Foreign relations of Cape Verde

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Cape Verde follows a policy of nonalignment and seeks cooperative relations with all friendly states. Angola, Brazil, the People's Republic of China, Cuba, France, Germany, Portugal, Senegal, Russia, and the United States maintain embassies in Praia.

Cape Verde is actively interested in foreign affairs, especially in Africa. It has bilateral relations with some Lusophone nations and holds membership in a number of international organizations. It also participates in most international conferences on economic and political issues.

Diplomatic relations

List of countries which Cape Verde maintains diplomatic relations with:

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# Country Date[1]
1 Guinea-Bissau 5 July 1975[2]
2 Senegal 6 July 1975[3]
3 Guinea 8 July 1975[4]
4 Vietnam 8 July 1975[5]
5 Japan 11 July 1975[6]
6 Hungary 16 July 1975[7]
7 Portugal 18 July 1975[8]
8 United States 19 July 1975[9]
9 Liberia 27 July 1975[10]
10 North Korea 18 August 1975[11]
11 Cuba 5 September 1975[12]
12 Romania 17 September 1975[13]
13 Russia 19 September 1975[14]
14 Argentina 26 September 1975[15]
15 Czech Republic 28 October 1975[16]
16 Mongolia 19 November 1975[17]
17 Brazil 5 December 1975[4]
18 France 31 December 1975[18]
19 Equatorial Guinea 1975[19]
20 Poland 12 February 1976[20]
21 Mexico 19 February 1976[21]
22 Mozambique 15 March 1976[22]
23 China 25 April 1976[23]
— Holy See 12 May 1976[24]
24 Canada 20 July 1976[25]
25 Nigeria 18 August 1976[4]
26 Egypt 19 October 1976[4]
27 Italy 18 November 1976[26]
28 Netherlands 20 November 1976[4]
29 Sweden 4 December 1976[4]
30 Serbia 1976[27]
31 Mauritania 18 January 1977[4]
32 Luxembourg 31 March 1977[28]
33 Norway 9 May 1977[29]
34 United Kingdom 17 May 1977[4]
35 India 6 June 1977[4]
36 Belgium 12 July 1977[4]
37 Iceland 20 July 1977[30]
38 Ghana 4 October 1977[4]
39 Algeria 19 October 1977[31]
40 Angola 30 October 1977[32]
41 Spain 21 December 1977[33]
42 Republic of the Congo 1977[34][35]
43 Sierra Leone 8 January 1978[36]
44 Iraq 9 January 1978[37]
45 Gambia January 1978[38]
46 Austria 29 April 1978[39]
47 Turkey 24 June 1979[40]
48 Ivory Coast 3 December 1979[41]
49 Tanzania 11 March 1980[42]
50 Germany 2 June 1980[43]
51 Bulgaria 5 June 1980[44]
52  Switzerland 25 June 1980[45]
53 Albania 6 August 1980[46]
54 Tunisia 1981[47]
55 Zambia 10 July 1982[48]
56 Finland 22 July 1983[49]
57 Nicaragua 25 October 1983[50]
58 Ethiopia October 1983[51]
59 Cambodia 23 March 1984[52]
60 Morocco 1985[53]
61 Zimbabwe March 1986[54]
62 Greece 24 April 1986[55]
63 Thailand 2 December 1986[56]
64 Seychelles 9 March 1987[57]
65 Kuwait 30 March 1987[58]
66 Colombia 27 July 1987
67 Pakistan 30 October 1987[58]
68 South Korea 3 October 1988[59]
69 Peru 1 November 1988[60]
70 Bolivia 1 March 1989
— State of Palestine 1989[61]
71 Estonia 1 October 1991[62]
72 Ukraine 25 March 1992[63]
73 Lithuania 28 May 1992[64]
74 Belarus 4 June 1992[65]
75 Kazakhstan 30 July 1992[66]
76 Slovenia 17 August 1992[67]
77 Latvia 21 October 1992[68]
78 Armenia 26 February 1993[69]
79 Slovakia 7 April 1993[70]
80 South Africa 4 April 1994[71]
81 Israel 27 July 1994[72]
82 Croatia 19 August 1994[73]
83 Iran November 1994[74]
84 Singapore 6 October 1995[75]
85 Bosnia and Herzegovina 18 October 1995[76]
86 Marshall Islands 1 December 1995
87 Malaysia 19 January 1996[77]
88 Costa Rica 23 May 1996
— Sovereign Military Order of Malta 1996[78]
89 Namibia 21 August 1996[79]
90 Jamaica 22 March 1999
91 Chile 20 October 1999[80]
92 Philippines 21 March 2000
93 Cyprus 31 March 2000
94 Maldives 23 April 2003
95 Madagascar 9 October 2003[81]
96 Azerbaijan 22 March 2004
97 Moldova 2 September 2004
98 North Macedonia 10 December 2004[82]
99 Bahrain 17 March 2005
100 Qatar 23 March 2005[83]
101 Oman 22 May 2006
102 Andorra 30 June 2006
103 United Arab Emirates July 2006[84]
104 Guatemala 25 July 2006
105 Venezuela 20 September 2006
106 Saudi Arabia 14 March 2007[85]
107 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 30 June 2007[86]
108 Dominican Republic 28 September 2007[87]
109 São Tomé and Príncipe 10 November 2008[88]
110 Australia 22 September 2009[89]
111 Timor-Leste 18 November 2009[90]
112 Georgia 22 January 2010
113 Libya February 2010[91]
114 Sudan 30 May 2010[92]
115 Ecuador 10 August 2010
116 Montenegro 17 December 2010
117 Denmark 17 February 2011[93]
118 Solomon Islands 26 May 2011
119 Fiji 2 April 2012[94]
120 Indonesia 5 December 2012[95]
121 Mali 6 December 2012[96]
122 Gabon 7 December 2012[97]
123 Uruguay 10 September 2013
124 Burkina Faso 14 May 2014[98][99]
125 Democratic Republic of the Congo 14 May 2014[99]
126 Malta 17 March 2016
127 Rwanda 4 May 2017[100]
128   Nepal 3 August 2017
129 Monaco 10 August 2017
130 Bangladesh 6 June 2018[101]
131 Tajikistan 7 June 2018
132 Dominica 15 May 2019
133 San Marino 25 September 2019[102]
134 Kyrgyzstan 26 September 2019
135 Ireland 19 March 2021[103]
136 Panama 5 April 2021[104]
137 Lebanon 20 May 2021
138 Barbados 21 July 2022[105]
139 Saint Lucia 20 September 2022[106]
140 Antigua and Barbuda 22 September 2022
141 Palau 22 September 2022
142 Bahamas 8 December 2022
143 Suriname 12 December 2022
144 Trinidad and Tobago 14 March 2023
145 Guyana 4 April 2023
146 Samoa 9 May 2023
147 Belize 15 February 2024
148 El Salvador 15 February 2024[107]
149 Comoros 25 April 2024
150 Saint Kitts and Nevis 10 May 2024
151 Uzbekistan 23 September 2024[108]
152 Liechtenstein 2024[109]
153 Burundi 19 June 2025[110]
154 Grenada 25 September 2025[111]
155 Botswana 25 February 2026[112]
156 Niger 26 February 2026[113]
157 Cameroon Unknown[114]
158 Kenya Unknown
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Bilateral relations

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Country Formal Relations Began Notes
Angola30 October 1977[32]See Angola–Cape Verde relations

Cape Verde signed a friendship accord with Angola in December 1975, shortly after Angola gained its independence. Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau served as stop-over points for Cuban troops on their way to Angola to fight UNITA rebels and South African troops. Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.[115]

  • Angola has an embassy in Praia.
  • Cape Verde has an embassy in Luanda and a consulate in Benguela.
Brazil5 December 1975[4]See Brazil–Cape Verde relations
  • Cape Verde has an embassy in Brasília.
  • Brazil has an embassy in Praia.
China25 April 1976[23]See Cape Verde–China relations

In January 2007, Manuel Inocêncio Sousa, Minister of Infrastructure, Transports and Sea, acknowledged the People's Republic of China's importance to Cape Verde stating:

"China has been a friend of Cape Verde even before it gained independence from Portugal 30 years ago. Bilateral relations have been very good: in 2002, for example, the trade value between our two countries reached US $1.8 million, in Chinese exports of light industry products and miscellaneous goods."

  • Cape Verde has an embassy in Beijing.
  • China has an embassy in Praia.
Czech Republic28 October 1975 and 1 January 1993
  • Cape Verde is accredited to the Czech Republic from its embassy in Berlin, Germany.
  • Czech Republic is accredited to Cape Verde by its embassy in Lisbon, Portugal[116][117] and an honorary consulate in Praia.[118]
France31 December 1975[18]See Cape Verde–France relations
  • Cape Verde has an embassy in Paris and a consulate-general in Nice.
  • France has an embassy in Praia.
Guinea-Bissau5 July 1975See Cape Verde–Guinea-Bissau relations

The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is about 900 km south-east of Cape Verde in coastal West Africa. Both were colonies of the Portuguese Empire and they campaigned together for independence with a plan for unification, but the countries separated after 1980.[119][120]

  • Cape Verde has an embassy in Bissau.
  • Guinea-Bissau has an embassy in Praia.
Hungary16 July 1975[7]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on 16 July 1975[121]

Hungary is represented in Cape-Verde by its embassy in Lisbon, Portugal[122][123] and an honorary consulate in Praia.[122]

India6 June 1977[4]See Cape Verde–India relations

After Cape Verde became a Portuguese colony in the 15th century, it became an important transit point for trade routes from Europe to India and Australia.[124] The Embassy of India in Dakar, Senegal is concurrently accredited to Cape Verde. Cape Verde maintains an Honorary Consulate General in New Delhi.[125]

Foreign Minister Jose Brito was the first Cape Verdean minister to visit India in November 2009.[126] Minister of State for Rural Development Sudarshan Bhagat visited Cape Verde in September 2015 as the Prime Minister's Special Envoy. Bhagat invited Cape Verde to send a delegation to attend the third India Africa Forum Summit. Foreign Minister Tolentini Araujo Jorge led the Cape Verdean delegation to participate in the Summit in New Delhi in October 2015.[127]

Bilateral trade between Cape Verde and India totaled US$4.20 million in 2014 to 2015, declining by 40.72% from the previous fiscal. India exported $1.43 million worth of goods to Cape Verde, and imported $2.77 million. The main commodities exported from India to Cape Verde are drugs, pharmaceuticals, plastic and linoleum products, and man-made fibers.[127]

IBSA provided a grant to refurbish a healthcare Centre in Cape Verde. India provided a line of credit worth $5 million to establish a Technology Park in the country. India donated $50,000 in 2010 to help the Government of Cape Verde to fight dengue fever, and supplied computers for the Government's "A New World" programme in October 2012. Citizens of Cape Verde are eligible for scholarships under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.[127]

A small Indian community resides in Cape Verde.[127]

Indonesia

Indonesia is represented in Cape Verde by its embassy in Dakar.[128]

Mexico19 February 1976Both countries established diplomatic relations on 19 February 1976[21]
  • Cape Verde is accredited to Mexico from its embassy in Washington, D.C., United States.[129]
  • Mexico is accredited to Cape Verde from its Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City.[130]
Portugal18 July 1975[8]See Cape Verde–Portugal relations

Both countries established diplomatic relations on 6 July 1975 when Chargé d'Affaires of Portugal Embassy in Praia Manuel António Pacheco Jorge Barreiros presented letters of credentials[131]

  • Cape Verde has an embassy in Lisbon.
  • Portugal has an embassy in Praia.
São Tomé and Príncipe10 November 2008
  • Cape Verde has an embassy in São Tomé.
  • São Tomé and Príncipe maintains an embassy in Praia.[132]
South Africa4 April 1994[71]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on 4 April 1994[133]

  • Cape Verde is accredited to South Africa from its embassy in Luanda, Angola.
  • South Africa is accredited to Cape Verde from its embassy in Dakar, Senegal.
South Korea3 October 1988[59]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on 3 October 1988[134] In 2011 Bilateral Trade were Exports $1,140,792 (Machineries, Automobile, Optical Instruments) Imports: $65,166.[135]

Spain21 December 1977[33]See Cape Verde–Spain relations
  • Cape Verde has an embassy in Madrid.
  • Spain has an embassy in Praia.
Turkey24 June 1979[40]See Cape Verde–Turkey relations
  • The Turkish embassy in Dakar, Senegal is accredited to Cape Verde.[136]
  • Trade volume between the two countries was $9.5 million in 2019.[136]
Ukraine25 March 1992[63]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on 25 March 1992[137]

Ukraine is represented in Cape-Verde by its embassy in Dakar, Senegal.[138]

 United Kingdom1977See Foreign relations of the United Kingdom

The UK established diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom on 17 May 1977.

  • Cape Verde does not maintain an embassy in the UK.
  • The United Kingdom is not accredited to the Cape Verde through an embassy; the UK develops relations through its embassy in Lisbon, Portugal.[139]

Both countries share common membership of the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the World Trade Organization.

United States19 July 1975[9]See Cape Verde–United States relations

The United States provided emergency humanitarian aid and economic assistance to Cape Verde in the period immediately following Cape Verde's independence, as well as after natural disasters, including a hurricane that struck the island of Brava in 1982, and after a severe volcanic eruption on Fogo in 1995. Cape Verde also is eligible for trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), and has signed an Open Skies agreement to facilitate air travel safety and expansion. On July 4, 2005, Cape Verde became the third country to sign a compact with the U.S. Government-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC); the five-year assistance package is worth over $110 million in addressing rural economic expansion, infrastructure development, and development of the credit sector.

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European Union

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