List of foreign ministers in 2005 - Definition

Foreign ministers in 2004 - State leaders in 2005 - Foreign ministers in 2006

Africa

• Algeria - Abdelaziz Belkhadem (2000-present)
• Angola - João Bernardo de Miranda (1999-present)
• Benin - Rogatien Biaou (2003-present)
• Botswana - Mompati Merafhe (1994-present)
• Burkina Faso - Youssouf Ouedraogo (1999-present)
• Burundi - Terence Sinunguruza (2001-present)
• Cameroon - Laurent Esso (2004-present)
• Cape Verde - Víctor Borges (2004-present)
• Central African Republic - Charles Wénézoui (2003-present)
• Chad - Nagoum Yamassoum (2003-present)
• Comoros - Soeuf Mohamed Elamine (2002-present)
• Republic of Congo - Rodolphe Adada (1997-present)
• Democratic Republic of Congo - Raymond Ramazani Baya (2004-present)
• Côte d'Ivoire - Bamba Mamadou (2003-present)
• Djibouti - Ali Abdi Farah (1999-present)
• Egypt - Ahmed Aboul Gheit (2004-present)
• Equatorial Guinea - Pastor Micha Ondo Bile (2003-present)
• Eritrea - Ali Said Abdella (2000-present)
• Ethiopia - Seyoum Mesfin (1991-present)
• Gabon - Jean Ping (1999-present)
• The Gambia - Sidi Moro Sanneh (2004-present)
• Ghana - Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (2003-present)
• Guinea - Mamady Condé (2004-present)
• Guinea-Bissau - Soares Sambu (2004-present)
• Kenya - Chirau Ali Mwakwere (2004-present)
• Lesotho - Monyane Moleleki (2004-present)
• Liberia - Thomas Nimely (2003-present)
• Libya - Abdel Rahman Shalgham (2000-present)
• Madagascar - Marcel Ranjeva (2002-present)
• Malawi - George Chaponda (2004-present)
• Mali - Moctar Ouane (2004-present)
• Mauritania - Mohamed Vall Ould Bellal (2003-present)
• Mauritius - Jaya Krishna Cuttaree (2003-present)
• Morocco - Mohamed Benaissa (1999-present)
• Mozambique -
  1. Leonardo Simão (1994-2005)
  2. Alcinda Abreu (2005-present)
• Namibia - Marco Hausiku (2004-present)
• Niger - Aïchatou Mindaoudou (2001-present)
• Nigeria - Oluyemi Adeniji (2003-present)
• Rwanda - Charles Murigande (2002-present)
• São Tomé and Príncipe - Ovídio Manuel Barbosa Pequeno (2004-present)
• Senegal - Cheikh Tidiane Gadio (2000-present)
• Seychelles - Jeremie Bonnelame (1997-present)
• Sierra Leone - Momodu Koroma (2002-present)
• Somalia - Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail (2004-present)
• South Africa - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (1999-present)
• The Sudan - Mustafa Osman Ismail (1998-present)
• Swaziland - Mabili Dlamini (2003-present)
• Tanzania - Jakaya Kikwete (1995-present)
• Togo - Kokou Tozoun (2003-present)
• Tunisia - Abdelbaki Hermassi (2004-present)
• Uganda -
  1. Tom Butime (2004-2005)
  2. Sam Kutesa (2005-present)
• Western Sahara - Mohamed Salem Ould Salek (1998-present)
• Zambia -
  1. Kalombo Mwansa (2002-2005)
  2. Ronnie Shikapwasha (2005-present)
• Zimbabwe - Stan Mudenge (1995-present)

Asia

• Afghanistan - Abdullah Abdullah (2001-present)
• Armenia - Vartan Oskanyan (1998-present)
• Azerbaijan - Elmar Mamedyarov (2004-present)
• Bahrain - Muhammad ibn Mubarak ibn Hamad Al Khalifah (1971-present)
• Bangladesh - Morshed Khan (2001-present)
• Bhutan - Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk (2003-present)
• Brunei - Pagiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah (1984-present)
• Cambodia - Hor Namhong (1998-present)
• People's Republic of China - Li Zhaoxing (2003-present)
• Cyprus - Georgios Iakovou (2003-present)
• Georgia - Salome Zurabishvili (2004-present)
• India - K. Natwar Singh (2004-present)
• Indonesia - Hassan Wirajuda (2001-present)
• Iran - Kamal Kharrazi (1997-present)
• Iraq - Hoshyar Zebari (2003-present)
• Israel - Silvan Shalom (2003-present)
• Japan - Nobutaka Machimura (2004-present)
• Jordan - Hani al-Mulki (2004-present)
• Kazakhstan - Kasymzhomart Tokayev (2002-present)
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Paek Nam Sun (1998-present)
• Republic of Korea - Ban Ki Moon (2004-present)
• Kuwait - Muhammad al Sabah al Salim al Sabah (2003-present)
• Kyrgyzstan - Askar Aitmatov (2002-present)
• Laos - Somsavat Lengsavad (1993-present)
• Lebanon - Mahmoud Hammoud (2004-present)
• Malaysia - Syed Hamid Albar (1999-present)
• Maldives - Fathulla Jameel (1978-present)
• Mongolia - Tsendiyn Monkhorgil (2004-present)
• Myanmar - Nyan Win (2004-present)
• Nepal -
  1. Sher Bahadur Deuba (2004-2005)
  2. Ramesh Nath Pandey (2005-present)
• Oman - Youssef al-Alawi Abdullah (1982-present)
• Pakistan - Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri (2002-present)
• Philippines - Alberto Romulo (2004-present)
• Qatar - Hamad ibn Jaber Al Thani (1992-present)
• Saudi Arabia - Prince Sa'ud al-Faysal (1975-present)
• Singapore - George Yeo (2004-present)
• Sri Lanka - Lakshman Kadirgamar (2004-present)
• Syria - Farouk al-Sharaa (1984-present)
• Taiwan (Republic of China) - Chen Tang-shan (2004-present)
• Tajikistan - Talbak Nazarov (1994-present)
• Thailand - Surakiart Sathirathai (2001-present)
• Turkey - Abdullah Gül (2003-present)
• Turkmenistan - Rashid Meredov (2001-present)
• United Arab Emirates - Rashid ibn Abdullah Al Nuaimi (1980-present)
• Uzbekistan -
  1. Sadyk Safayev (2003-2005)
  2. Elyor Ganiyev (2005-present)
• Vietnam - Nguyen Di Nien (2000-present)
• Yemen - Abu Bakr al-Kerbi (2001-present)

Australia and Oceania

• Australia - Alexander Downer (1996-present)
• Fiji - Kaliopate Tavola (2000-present)
• Kiribati - Anote Tong (2003-present)
• Marshall Islands - Gerald Zackios (2001-present)
• Federated States of Micronesia - Sebastian Anefal (2003-present)
• Nauru - David Adeang (2004-present)
• New Zealand - Phil Goff (1999-present)
• Palau - Tommy Remengesau (2001-present)
• Papua New Guinea - Sir Rabbie Namaliu (2002-present)
• Samoa - Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi (1998-present)
• Solomon Islands - Laurie Chan (2002-present)
• Tonga - Sonatane Tu'a Taumoepeau Tupou (2004-present)
• Tuvalu - Maatia Toafa (2004-present)
• Vanuatu - Sato Kilman (2004-present)

Europe

• Albania - Kastriot Islami (2003-present)
• Andorra - Juli Minoves Triquell (2001-present)
• Austria - Ursula Plassnik (2004-present)
• Belarus - Syarhey Martynau (2003-present)
• Belgium - Karel De Gucht (2004-present)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Mladen Ivanic (2003-present)
• Bulgaria - Solomon Passy (2001-present)
• Croatia - Miomir Zuzul (2003-present)
• Czech Republic - Cyril Svoboda (2002-present)
• Denmark - Per Stig Møller (2001-present)
• Estonia - Kristiina Ojuland (2002-present)
• Finland - Erkki Tuomioja (2000-present)
• France - Michel Barnier (2004-present)
• Germany - Joschka Fischer (1998-present)
• Greece - Petros Molyviatis (2004-present)
• Hungary - Ferenc Somogyi (2004-present)
• Iceland - Davíð Oddsson (2004-present)
• Republic of Ireland - Dermot Ahern (2004-present)
• Italy - Gianfranco Fini (2004-present)
• Latvia - Artis Pabriks (2004-present)
• Liechtenstein - Ernst Walch (2001-present)
• Lithuania - Antanas Valionis (2000-present)
• Luxembourg - Jean Asselborn (2004-present)
• Republic of Macedonia - Ilinka Mitreva (2002-present)
• Malta - Michael Frendo (2004-present)
• Moldova - Andrei Stratan (2004-present)
• Netherlands - Ben Bot (2003-present)
• Norway - Jan Petersen (2001-present)
• Poland -
  1. Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz (2001-2005)
  2. Adam Daniel Rotfeld (2005-present)
• Portugal - António Monteiro (2004-present)
• Romania - Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu (2004-present)
• Russia - Sergei Lavrov (2004-present)
• San Marino - Fabio Berardi (2003-present)
• Serbia and Montenegro - Vuk Drašković (2004-present)
• Slovakia - Eduard Kukan (1998-present)
• Slovenia - Dimitrij Rupel (2004-present)
• Spain - Miguel Ángel Moratinos (2004-present)
• Sweden - Laila Freivalds (2003-present)
• Switzerland - Micheline Calmy-Rey (2003-present)
• Ukraine -
  1. Kostyantyn Gryshchenko (2003-2005)
  2. Borys Tarasyuk (2005-present)
• United Kingdom - Jack Straw (2001-present)
• Vatican City - Giovanni Lajolo (2003-present)

North America and the Caribbean

• Antigua and Barbuda -
  1. Harold Lovell (2004-2005)
  2. Baldwin Spencer (2005-present)
• The Bahamas - Fred Mitchell (2002-present)
• Barbados - Billie Miller (1994-present)
• Belize - Godfrey Smith (2003-present)
• Canada - Pierre Pettigrew (2004-present)
• Costa Rica - Roberto Tovar Faja (2002-present)
• Cuba - Felipe Pérez Roque (1999-present)
• Dominica - Osborne Riviere (2001-present)
• Dominican Republic - Carlos Morales Troncoso (2004-present)
• El Salvador - Francisco Laínez (2004-present)
• Grenada - Elvin Nimrod (2000-present)
• Guatemala - Jorge Briz Abularach (2004-present)
• Guyana - Samuel Insanally (2001-present)
• Haiti -
  1. Yvon Siméon (2004-2005)
  2. Hérard Abraham (2005-present)
• Honduras - Leonidas Rosa Bautista (2003-present)
• Jamaica - Keith Desmond Knight (2001-present)
• Mexico - Luis Ernesto Derbez (2003-present)
• Nicaragua - Norman José Caldera Cardenal (2002-present)
• Panama - Samuel Lewis Navarro (2004-present)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis - Timothy Harris (2001-present)
• Saint Lucia - Petrus Compton (2004-present)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Louis Straker (2001-present)
• Trinidad and Tobago - Knowlson Gift (2001-present)
• United States -
  1. Colin Powell (2001-2005)
  2. Condoleezza Rice (2005-present)

South America

• Argentina - Rafael Bielsa (2003-present)
• Bolivia - Juan Ignacio Siles (2003-present)
• Brazil - Celso Amorim (2003-present)
• Chile - Ignacio Walker Prieto (2004-present)
• Colombia - Carolina Barco (2002-present)
• Ecuador - Patricio Zuquilanda (2003-present)
• Paraguay - Leila Rachid de Cowles (2003-present)
• Peru - Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros (2003-present)
• Suriname - Marie Levens (2000-present)
• Uruguay - Didier Opertti Badan (1998-present)
• Venezuela - Alí Rodríguez Araque (2004-present)