- # Manuel Inocêncio Sousa
- Central African Republic -
- # Marcel Metefara
- # Agba Otikpo Mézodé
- Chad - Mahamat Saleh Annadif
- Comoros - Mohamed El-Amine Souef
- Republic of Congo - Rodolphe Adada
- Democratic Republic of Congo - Léonard She Okitundu
- Côte d'Ivoire - Abou Drahamane Sangare
- Djibouti - Ali Abdi Farah
- Egypt -
- # Amr Moussa
- # Ahmed Maher
- Equatorial Guinea - Santiago Nsobeya Efuman
- Eritrea - Ali Said Abdella
- Ethiopia - Seyoum Mesfin
- Gabon - Jean Ping
- The Gambia -
- # Momodou Lamin Sedat Jobe
- # Baboucarr-Blaise Jagne
- Ghana -
- # James Victor Gbeho
- # Hackman Owusu-Agyeman
- Guinea - Mahawa Bangoura
- Guinea-Bissau -
- # Yaya Diallo
- # Faustino Imbali
- # Antonieta Rosa Gomes
- # Malam Mané
- # Filomena Mascarenhas Tipote
- Kenya -
- # Bonaya Godana
- # Christopher Obure
- # Marsden Madoka
- Lesotho - Tom Thabane
- Liberia - Monie Captan
- Libya - Abdel Rahman Shalgham
- Madagascar - Lila Ratsifandrihamanana
- Malawi - Lilian Patel
- Mali - Modibo Sidibe
- Mauritania -
- # Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed
- # Dah Ould Abdi
- Mauritius - Anil Gayan
- Morocco - Mohamed Benaissa
- * Western Sahara - Mohamed Salem Ould Salek
- Mozambique - Leonardo Simão
- Namibia - Theo-Ben Gurirab
- Niger -
- # Nassirou Sabo
- # Aïchatou Mindaoudou
- Nigeria - Sule Lamido
- Rwanda - André Bumaya
- São Tomé and Príncipe -
- # Joaquim Rafael Branco
- # Patrice Trovoada
- Senegal - Cheikh Tidiane Gadio
- Seychelles - Jérémie Bonnelame
- Sierra Leone -
- # Sama Banya
- # Ahmed Ramadan Dumbuya
- Somalia - Ismail Mahmud Hurre
- * Somaliland -
- *# Mahmud Salah Nur
- *# Abdihamid Garad Jama
- South Africa - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
- Sudan - Mustafa Osman Ismail
- Swaziland -
- # Albert Nhlanhla Shabangu
- # Abednego Ntshangase
- Tanzania - Jakaya Kikwete
- Togo - Joseph Kokou Koffigoh
- Tunisia - Habib Ben Yahia
- Uganda -
- # Eriya Kategaya
- # James Wapakhabulo
- Zambia - Keli Walubita
- Zimbabwe - Stan Mudenge
Asia
- Afghanistan -
- # Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil
- # Abdullah Abdullah
- Armenia - Vartan Oskanian
- Azerbaijan - Vilayat Guliyev
- * Nagorno-Karabakh - Naira Melkumyan
- Bahrain - Sheikh Muhammad ibn Mubarak ibn Hamad Al Khalifah
- Bangladesh -
- # Abdus Samad Azad
- # Latifur Rahman
- # A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury
- # Morshed Khan
- Bhutan - Jigme Thinley
- Brunei - Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah
- Cambodia - Hor Namhong
- China - Tang Jiaxuan
- East Timor - José Ramos-Horta
- Georgia - Irakli Menagarishvili
- * Abkhazia - Sergei Shamba
- * South Ossetia - Murat Dzhioyev
- India - Jaswant Singh
- Indonesia -
- # Alwi Shihab
- # Hassan Wirajuda
- Iran - Kamal Kharazi
- Iraq -
- # Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
- # Tariq Aziz
- # Naji Sabri
- Israel -
- # Shlomo Ben-Ami
- # Shimon Peres
- Japan -
- # Yōhei Kōno
- # Makiko Tanaka
- Jordan - Abdul Ilah Khatib
- Kazakhstan - Erlan Idrisov
- North Korea - Paek Nam-sun
- South Korea -
- # Yi Jeong-bin
- # Han Seung-soo
- Kuwait - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
- Kyrgyzstan - Muratbek Imanaliyev
- Laos - Somsavat Lengsavad
- Lebanon - Mahmoud Hammoud
- Malaysia - Syed Hamid Albar
- Maldives - Fathulla Jameel
- Mongolia - Luvsangiin Erdenechuluun
- Myanmar - Win Aung
- Nepal -
- # Chakra Bastola
- # Sher Bahadur Deuba
- Oman - Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah
- Pakistan - Abdul Sattar
- Philippines -
- # Domingo Siazon, Jr.
- # Teofisto Guingona, 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
- # Tyronne Fernando
- Syria - Farouk al-Sharaa
- Taiwan - Tien Hung-mao
- Tajikistan - Talbak Nazarov
- Thailand -
- # Surin Pitsuwan
- # Surakiart Sathirathai
- Turkey - İsmail Cem
- Turkmenistan -
- # Batyr Berdiýew
- # Raşit Meredow
- United Arab Emirates - Rashid Abdullah Al Nuaimi
- Uzbekistan - Abdulaziz Komilov
- Vietnam - Nguyễn Dy Niên
- Yemen -
- # Abdul Qadir Bajamal
- # Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
Australia and Oceania
- Australia - Alexander Downer
- Fiji - Kaliopate Tavola
- French Polynesia - Gaston Flosse
- Kiribati - Teburoro Tito
- Marshall Islands -
- # Alvin Jacklick
- # Gerald Zackios
- Micronesia - Ieske K. Iehsi
- Nauru -
- # Bernard Dowiyogo
- # René Harris
- New Zealand - Phil Goff
- * Cook Islands - Robert Woonton
- * Niue - Sani Lakatani
- Palau - Temmy Shmull
- Papua New Guinea -
- # Bart Philemon
- # John Pundari
- # John Waiko
- Samoa - Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi
- Solomon Islands -
- # Danny Philip
- # David Sitai
- # Alex Bartlett
- Tonga - Prince 'Ulukalala Lavaka Ata
- Tuvalu -
- # Lagitupu Tuilimu
- # Faimalaga Luka
- # Koloa Talake
- Vanuatu -
- # Serge Vohor
- # Alain Mahe
Europe
- Albania -
- # Paskal Milo
- # Arta Dade
- Andorra -
- # Albert Pintat
- # Juli Minoves Triquell
- Austria - Benita Ferrero-Waldner
- Belarus - Mikhail Khvostov
- Belgium - Louis Michel
- * Brussels-Capital Region - Guy Vanhengel
- * Flanders -
- *# Patrick Dewael
- *# Paul Van Grembergen
- Bosnia and Herzegovina -
- # Jadranko Prlić
- # Zlatko Lagumdžija
- Bulgaria -
- # Nadezhda Mihailova
- # Solomon Passy
- Croatia - Tonino Picula
- Cyprus - Ioannis Kasoulidis
- * Northern Cyprus - Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu
- Czech Republic - Jan Kavan
- Denmark -
- # Mogens Lykketoft
- # Per Stig Møller
- Estonia - Toomas Hendrik Ilves
- Finland - Erkki Tuomioja
- France - Hubert Védrine
- Germany - Joschka Fischer
- Greece - George Papandreou
- Hungary - János Martonyi
- Iceland - Halldór Ásgrímsson
- Ireland - Brian Cowen
- Italy -
- # Lamberto Dini
- # Renato Ruggiero
- Latvia - Indulis Bērziņš
- Liechtenstein -
- # Andrea Willi
- # Ernst Walch
- Lithuania - Antanas Valionis
- Luxembourg - Lydie Polfer
- Macedonia -
- # Srgjan Kerim
- # Ilinka Mitreva
- # Slobodan Čašule
- Malta - Joe Borg
- Moldova -
- # Nicolae Cernomaz
- # Iurie Leancă
- # Nicolae Dudău
- * Transnistria - Valeriy Litskai
- Netherlands - Jozias van Aartsen
- Norway -
- # Thorbjørn Jagland
- # Jan Petersen
- Poland -
- # Władysław Bartoszewski
- # Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
- Portugal - Jaime Gama
- Romania - Mircea Geoană
- Russia - Igor Ivanov
- San Marino - Gabriele Gatti
- Slovakia - Eduard Kukan
- Slovenia - Dimitrij Rupel
- Spain - Josep Piqué
- Sweden - Anna Lindh
- Switzerland - Joseph Deiss
- Ukraine - Anatoliy Zlenko
- United Kingdom -
- # Robin Cook
- # Jack Straw
- * Scotland - Jack McConnell
- Vatican City - Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran
- Yugoslavia - Goran Svilanović
- * Montenegro - Branko Lukovac
North America and the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda - Lester Bird
- The Bahamas - Janet Bostwick
- Barbados - Billie Miller
- Belize - Said Musa
- Canada - John Manley
- * Quebec - Louise Beaudoin
- Costa Rica - Roberto Rojas López
- Cuba - Felipe Pérez Roque
- Dominica -
- # Pierre Charles
- # Osborne Riviere
- Dominican Republic - Hugo Tolentino Dipp
- El Salvador - María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila
- Grenada - Elvin Nimrod
- Guatemala - Gabriel Orellana Rojas
- Haiti -
- # Fritz Longchamp
- # Joseph Philippe Antonio
- Honduras - Roberto Flores Bermúdez
- Jamaica -
- # Paul Robertson
- # Keith Desmond Knight
- Mexico - Jorge Castañeda Gutman
- Nicaragua - Francisco Aguirre Sacasa
- Panama - José Miguel Alemán Healy
- Saint Kitts and Nevis -
- # Sam Condor
- # Timothy Harris
- Saint Lucia -
- # George Odlum
- # Julian Hunte
- Puerto Rico –
- #Angel Morey
- #Ferdinand Mercado
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -
- # Allan Cruickshank
- # Louis Straker
- Trinidad and Tobago -
- # Mervyn Assam
- # Knowlson Gift
- United States -
- # Madeleine Albright
- # Colin Powell
South America
- Argentina -
- # Adalberto Rodríguez Giavarini
- # José María Vernet
- Bolivia -
- # Javier Murillo de la Rocha
- # Gustavo Fernández Saavedra
- Brazil -
- # Luiz Felipe Palmeira Lampreia
- # Luiz Felipe de Seixas Corrêa
- # Celso Lafer
- Chile - Soledad Alvear
- Colombia - Guillermo Fernández de Soto
- Ecuador - Heinz Moeller Freile
- Guyana -
- # Clement Rohee
- # Rudy Insanally
- Paraguay -
- # Juan Esteban Aguirre Martínez
- # José Antonio Moreno Ruffinelli
- Peru -
- # Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
- # Diego García Sayán
- Suriname - Marie Levens
- Uruguay - Didier Opertti
- Venezuela -
- # José Vicente Rangel
- # Luis Alfonso Dávila