List of foreign ministers in 1950

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This is a list of foreign ministers in 1950.

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Africa

FlagCountryForeign ministerTerm
Flag of Egypt (1922-1958).svg Egypt Hussein Sirri Pasha
Muhammad Salah al-Din Bey
1949-1950
1950-1952
Flag of Ethiopia (1897-1936; 1941-1974).svg Ethiopia Aklilu Habte-Wold 1943-1958
Flag of Liberia.svg Liberia Gabriel Lafayette Dennis 1944-1953
Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg South Africa Daniel François Malan 1948-1954

Asia-Pacific

FlagCountryForeign ministerTerm
Flag of Afghanistan (1931-1973).svg Afghanistan Ali Mohammad Khan 1938-1952
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Percy Spender 1949-1951
Flag of Burma (1948-1974).svg Burma E Maung
Sao Hkun Hkio
1949-1950
1950-1958
Flag of Ceylon.svg Ceylon D.S. Senanayake 1948-1952
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China (People's Republic of China) Zhou Enlai 1949-1958
Flag of India.svg India Jawaharlal Nehru 1947-1964
Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Mohammad Hatta
Mohammad Roem
1949-1950
1950-1951
State Flag of Iran (1925).svg Iran Hossein Navab 1946-1951
Flag of Iraq (1924-1959).svg Iraq Muzahim al-Pachachi
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
Shakir al-Wadi
1949-1950
1950
1950-1951
Flag of Israel.svg Israel Moshe Sharett 1948-1956
Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Japan (under occupation) Shigeru Yoshida 1948-1954
Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan Samir al-Rifai
Muhammad ash-Shuraiki
Ruhi Abdul Hadi
Samir al-Rifai
1949-1950
1950
1950
1950-1951
Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea Pak Hon-yong 1948-1953
Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Yim Byeong-sik 1949-1951
Flag of Laos (1893-1952).svg Laos (associated state of France) Prince Boun Oum
Phoui Sananikone
1948-1950
1950-1951
Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Philippe Takla 1949-1951
Flag of the People's Republic of Mongolia (1945-1992).svg Mongolia Khorloogiin Choibalsan
Nantayshiriyn Lkhamsüren
1939-1950
1950-1953
Flag of Muscat.svg Muscat and Oman  ? ?
Flag of Nepal (19th century-1962).svg Nepal Mohan Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana 1948-1951
Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Frederick Doidge 1949-1951
Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan 1947-1954
Flag of the Philippines (navy blue).svg Philippines Joaquín Miguel Elizalde
Carlos P. Romulo
1948-1950
1950-1952
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Prince Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud 1930-1960
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union Andrey Vyshinsky 1949-1953
Flag of Syria (1932-1958; 1961-1963).svg Syria Nazim al-Kudsi 1950-1951
Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan (Republic of China) George Yeh 1949-1958
Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand Pote Sarasin
Warakan Bancha
1949-1950
1950-1952
Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Necmettin Sadak
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü
1947-1950
1950-1955
Flag of North Vietnam (1955-1975).svg North Vietnam Hoàng Minh Giám 1946-1954
Flag of South Vietnam.svg South Vietnam Nguyễn Phan Long
Trần Văn Hữu
1949-1950
1950-1952
Flag of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.svg Yemen Ahmad bin Yahya 1948-1955

Europe

FlagCountryForeign ministerTerm
Flag of Albania.svg Albania Enver Hoxha 1946-1953
Flag of Austria.svg Austria (under Allied occupation) Karl Gruber 1945-1953
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium Paul van Zeeland 1949-1954
Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria Vladimir Poptomov
Mincho Neychev
1949-1950
1950-1956
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechoslovakia Vladimír Clementis
Viliam Široký
1948-1950
1950-1953
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark Gustav Rasmussen
Ole Bjørn Kraft
1945-1950
1950-1953
Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany Georg Dertinger 1949-1953
Flag of Finland.svg Finland Carl Enckell
Åke Gartz
1944-1950
1950-1951
Flag of France.svg France Robert Schuman 1948-1953
Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg Greece Konstantinos Tsaldaris
Panagiotis Pipinelis
Sofoklis Venizelos
Nikolaos Plastiras
Sofoklis Venizelos
1946-1950
1950
1950
1950
1950-1951
Flag of Hungary (1949-1956; 1-2 aspect ratio).svg Hungary Gyula Kállai 1949-1951
Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland Bjarni Benediktsson 1947-1953
Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland Seán MacBride 1948-1951
Flag of Italy.svg Italy Carlo Sforza 1947-1951
Flag of Liechtenstein.svg Liechtenstein Alexander Frick 1945-1962
Flag of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg Joseph Bech 1926-1959
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Dirk Stikker 1948-1952
Flag of Norway.svg Norway Halvard Lange 1946-1963
Flag of Poland.svg Poland Zygmunt Modzelewski 1947-1951
Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal José Caeiro da Mata
Paulo Cunha
1947-1950
1950-1956
Flag of Romania (1948-1952).svg Romania Ana Pauker 1947-1952
Flag of San Marino.svg San Marino Gino Giacomini 1945-1957
Flag of Spain (1945-1977).svg Spain Alberto Martín-Artajo 1945-1957
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Östen Undén 1945-1962
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland Max Petitpierre 1945-1961
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Ernest Bevin 1945-1951
Flag of the Vatican City (2023-present).svg Vatican City Domenico Tardini 1937-1953
Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Yugoslavia Edvard Kardelj 1948-1953

North America and the Caribbean

FlagCountryForeign ministerTerm
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Lester B. Pearson 1948-1957
Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica Ricardo Toledo Escalante
Mario Echandi Jiménez
1949-1950
1950-1952
Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba Carlos Hevia
Ernesto Dihigo
1948-1950
1950-1951
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic Virgilio Díaz Ordóñez 1947-1953
Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador Miguel Rafael Urquia
Robert Edmundo Canessa
1948-1950
1950-1955
Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala Ismael González Arévalo 1949-1951
Flag of Haiti (civil).svg Haiti Vilfort Beauvoir
Antoine Levelt
1949-1950
1950-1951
Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg Honduras Edgardo Valenzuela 1948-1954
Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg Mexico Jaime Torres Bodet 1946-1951
Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua Oscar Sevilla Sacasa 1949-1956
Flag of Panama.svg Panama Carlos Brin 1949-1951
Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg United States Dean Acheson 1949-1953

South America

FlagCountryForeign ministerTerm
Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Hipólito Jesús Paz 1949-1951
Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg Brazil Raul Fernandes 1946-1951
Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg Bolivia Alberto Saavedra Nogales
Pedro Zilveti Arce
1949-1950
1950-1951
Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Elíseo Arango Ramos
Evaristo Sourdis Juliao
Gonzalo Restrepo Jaramillo
1949-1950
1950
1950-1951
Flag of Chile.svg Chile Germán Ignacio Riesco
Horacio Walker Larraín
1948-1950
1950-1951
Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador Neftalí Ponce Miranda 1948-1952
Flag of Paraguay.svg Paraguay Bernardo Ocampos 1949-1952
Flag of Peru (1825-1884).svg Peru Ernesto Rodríguez
Manuel C. Gallagher
1949-1950
1950-1952
Flag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay César Charlone
Alberto Domínguez Cámpora
1949-1950
1950-1952
Flag of Venezuela (1930-1954).svg Venezuela Luis Emilio Gómez Ruiz 1948-1952