Minister of Foreign Affairs (Vietnam)

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam
Incumbent Bùi Thanh Sơn since April 8, 2021
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style	His Excellency
Member of	Cabinet Council for National Defense and Security
Reports to	The President The Prime Minister
Appointer	The President
Term length	No fixed term
Inaugural holder	Ho Chi Minh
Formation	August 28,1945
Succession	Fifth
Deputy	Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
Website	mofa.gov.vn

Politics of Vietnam


Ideology Concepts Collective leadership Marxism–Leninism Ho Chi Minh Thought Organizations Central Propaganda Department Central Theoretical Council Nhân Dân
Constitution History 1946 1959 1980 1992 2013
Communist Party National Party Congress (13th) Central Committee (13th) General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng Politburo (13th) Secretariat (13th) Permanent Member Lương Cường Military Commission (2020–25) Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng Deputy Secretary Phan Văn Giang Inspection Commission (13th) Chairman Trần Cẩm Tú
Legislative National Assembly (14th) Standing Committee Chairman Trần Thanh Mẫn Provincial People's Councils
Presidency President (list) Tô Lâm Vice President Võ Thị Ánh Xuân
Executive Prime Minister (list): Phạm Minh Chính Deputy Prime Ministers: Trần Lưu Quang Trần Hồng Hà Lê Minh Khái Ministries Governor of the State Bank Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs
Fatherland Front Central Committee Chairman: Đỗ Văn Chiến Gen. Secretary: Nguyễn Thị Thu Hà Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee First Secretary Bùi Quang Huy Vietnam General Confederation of Labour Viet Nam Farmer's Union Vietnam Women’s Union
Military Central Military Commission Secretary: Tô Lâm Deputy Secretary: Phan Văn Giang Commander-in-Chief President: Lương Cường Army Ground Force Navy Air Defense-Air Force Coast Guard Border Guard Public Security Security forces Police forces Civil Defence Force National Defense and Security Council Chairman: President Lương Cường Vice-chairman: Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính
Judiciary Law National Assembly Justice Committee President Steering Committee of the Central Judicial Reform Director: Nguyễn Phú Trọng Supreme People's Court Chief Justice: Nguyễn Hòa Bình Supreme People's Procuracy Procurator-General: Lê Minh Trí
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The minister of foreign affairs is the Government of Vietnam member in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Moreover, member of Council for National Defense and Security. Since 2007, the minister of foreign affairs served as Deputy Prime Minister and member of the Politburo. However, Hoàng Minh Giám, Ung Văn Khiêm, Xuân Thủy, Nguyễn Dy Niên are not the member of Politburo. The current Vietnamese minister of foreign affairs is Bùi Thanh Sơn.

List of ministers

This is a list of ministers of foreign affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and its historical antecedents:^[1]

Democratic Republic of Vietnam

No	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Ho Chi Minh	August 28, 1945	March 2, 1946
2	Nhất Linh	March 2, 1946	November 3, 1946
1	Ho Chi Minh	November 3, 1946	March 1947
3	Hoàng Minh Giám	March 1947	April 1954
4	Phạm Văn Đồng	April 1954	February 1961
5	Ung Văn Khiêm	February 1961	April 30, 1963
6	Xuân Thủy	April 30, 1963	April 1965
7	Nguyễn Duy Trinh	April 1965	February 1980

Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam

No	Image	Name	Took office	Left office
1		Nguyễn Thị Bình	June 8, 1969	July 3, 1976

Socialist Republic of Vietnam

No	Name	Took office	Left office
7	Nguyễn Duy Trinh	April 1965	February 1980
8	Nguyễn Cơ Thạch	February 1980	August 1991
9	Nguyễn Mạnh Cầm	August 1991	February 28, 2000
10	Nguyễn Dy Niên	February 28, 2000	June 28, 2006
11	Phạm Gia Khiêm	June 28, 2006	August 3, 2011
12	Phạm Bình Minh	August 3, 2011	April 8, 2021
13	Bùi Thanh Sơn	April 8, 2021	Present

References

^ "Foreign ministers S–Z". rulers.org.

External links

Official website (in English)

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