Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministerial Department overview
Formed1961; 63 years ago (1961)
Preceding Ministerial Department
  • Foreign Affairs Department Bureau
JurisdictionGovernment of Kuwait
HeadquartersKuwait City
Minister responsible
Child Ministerial Department
  • State of Kuwait Ambassadors Bureau
    • Military Correspondents Attachés Bureau
WebsiteOfficial Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Arabic: وزارة الخارجية, romanized: wizāra al-khārijiyya) is one of the governmental bodies of Kuwait and part of the cabinet. It was established in 1961.

History and overview

In 1961, a Foreign Affairs Department Bureau was established in Kuwait to organize the foreign relations of the country which was soon relaunched as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, becoming the first ministerial body of the country.[1]

The first foreign minister of Kuwait was Sabah Al Salim Al Sabah.[2] He was followed by Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah.[1]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs delegates ambassadors and military attachés bureau in foreign diplomatic missions in countries such as the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, Italy and Korea.

List of ministers of foreign affairs and deputy prime ministers

No. Name Portrait Title Term of office Note
1 Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
Minister of Foreign Affairs 1962–1963 12 Ruler and 2nd Emir of Kuwait (1965–1977)
2 Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1963–2003 15 Ruler and 5th Emir of Kuwait (2006–2020)
3 Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs 2003–2011 Ambassador of Kuwait to the United States (1993–2001)
4 Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah[3]
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs 2011–2019 Kuwait's permanent member mission to the United Nations (1983–1989)
Kuwait's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1995–1998)[4]
Kuwait's 9th Prime Minister (2019–2022)
5 Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah[5] Minister of Foreign Affairs 2019–2022 Kuwait's extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador in 2005
Kuwait's Assistant Foreign Minister for First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister's Office Affairs in 2016
Kuwait's Assistant Foreign Minister for the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister's Office Affairs in 2017
6 Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah[6]
Minister of Foreign Affairs 2022–present Ambassador of Kuwait to the United States (2001-2022)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Independence and building the modern state". Al Diwan Al Amiri. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  2. ^ Jacqueline S. Ismael (1982). Kuwait: Social Change in Historical Perspective. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 173. ISBN 9780815622543.
  3. ^ "Sheikh Sabah Appointed FM". Arab Times. Kuwait City. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Biography of Ministers". Arab Times. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Profiles of new cabinet ministers in Kuwait". Kuwait News Agency. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Kuwait appoints new cabinet with Bader al Mulla as oil minister". Reuters. 16 October 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
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