The Minister of Foreign Affairs ( nl, Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken) is the head of the

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and a member of the

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and the

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. The incumbent minister is Wopke Hoekstra of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) who has been in office since 10 January 2022. Regularly a State Secretary is assigned to the Ministry who is tasked with specific portfolios, currently the function is not in use. Additionally since 1965 there has been a Minister without Portfolio assigned to the Ministry, the Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation has traditionally

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as portfolio, since 2012 the portfolio of Trade and Export has been assigned added to the function. The current Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation is

Liesje Schreinemacher Elisabeth "Liesje" Schreinemacher (born 13 May 1983) is a Dutch lawyer and politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) who has served as Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in the fourth Rutte cabinet sin ...

of the

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( nl, Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie ; VVD) is a conservative-liberal Andeweg, R. and G. Irwin ''Politics and Governance in the Netherlands'', Basingstoke (Palgrave) p.49 political party in ...

(VVD) who has been in office since 10 January 2022.

Agents of Foreign Affairs (1798–1801)

Secretaries of State of Foreign Affairs (1801–1806)

Ministers of Foreign Affairs (1806–1868)

Ministers of Foreign Affairs (since 1868)

Ministers of Foreign Affairs (since 1918)

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Living former Ministers of Foreign Affairs

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Living former State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs

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