The Minister of State and Foreign Affairs of Portugal is in charge of conducting the foreign policy established by the Portuguese government, representing the country in many international meetings. The current minister is Paulo Rangel.
The following is a list of office holders since 1936:
Holders 1936–1947: António de Oliveira Salazar 1947–1950: José Caeiro da Mata 1950–1956: Paulo Cunha (1st time) 1956–1957: Marcelo Caetano (1st time) 1957: Paulo Cunha (2nd time) 1957: Marcelo Caetano (2nd time) 1957–1958: Paulo Cunha (3rd time) 1958–1961: Marcello Mathias 1961–1969: Alberto Franco Nogueira 1969–1970: Marcelo Caetano (3rd time) 1970–1974: Rui Patrício
Since 1974 Colour key #PortraitNameTook officeLeft officePartyPrime Minister1Mário Soares(1924–2017)15 May 197426 May 1975PSAdelino da Palma CarlosVasco Gonçalves2Ernesto Melo Antunes(1933–1999)26 May 19758 August 1975Ind.3Mário Ruivo(1927–2017)8 August 197519 September 1975Ind.4Ernesto Melo Antunes(1933–1999)19 September 197523 July 1976Ind.José Pinheiro de Azevedo5José Medeiros Ferreira(1942–2014)23 July 197612 October 1977PSMário Soares6Mário Soares(1924–2017)12 October 197730 January 1978PS7Victor Sá Machado(1933–2002)30 January 197829 August 1978CDS8Carlos Corrêa Gago(1934–2015)29 August 197822 November 1978Ind.Alfredo Nobre da Costa9João de Freitas Cruz(1925–1984)22 November 19783 January 1980Ind.Carlos Mota PintoMaria de Lourdes Pintasilgo10Diogo Freitas do Amaral(1941–2019)3 January 19809 January 1981CDSFrancisco Sá CarneiroDiogo Freitas do Amaral11André Gonçalves Pereira(1936–2019)9 January 19819 June 1982Ind.Francisco Pinto Balsemão12Vasco Futscher Pereira(1922–1984)9 June 19829 June 1983Ind.13Jaime Gama(b. 1947)9 June 19836 November 1985PSMário Soares14Pedro Pires de Miranda(1928–2015)6 November 198517 August 1987Ind.Aníbal Cavaco Silva15João de Deus Pinheiro(b. 1945)17 August 198712 November 1992PSD16José Manuel Durão Barroso(b. 1956)12 November 199228 October 1995PSD17Jaime Gama(b. 1947)28 October 19956 April 2002PSAntónio Guterres18António Martins da Cruz(b. 1946)6 April 20029 October 2003PSDJosé Manuel Durão Barroso19Teresa Patrício de Gouveia(b. 1946)9 October 200317 July 2004PSD20António Monteiro(b. 1944)17 July 200412 March 2005Ind.Pedro Santana Lopes21Diogo Freitas do Amaral(1941–2019)12 March 20053 July 2006Ind.José Sócrates22Luís Amado(b. 1953)3 July 200621 June 2011PS23Paulo Portas(b. 1962)21 June 201124 July 2013CDS–PPPedro Passos Coelho24Rui Machete(b. 1940)24 July 201326 November 2015PSD25Augusto Santos Silva(b. 1956)26 November 201528 March 2022PSAntónio Costa26António Costa(b. 1961)28 March 202230 March 2022PS27João Gomes Cravinho(b. 1964)30 March 20222 April 2024PS28Paulo Rangel(b. 1968)2 April 2024presentPSDLuís Montenegro
Secretaries
Inês Domingos, Secretary of State for European Affairs Nuno Sampaio, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation José Cesário, Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities
References
External links Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs