Minister of Foreign Affairs (Maldives)

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Incumbent
Abdulla Khaleel

since 30 September 2024

Member of| Cabinet of the Maldives
Reports to| President of the Maldives
Appointer| President of the Maldives
Term length| 5 years
Inaugural holder| Hassan Farid Didi
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Maldives is a cabinet minister in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Maldives, responsible for conducting foreign relations of the country.

## List of Foreign ministers

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The following is a list of foreign ministers of Maldives since 1932:[1]

No. | Name
(Birth–Death) | Portrait  | Tenure

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Sultanate of the Maldives
1  | Hassan Farid Didi
(1901–1944) |  | 1932–1944
2  | Mohamed Amin Didi
(1910–1954) |  | 1944–1953
3  | Ibrahim Ali Didi
(1889–1975) |  | 1954–1957
4  | Ibrahim Nasir
(1926–2008) |  | 1957–1968
Republic of Maldives
5  | Ahmed Zaki
(1931–1996) |  | 1968–1975
6  | Fathulla Jameel
(1942–2012) |  | 1978–2005
7  | Ahmed Shaheed
(b. 1964) |  | 2005–2007
8  | Abdulla Shahid
(b. 1962) |  | 2007–2008
(6) | Ahmed Shaheed
(b. 1964) |  | 2008–2010
—  | Mohamed Aslam
Acting Minister |  | 2010–2011
9  | Ahmed Naseem
(b. 1948) |  | 2011–2012
10  | Abdul Samad Abdulla
(1946–2013) |  | 2012–2013
—  | Asim Ahmed
Acting Minister |  | 2013
—  | Mariyam Shakeela
(b. 1961)
Acting Minister |  | 2013
11  | Dunya Maumoon
(b. 1970) |  | 2013–2016
12  | Mohamed Asim
(b. 1960) |  | 2016–2018
13 | Abdulla Shahid
(b. 1962) |  | 2018–2023
14  | Moosa Zameer |  | 2023–2024
15  | Abdulla Khaleel
(b. 1975) |  | 2024–president

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Foreign ministers L-R". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved 12 January 2015.

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