List of foreign ministers in 2008
This is a list of foreign ministers in 2008.
Africa
- Algeria - Mourad Medelci
- Angola -
- #João Bernardo de Miranda
- #Assunção dos Anjos
- Benin -
- #Moussa Okanla
- #Jean-Marie Ehouzou
- Botswana -
- #Mompati Merafhe
- #Phandu Skelemani
- Burkina Faso -
- #Djibril Bassolé
- #Alain Bédouma Yoda
- Burundi - Antoinette Batumubwira
- Cameroon - Henri Eyebe Ayissi
- Cape Verde -
- #Víctor Borges
- #José Brito
- Central African Republic -
- #Côme Zoumara
- #Dieudonné Kombo Yaya
- Chad -
- #Ahmad Allam-Mi
- #Moussa Faki
- Comoros - Ahmed Ben Said Jaffar
- Republic of Congo - Basile Ikouébé
- Democratic Republic of Congo -
- #Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi
- #Alexis Thambwe Mwamba
- Côte d'Ivoire - Youssouf Bakayoko
- Djibouti - Mahamoud Ali Youssouf
- Egypt - Ahmed Aboul Gheit
- Equatorial Guinea - Pastor Micha Ondó Bile
- Eritrea - Osman Saleh Mohammed
- Ethiopia - Seyoum Mesfin
- Gabon -
- #Jean Ping
- #Laure Olga Gondjout
- #Paul Toungui
- The Gambia -
- #Crispin Grey-Johnson
- #Omar Touray
- Ghana - Akwasi Osei-Adjei
- Guinea -
- #Kabèlè Abdoul Camara
- #Amadou Lamarana Bah
- Guinea-Bissau - Maria da Conceição Nobre Cabral
- Kenya -
- #Raphael Tuju
- #Moses Wetangula
- Lesotho - Mohlabi Tsekoa
- Liberia - Olubanke King-Akerele
- Libya - Abdel Rahman Shalgham
- Madagascar - Marcel Ranjeva
- Malawi - Joyce Banda
- Mali - Moctar Ouane
- Mauritania -
- #Mohamed Saleck Ould Mohamed Lemine
- #Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna
- #Abdallahi Hassen Ben Hmeida
- #Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
- Mauritius -
- #Madan Dulloo
- #Navin Ramgoolam
- #Arvin Boolell
- Morocco - Taieb Fassi Fihri
- * Western Sahara - Mohamed Salem Ould Salek
- Mozambique -
- #Alcinda Abreu
- #Oldemiro Balói
- Namibia - Marco Hausiku
- Niger - Aïchatou Mindaoudou
- Nigeria - Ojo Maduekwe
- Rwanda -
- #Charles Murigande
- #Rosemary Museminari
- São Tomé and Príncipe -
- #Ovídio Manuel Barbosa Pequeno
- #Carlos Tiny
- Senegal - Cheikh Tidiane Gadio
- Seychelles - Patrick Pillay
- Sierra Leone - Zainab Bangura
- Somalia -
- #Muhammad Ali Hamoud
- #Ali Ahmed Jama Jangali
- * Somaliland - Abdillahi Mohamed Duale
- * Puntland - Ali Abdi Aware
- South Africa - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
- Sudan - Deng Alor
- Swaziland -
- #Moses Mathendele Dlamini
- #Lutfo Dlamini
- Tanzania – Bernard Membe
- Togo -
- #Léopold Gnininvi
- #Kofi Esaw
- Tunisia - Abdelwahab Abdallah
- Uganda - Sam Kutesa
- Western Sahara - Mohamed Salem Ould Salek
- Zambia - Kabinga Pande
- Zimbabwe - Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
Asia
- Afghanistan - Rangin Dadfar Spanta
- Armenia -
- #Vartan Oskanian
- #Eduard Nalbandyan
- Azerbaijan - Elmar Mammadyarov
- * Nagorno-Karabakh - Georgy Petrosyan
- Bahrain - Sheikh Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah
- Bangladesh – Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury
- Bhutan -
- #Yeshey Dorji
- #Ugyen Tshering
- Brunei - Pengiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah
- Cambodia - Hor Namhong
- China - Yang Jiechi
- East Timor - Zacarias da Costa
- Georgia -
- #Gela Bezhuashvili
- #Davit Bakradze
- #Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili
- #Grigol Vashadze
- * Abkhazia - Sergei Shamba
- * South Ossetia - Murat Dzhioyev
- India - Pranab Mukherjee
- Indonesia - Hassan Wirajuda
- Iran - Manouchehr Mottaki
- Iraq - Hoshyar Zebari
- * Kurdistan - Falah Mustafa Bakir
- Israel - Tzipi Livni
- * Palestinian Authority - Riyad al-Maliki
- Japan -
- #Masahiko Kōmura
- #Hirofumi Nakasone
- Jordan - Salah Bashir
- Kazakhstan – Marat Tazhin
- North Korea - Pak Ui-chun
- South Korea -
- #Song Min-soon
- #Yu Myung-hwan
- Kuwait - Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
- Kyrgyzstan - Ednan Karabayev
- Laos - Thongloun Sisoulith
- Lebanon -
- *Fawzi Salloukh
- *Tarek Mitri
- Malaysia -
- #Syed Hamid Albar
- #Rais Yatim
- Maldives -
- #Abdullah Shahid
- #Ahmed Shaheed
- Mongolia -
- #Sanjaasürengiin Oyuun
- #Sükhbaataryn Batbold
- Myanmar - Nyan Win
- Nepal -
- #Sahana Pradhan
- #Upendra Yadav
- Oman - Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah
- Pakistan -
- #Inam-ul-Haq
- #Shah Mehmood Qureshi
- 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 - Rohitha Bogollagama
- Syria - Walid Muallem
- Taiwan -
- #James Huang
- #Francisco Ou
- Tajikistan - Khamrokhon Zaripov
- Thailand -
- #Nitya Pibulsonggram
- #Noppadon Pattama
- #Tej Bunnag
- #Saroj Chavanavirat
- #Sompong Amornwiwat
- #Kasit Piromya
- Turkmenistan - Raşit Meredow
- United Arab Emirates - Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan
- Uzbekistan - Vladimir Norov
- Vietnam - Phạm Gia Khiêm
- Yemen - Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
Europe
- Albania - Lulzim Basha
- Andorra - Meritxell Mateu i Pi
- Austria -
- #Ursula Plassnik
- #Michael Spindelegger
- Belarus - Sergei Martynov
- Belgium - Karel De Gucht
- * Brussels-Capital Region - Guy Vanhengel
- * Flanders -
- *# Geert Bourgeois
- *# Kris Peeters
- * Wallonia - Marie-Dominique Simonet
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sven Alkalaj
- Bulgaria - Ivailo Kalfin
- Croatia -
- #Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
- #Gordan Jandroković
- Cyprus -
- #Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis
- #Markos Kyprianou
- * Northern Cyprus - Turgay Avcı
- Czech Republic - Karel Schwarzenberg
- Denmark - Per Stig Møller
- * Greenland -
- *# Aleqa Hammond
- *# Per Berthelsen
- * Faroe Islands -
- *# Høgni Hoydal
- *# Jørgen Niclasen
- Estonia - Urmas Paet
- Finland -
- #Ilkka Kanerva
- #Alexander Stubb
- France - Bernard Kouchner
- Germany - Frank-Walter Steinmeier
- Greece - Dora Bakoyannis
- Hungary - Kinga Göncz
- Iceland - Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
- Ireland -
- #Dermot Ahern
- #Micheál Martin
- Italy -
- #Massimo D'Alema
- #Franco Frattini
- Latvia - Māris Riekstiņš
- Liechtenstein - Rita Kieber-Beck
- Lithuania -
- #Petras Vaitiekūnas
- #Vygaudas Ušackas
- Luxembourg - Jean Asselborn
- Macedonia - Antonio Milošoski
- Malta -
- #Michael Frendo
- #Tonio Borg
- Moldova - Andrei Stratan
- * Transnistria -
- *#Valeriy Litskai
- *#Vladimir Yastrebchak
- Monaco -
- #Jean Pastorelli
- #Franck Biancheri
- Montenegro - Milan Roćen
- Netherlands - Maxime Verhagen
- Norway - Jonas Gahr Støre
- Poland - Radosław Sikorski
- Portugal - Luís Amado
- Romania -
- #Adrian Cioroianu
- #Lazăr Comănescu
- #Cristian Diaconescu
- Russia - Sergey Lavrov
- San Marino -
- #Fiorenzo Stolfi
- #Antonella Mularoni
- Serbia - Vuk Jeremić
- * Kosovo - Skënder Hyseni
- Slovakia - Ján Kubiš
- Slovenia -
- #Dimitrij Rupel
- #Samuel Žbogar
- Spain - Miguel Ángel Moratinos
- Sweden - Carl Bildt
- Switzerland - Micheline Calmy-Rey
- Turkey - Ali Babacan
- Ukraine - Volodymyr Ohryzko
- United Kingdom - David Miliband
- * Scotland - Linda Fabiani
- Vatican City - Archbishop Dominique Mamberti
North America and the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda - Baldwin Spencer
- The Bahamas - Brent Symonette
- Barbados -
- #Dame Billie Miller
- #Christopher Sinckler
- #Maxine McClean
- Belize
- #Lisa Shoman
- #Wilfred Elrington
- Canada -
- #Maxime Bernier
- #David Emerson
- #Lawrence Cannon
- * Quebec -
- *# Monique Gagnon-Tremblay
- *# Pierre Arcand
- Costa Rica - Bruno Stagno Ugarte
- Cuba - Felipe Pérez Roque
- Dominica -
- #Roosevelt Skerrit
- #Vince Henderson
- Dominican Republic - Carlos Morales Troncoso
- El Salvador -
- #Francisco Laínez
- #Marisol Argueta de Barillas
- Grenada -
- #Elvin Nimrod
- #Peter David
- Guatemala -
- #Gert Rosenthal
- #Haroldo Rodas
- Haiti -
- #Jean Rénald Clérismé
- #Alrich Nicolas
- Honduras -
- #Milton Jiménez
- #Ángel Edmundo Orellana
- Jamaica - Kenneth Baugh
- Mexico - Patricia Espinosa
- Netherlands Antilles - Emily de Jongh-Elhage
- Nicaragua - Samuel Santos López
- Panama - Samuel Lewis Navarro
- Puerto Rico – Fernando Bonilla
- Saint Kitts and Nevis -
- #Timothy Harris
- #Denzil Douglas
- Saint Lucia - Stephenson King
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Sir Louis Straker
- Trinidad and Tobago - Paula Gopee-Scoon
- United States - Condoleezza Rice
Oceania
- Australia - Stephen Smith
- Fiji -
- #Ratu Epeli Nailatikau
- #Frank Bainimarama
- French Polynesia -
- # Oscar Temaru
- # Gaston Flosse
- # Gaston Tong Sang
- Kiribati - Anote Tong
- Marshall Islands -
- #Gerald Zackios
- #Tony deBrum
- Micronesia - Lorin S. Robert
- Nauru - Kieren Keke
- New Zealand -
- #Winston Peters
- #Murray McCully
- * Cook Islands - Wilkie Rasmussen
- * Niue -
- *# Young Vivian
- *# Toke Talagi
- * Tokelau - Pio Tuia
- Palau - Temmy Shmull
- Papua New Guinea - Sam Abal
- Samoa - Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
- Solomon Islands - William Haomae
- Tonga - Sonatane Tu'a Taumoepeau Tupou
- Tuvalu - Apisai Ielemia
- Vanuatu -
- #George Wells
- #Pakoa Kaltonga
South America
- Argentina - Jorge Taiana
- Bolivia - David Choquehuanca
- Brazil - Celso Amorim
- Chile - Alejandro Foxley
- Colombia -
- #Fernando Araújo Perdomo
- #Jaime Bermúdez
- Ecuador -
- #María Isabel Salvador
- #Fander Falconí
- Guyana -
- #Rudy Insanally
- #Carolyn Rodrigues
- Paraguay -
- #Rubén Ramírez Lezcano
- #Alejandro Hamed
- Peru - José Antonio García Belaúnde
- Suriname - Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk
- Uruguay -
- #Reinaldo Gargano
- #Gonzalo Fernández
- Venezuela - Nicolás Maduro