List of foreign ministers in 2003
This is a list of foreign ministers in 2003.
Africa
- Algeria - Abdelaziz Belkhadem
- Angola - João Bernardo de Miranda
- Benin -
- # Antoine Idji Kolawolé
- # Joseph Gnonlonfoun
- # Rogatien Biaou
- Botswana - Mompati Merafhe
- Burkina Faso - Youssouf Ouedraogo
- Burundi - Terence Sinunguruza
- Cameroon - François Xavier Ngoubeyou
- Cape Verde - Fátima Veiga
- Central African Republic -
- # Agba Otikpo Mézodé
- # Martial Beti Marace
- # Karim Meckassoua
- # Charles Wénézoui
- Chad -
- # Mahamat Saleh Annadif
- # Nagoum Yamassoum
- Comoros - Mohamed El-Amine Souef
- Republic of Congo - Rodolphe Adada
- Democratic Republic of Congo -
- # Léonard She Okitundu
- # Antoine Ghonda
- Côte d'Ivoire -
- # Abou Drahamane Sangare
- # Bamba Mamadou
- Djibouti - Ali Abdi Farah
- Egypt - Ahmed Maher
- Equatorial Guinea -
- # Santiago Nsobeya Efuman
- # Pastor Micha Ondó Bile
- Eritrea - Ali Said Abdella
- Ethiopia - Seyoum Mesfin
- Gabon - Jean Ping
- The Gambia - Baboucarr-Blaise Jagne
- Ghana -
- # Hackman Owusu-Agyeman
- # Nana Akufo-Addo
- Guinea - François Lonseny Fall
- Guinea-Bissau -
- # Joãozinho Vieira Có
- # Fatumata Djau Baldé
- # João José Monteiro
- Kenya -
- # Marsden Madoka
- # Kalonzo Musyoka
- Lesotho - Mohlabi Tsekoa
- Liberia -
- # Monie Captan
- # Lewis Brown
- # Thomas Nimely
- Libya - Abdel Rahman Shalgham
- Madagascar - Marcel Ranjeva
- Malawi - Lilian Patel
- Mali - Lassana Traoré
- Mauritania -
- # Mohamed Ould Tolba
- # Mohamed Vall Ould Bellal
- Mauritius -
- # Anil Gayan
- # Jaya Krishna Cuttaree
- Morocco - Mohamed Benaissa
- * Western Sahara - Mohamed Salem Ould Salek
- Mozambique - Leonardo Simão
- Namibia - Hidipo Hamutenya
- Niger - Aïchatou Mindaoudou
- Nigeria -
- # Sule Lamido
- # Oluyemi Adeniji
- Rwanda - Charles Murigande
- São Tomé and Príncipe - Mateus Meira Rita
- Senegal - Cheikh Tidiane Gadio
- Seychelles - Jérémie Bonnelame
- Sierra Leone - Momodu Koroma
- Somalia - Yusuf Hassan Ibrahim
- * Somaliland -
- *# Mohamed Said Gees
- *# Edna Adan Ismail
- South Africa - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
- Sudan - Mustafa Osman Ismail
- Swaziland -
- # Abednego Ntshangase
- # Roy Fanourakis
- # Mabili Dlamini
- Tanzania - Jakaya Kikwete
- Togo -
- # Roland Kpotsra
- # Kokou Tozoun
- Tunisia - Habib Ben Yahia
- Uganda - James Wapakhabulo
- Zambia - Kalombo Mwansa
- Zimbabwe - Stan Mudenge
Asia
- Afghanistan - Abdullah Abdullah
- Armenia - Vartan Oskanian
- Azerbaijan - Vilayat Guliyev
- * Nagorno-Karabakh - Ashot Gulyan
- Bahrain - Sheikh Muhammad ibn Mubarak ibn Hamad Al Khalifah
- Bangladesh - Morshed Khan
- Bhutan -
- # Jigme Thinley
- # Khandu Wangchuk
- Brunei - Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah
- Cambodia - Hor Namhong
- China -
- # Tang Jiaxuan
- # Li Zhaoxing
- East Timor - José Ramos-Horta
- Georgia -
- # Irakli Menagarishvili
- # Merab Antadze
- # Tedo Japaridze
- * Abkhazia - Sergei Shamba
- * South Ossetia - Murat Dzhioyev
- India - Yashwant Sinha
- Indonesia - Hassan Wirajuda
- Iran - Kamal Kharazi
- Iraq -
- # Naji Sabri
- # Muhammad Amin Ahmad
- # Hoshyar Zebari
- Israel -
- # Benjamin Netanyahu
- # Silvan Shalom
- * Palestinian Authority - Nabil Shaath
- Japan - Yoriko Kawaguchi
- Jordan - Marwan al-Muasher
- Kazakhstan - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
- North Korea - Paek Nam-sun
- South Korea -
- # Choi Sung Hong
- # Yoon Young-kwan
- Kuwait -
- # Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
- # Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
- Kyrgyzstan - Askar Aitmatov
- Laos - Somsavat Lengsavad
- Lebanon -
- # Mahmoud Hammoud
- # Jean Obeid
- Malaysia - Syed Hamid Albar
- Maldives - Fathulla Jameel
- Mongolia - Luvsangiin Erdenechuluun
- Myanmar - Win Aung
- Nepal -
- # Narendra Bikram Shah
- # Surya Bahadur Thapa
- Oman - Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah
- Pakistan - Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
- Philippines -
- # Blas Ople
- # Franklin Ebdalin
- # Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- # Delia Albert
- Qatar - Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani
- Saudi Arabia - Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Singapore - S. Jayakumar
- Sri Lanka - Tyronne Fernando
- Syria - Farouk al-Sharaa
- Taiwan - Eugene Chien
- Tajikistan - Talbak Nazarov
- Thailand - Surakiart Sathirathai
- Turkey -
- # Yaşar Yakış
- # Abdullah Gül
- Turkmenistan - Raşit Meredow
- United Arab Emirates - Rashid Abdullah Al Nuaimi
- Uzbekistan -
- # Abdulaziz Komilov
- # Sodiq Safoyev
- Vietnam - Nguyễn Dy Niên
- Yemen - Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
Australia and Oceania
- Australia - Alexander Downer
- Fiji - Kaliopate Tavola
- French Polynesia - Gaston Flosse
- Kiribati -
- # Teburoro Tito
- # Tion Otang
- # Anote Tong
- Marshall Islands - Gerald Zackios
- Micronesia -
- # Ieske Iehsi
- # David Panuelo
- # Sebastian Anefal
- Nauru -
- # René Harris
- # Bernard Dowiyogo
- # René Harris
- # Bernard Dowiyogo
- # Derog Gioura
- # Ludwig Scotty
- # René Harris
- New Zealand - Phil Goff
- * Cook Islands - Robert Woonton
- * Niue - Young Vivian
- Palau - Temmy Shmull
- Papua New Guinea - Sir Rabbie Namaliu
- Samoa - Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi
- Solomon Islands - Laurie Chan
- Tonga - Prince 'Ulukalala Lavaka Ata
- Tuvalu - Saufatu Sopoanga
- Vanuatu -
- # Serge Vohor
- # Moana Carcasses Kalosil
Europe
- Albania -
- # Ilir Meta
- # Luan Hajdaraga
- # Kastriot Islami
- Andorra - Juli Minoves Triquell
- Austria - Benita Ferrero-Waldner
- Belarus -
- # Mikhail Khvostov
- # Sergei Martynov
- Belgium - Louis Michel
- * Brussels-Capital Region - Guy Vanhengel
- * Flanders -
- *# Jaak Gabriëls
- *# Patricia Ceysens
- Bosnia and Herzegovina -
- # Zlatko Lagumdžija
- # Mladen Ivanić
- Bulgaria - Solomon Passy
- Croatia -
- # Tonino Picula
- # Miomir Žužul
- Cyprus -
- # Ioannis Kasoulidis
- # Georgios Iacovou
- * Northern Cyprus - Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu
- Czech Republic - Cyril Svoboda
- Denmark - Per Stig Møller
- * Greenland - Josef Motzfeldt
- Estonia - Kristiina Ojuland
- Finland - Erkki Tuomioja
- France - Dominique de Villepin
- Germany - Joschka Fischer
- Greece - George Papandreou
- Hungary - László Kovács
- Iceland - Halldór Ásgrímsson
- Ireland - Brian Cowen
- Italy - Franco Frattini
- Latvia - Sandra Kalniete
- Liechtenstein - Ernst Walch
- Lithuania - Antanas Valionis
- Luxembourg - Lydie Polfer
- Macedonia - Ilinka Mitreva
- Malta - Joe Borg
- Moldova - Nicolae Dudău
- * Transnistria - Valeriy Litskai
- Netherlands -
- # Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
- # Ben Bot
- Norway - Jan Petersen
- Poland - Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
- Portugal -
- # António Martins da Cruz
- # Teresa Patrício de Gouveia
- Romania - Mircea Geoană
- Russia - Igor Ivanov
- San Marino -
- # Fiorenzo Stolfi
- # Fabio Berardi
- Serbia and Montenegro - Goran Svilanović
- * Montenegro -
- *# Dragan Đurović
- *# Dragiša Burzan
- Slovakia - Eduard Kukan
- Slovenia - Dimitrij Rupel
- Spain - Ana de Palacio y del Valle-Lersundi
- Sweden -
- # Anna Lindh
- # Jan O. Karlsson
- # Laila Freivalds
- Switzerland -
- # Micheline Calmy-Rey
- Ukraine -
- # Anatoliy Zlenko
- # Kostyantyn Gryshchenko
- United Kingdom - Jack Straw
- Vatican City -
- # Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran
- # Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo
North America and the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda - Lester Bird
- The Bahamas - Fred Mitchell
- Barbados - Billie Miller
- Belize -
- # Assad Shoman
- # Godfrey Smith
- Canada - Bill Graham
- * Quebec -
- *# Louise Beaudoin
- *# Monique Gagnon-Tremblay
- Costa Rica - Roberto Tovar Faja
- Cuba - Felipe Pérez Roque
- Dominica - Osborne Riviere
- Dominican Republic -
- # Hugo Tolentino Dipp
- # Frank Guerrero Prats
- El Salvador - María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila
- Grenada - Elvin Nimrod
- Guatemala - Edgar Armando Gutiérrez Girón
- Haiti - Joseph Philippe Antonio
- Honduras -
- # Guillermo Pérez Arias
- # Aníbal Quiñónez
- # Leonidas Rosa Bautista
- Jamaica - Keith Desmond Knight
- Mexico -
- # Jorge Castañeda Gutman
- # Luis Ernesto Derbez
- Nicaragua - Norman José Caldera Cardenal
- Panama -
- # José Miguel Alemán Healy
- # Harmodio Arias Cerjack
- Puerto Rico –
- #Ferdinand Mercado
- #Jose Izquierdo Encarnacion
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Timothy Harris
- Saint Lucia - Julian Hunte
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Louis Straker
- Trinidad and Tobago - Knowlson Gift
- United States - Colin Powell
South America
- Argentina -
- # Carlos Ruckauf
- # Rafael Bielsa
- Bolivia -
- # Carlos Saavedra Bruno
- # Juan Ignacio Siles
- Brazil -
- # Celso Lafer
- # Celso Amorim
- Chile - Soledad Alvear
- Colombia - Carolina Barco
- Ecuador -
- # Heinz Moeller Freile
- # Nina Pacari
- # Patricio Zuquilanda
- Guyana - Rudy Insanally
- Paraguay -
- # José Antonio Moreno Ruffinelli
- # Leila Rachid de Cowles
- Peru -
- # Allan Wagner Tizón
- # Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros
- Suriname - Marie Levens
- Uruguay - Didier Opertti
- Venezuela - Roy Chaderton