| Agency Name: | Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| Type: | Ministerial Department |
| Preceding1: | Foreign Affairs Department Bureau |
| Jurisdiction: | Government of Kuwait |
| Headquarters: | Kuwait City |
| Minister1 Name: | Abdullah Al Yahya |
| Child1 Agency: | State of Kuwait Ambassadors Bureau
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| Website: | Official Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is one of the governmental bodies of Kuwait and part of the cabinet. It was established in 1961.
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.
| 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) | ||
| 7 | Abdullah Al Yahya[7] | Minister of Foreign Affairs | 2024–present | Ambassador of Kuwait to Argentina (2018–2019) |