Past Foreign Ministers

Mahmood Tarzi	(1919-1922) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Amanullah Khan
Mohammad Wali Khan Darwazi	(1922-1924) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Amanullah Khan
Ghulam Sediq Khan Charkhi	(1924-1927) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Amanullah Khan
Faiz Mohammad Khan Zekriya	(1929-1939)Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Mohammad Nader Shah and the Kingdom of Mohammad Zaher Shah
Ali Mohammad Khan	(1946-1952) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Mohammad Zaher Shah
Sultan Ahmad Khan	(1952-1953) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Mohammad Zaher Shah
Sardar Mohammad Naim Khan	(1953-1955)Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Mohammad Zaher Shah
Dr. Mohammad Yosuf Khan	(1963-1965)Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Mohammad Zaher Shah
Noor Ahmad Etemadi	(1965-1967) Minister of Foreign Affairs and (1967-1971) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Mohammad Zaher Shah
Mohammad Mosa Shafiq	(1971-1972 and 1972-1973) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Mohammad Zaher Shah
Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan	(1973-1977) Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Republic of Afghanistan
Wahid Abdullah	(1977-1978) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Afghanistan (President Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan)
Hafizullah Amin	(1978-1979) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (President Noor Mohammad Taraki)
Dr. Shah Wali Khan	(Late 1979-Early 1980) Minister of Foreign Affairs (President Hafizullah Amin)
Shah Mohammad Dost	(1980-1986) Minister of Foreign Affairs (President Babrak Karmal)
Abdul Wakil	(1986-1992) Minister of Foreign Affairs (President Dr. Najibullah)
Sayed Salman Gailani	(1992-1993) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Interim Government of Professor Hazrat Sebghatullah Mujaddedi
Hedayat Amin Arsala	(1993-1994) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic State of Afghanistan (Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani)
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai	(1996) Minister of Foreign Affairs of Islamic State of Afghanistan (Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani)
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah	(1998-2006) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Interim Administration, the Transitional Government and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (President Hamid Karzai)
Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta	(April 20, 2006-January 17, 2010) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (President Hamid Karzai)
Dr. Zalmai Rassoul	(January 23, 2010-October 05, 2013) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (President Hamid Karzai)
Zarar Ahmad Osmani	(October 28, 2013-December 06, 2014) Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (President Hamid Karzai)

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on the Onset of the Moscow Meeting

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic of Afghanistan appreciates any country who supports Afghanistan in realizing peace, similarly, it stresses the peace process being led and owned by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Today’s Moscow Meeting, is not a follow up of the previous meetings (Moscow Format) held among sovereign states where the Government of Afghanistan also participated, as in today’s meeting the Taliban have also been invited. In accordance with the principles and decisions of the Tashkent Meeting and that of the Kabul Process, Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban must directly sit around the negotiation table. We emphasize the accepted principles of the Kabul and Tashkent meetings that is based on national and international consensus on the mechanism of dealing with the peace process and thus have not sent any representative to the Moscow Meeting. The High Peace Council participates in this meeting hosted by Russia, as a National but non-government institution, with a view to discuss the dynamics and details of initiating direct negotiations. As per the understanding between Afghanistan and Russia, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan hopes that this meeting leads to direct talks between the Government of Afghanistan and the Taliban and that the Taliban are not allowed to instrumentlaize this meeting.