The foreign relations of Afghanistan are in a transitional phase since the 2021 fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the collapse of the internationally-recognized Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. No country has recognised the new regime,the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Although some countries have engaged in informal diplomatic contact with the Islamic Emirate,formal relations remain limited to representatives of the Islamic Republic.
Christopher William Dell is a career United States Foreign Service officer who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Angola,Zimbabwe,and Kosovo.
Professor Abdul Ghafoor Ravan Farhâdi is an Afghan academic and diplomat who served as Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 2006.
Said Tayeb Jawad is an Afghan politician,businessman,academic and diplomat. He is the Chief Executive officer of Capitalize LLC,as well as Global Political Strategist and Senior Counselor at APCO Worldwide,and the Chairman of the American University of Afghanistan,a prominent private,liberal arts,not-for-profit,co-education University.
Nanguyalai Tarzi –was a high-ranking Afghan diplomat who was the Afghan Ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative to the United Nations office and other international organisations in Geneva. Tarzi has been the Ambassador of Afghanistan to India,and before that he was Permanent Representative to United Nations at Geneva and Afghan Ambassador to Switzerland,Ambassador of Afghanistan to Pakistan and Director of the United Nations Information Centres (UNIC) in Tehran,Iran. From 1980s to 1990s,Tarzi was Permanent Observer of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to the United Nations,Geneva,Switzerland and United Nations,Vienna,Austria and Senior Political Adviser and Deputy Permanent Observer of OIC to the United Nations,New York,United States of America. In the 1970s,Tarzi was the Afghan Diplomat in Washington D.C.,United States of America.
Zamir Kabulov is a high rank career diplomat and Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan. He is the Special Representative for Afghanistan since 2022
Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko is a Russian diplomat. He served as the Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom between January 2011 and August 2019. Since August 2019,he has been rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia. While working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow,he was in charge of multilateral diplomacy. A graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1976,he later gained a Doctor of Law degree. Yakovenko holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,and speaks Russian,English and French.
Diplomatic relations between Afghanistan and Japan were officially established in 1931,although early contacts date back to 1907 when the Afghan general Ayub Khan,who defeated the British in the Battle of Maiwand,visited Japan.
Antonio de Aguiar Patriota is the current Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom and former Minister of Foreign Affairs. Patriota took office as foreign minister on January 1,2011,and remained in office until August 26,2013.
Mahmoud Saikal is a senior Afghan diplomat and an international development specialist. He was the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United Nations from October 2015 until February 2019.
Georgi Velikov Panayotov is a Bulgarian politician who was a minister in the Yanev II government,serving as Minister of Defence of Bulgaria. He is currently the Ambassador of Bulgaria to the United States since May 2022. He has held numerous posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria and in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs department for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He was the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United Nations.
Paik Ji-ah is South Korean Ambassador to United Nations and the other international organizations in Geneva. She was previously the president of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy,South Korea. She is the first woman to be appointed to a deputy minister-level post in the South Korean Foreign Ministry.
Wais Ahmad Barmak is an Afghan politician who served as the Minister of Interior. Prior to that,he served as Minister for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs of Afghanistan and as Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development.
David Zalkaliani is a Georgian career diplomat serving as the Ambassador of Georgia to the United States. From June 21,2018 to April 4,2022 he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. From January 21,2021 to April 4,2022 he was also Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia.
The Taliban has ruled Afghanistan as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since taking control by force in 2021,overthrowing the internationally recognized Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The takeover was widely criticized by the international community,and no countries have extended de jure diplomatic recognition to the new regime,despite nominally maintaining relations with Afghanistan. The Taliban has campaigned for international recognition since the takeover. Several countries have vowed never to recognize the Islamic Emirate,and others have said they will do so only if human rights in the country are respected. Some countries have accredited Taliban diplomats at the chargéd'affaires level despite not recognizing the Islamic Emirate. In September 2023,the People's Republic of China became the first country to formally name a new ambassador to the country since the takeover,and in January 2024 recognized the Taliban's envoy to China;however,the PRC still does not formally recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
Guillaume Kavaruganda is a Rwandan career diplomat who has spent the majority of his career serving in a number of diplomatic capacities.
Vepa Hajiyev is a Turkmenistan politician who is currently serving as Turkmenistan's permanent representative to the United Nations agencies in Geneva and ambassador to Switzerland. From 2006 to 2023 he was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
