Minister of Foreign Affairs (South Vietnam)

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.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Vietnam
Vietnamese: Bộ trưởng Ngoại giao Việt Nam Cộng Hòa French: Ministre des affaires étrangères du Sud-Vietnam
Emblem (1963–75)
Flag
Incumbent None
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)
Term length	No fixed term
Formation	1949; 76 years ago (1949)
First holder	Nguyễn Phan Long
Final holder	Vương Văn Bắc
Abolished	1975; 50 years ago (1975)
Deputy	Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

List of ministers

The following is a list of foreign ministers of South Vietnam from 1949 until the fall of Saigon in 1975:^[1]

No.	Name (Birth–Death)	Portrait	Tenure
State of Vietnam (1949–1955)
1	Nguyễn Phan Long (1888–1960)		1949–1950
2	Trần Văn Hữu (1896–1984)		1950–1952
3	Nguyễn Trung Vinh		1952
4	Trương Vĩnh Tống (1884–1974)		1952–1954
5	Nguyễn Quốc Định (1916–1976)		1954
6	Trần Văn Đỗ (1903–1990)		1954–1955
Republic of Vietnam (1955–1975)
7	Vũ Văn Mẫu (1914–1998)		1955–1963
—	Trương Công Cừu (1917–2022) Acting Minister		1963
8	Phạm Đăng Lâm (1918–1975)		1963–1964
9	Phan Huy Quát (1908–1979)		1964
(8)	Phạm Đăng Lâm (1918–1975)		1964–1965
(6)	Trần Văn Đỗ (1903–1990)		1965–1968
10	Trần Chánh Thành (1917–1975)		1968–1969
11	Trần Văn Lắm (1913–2001)		1969–1973
—	Nguyễn Phú Đức (1924–2017) Acting Minister		1973
12	Vương Văn Bắc (1927–2011)		1973–1975

See also

• Minister of Foreign Affairs (Vietnam)