Post: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Body: | South Vietnam |
Insignia: | Coat of arms of the Republic of Vietnam (1967–1975).svg |
Insigniacaption: | Emblem (1963–75) |
Flag: | Flag of South Vietnam.svg |
Flagcaption: | Flag |
Incumbent: | None |
Department: | Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
Status: | Minister |
Member Of: | Government |
Reports To: | The Prime Minister |
Seat: | Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) |
Appointer: | The Emperor (1949–55) The President (1955–75) |
Termlength: | No fixed term |
First: | Nguyễn Phan Long |
Last: | Vương Văn Bắc |
Deputy: | Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs |
The Minister of Foreign Affairs was a government minister in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Vietnam (common name for the State of Vietnam and the Republic of Vietnam), in what is now southern region of Vietnam. The Minister was responsible for conducting foreign relations of the country.
The following is a list of foreign ministers of South Vietnam from 1949 until the fall of Saigon in 1975:[1]
Name | Portrait | Tenure | ||
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State of Vietnam (1949–1955) | ||||
1 | Nguyễn Phan Long | 1949–1950 | ||
2 | Trần Văn Hữu | 1950–1952 | ||
3 | Nguyễn Trung Vinh | 1952 | ||
4 | Trương Vĩnh Tống | 1952–1954 | ||
5 | Nguyễn Quốc Định | 1954 | ||
6 | Trần Văn Đỗ | 1954–1955 | ||
Republic of Vietnam (1955–1975) | ||||
7 | Vũ Văn Mẫu | 1955–1963 | ||
— | Trương Công Cừu | 1963 | ||
8 | Phạm Đăng Lâm | 1963–1964 | ||
9 | Phan Huy Quát | 1964 | ||
Phạm Đăng Lâm | 1964–1965 | |||
Trần Văn Đỗ | 1965–1968 | |||
10 | Trần Chánh Thành | 1968–1969 | ||
11 | Trần Văn Lắm | 1969–1973 | ||
— | Nguyễn Phú Đức | 1973 | ||
12 | Vương Văn Bắc | 1973–1975 |