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Map of diplomatic missions in Belgium. This article lists diplomatic missions resident in the Kingdom of Belgium.This listing excludes honorary consulates.. At present, the capital city of Brussels hosts 184 embassies.
The Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation (FPS Foreign Affairs) is the foreign affairs ministry of Belgium and is responsible for Belgian foreign policy, relations with the European Union, development cooperation policy and certain aspects of foreign trade policy.
Diplomatic relations were established on 8 March 1831 when has been accredited Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Belgium to France Comte C. Le Hon. [12] France helped Belgium rebel against and gain independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. (See: Belgian Revolution)
Name Date of birth Date of death Office Entered Office Left Party Karel De Gucht: 27 January 1954 18 July 2004 17 July 2009 VLD: Yves Leterme: 6 October 1960
Brussels is a centre of political activity with ambassadors to Belgium, NATO and the EU being based in the city. It hosts 120 international institutions, 181 embassies (intra muros) and more than 2,500 diplomats, making it the second centre of diplomatic relations in the world (after New York City). There is also a greater number of press corps ...
The Académie de Formations et de Recherches en Etudes Islamiques (AFOR) non-profit, created as an independent training centre for imams, had only four students. [20] As of 2018, the nonprofit organization Centre Islamique et Culturel de Belgique, or, in Dutch, Islamitisch en Cultureel Centrum van België (lit.
To provide financial support to Belgian immigrants suffering setbacks, the Société belge de bienfaisance was established in 1921 in Montréal. In 1936–7, it was merged into the newly founded Association Belgique-Canada. [2] The association's level of activity has fluctuated over the years, being more active in the 1940s, less so in the ...
The Centre d'action laïque (CAL; English: Centre for Secular Action) is the umbrella organisation of numerous secularist associations in French-speaking Belgium since 1969. It is integrated in the Central Secular Council (Conseil central laïque), which also coordinates deMens.nu (formerly UVV) in Flanders .