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Map of Cape Verde Last reviewed: 25 February 2009

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Due to the history of the country and the large diaspora, Cape Verde has a wide ranging international outlook. The country benefits from close relations with Portugal, and is actively seeking closer relations with the EU as a whole. Its currency, the Escudo, is pegged to the Euro. On 20 November 2007 the European Union agreed to a Special Partnership arrangement with Cape Verde consisting of co-operation on governance, regional integration and information technology.

The country also looks to the African continent, a relationship underpinned by the historic role of the PAIGC as a guerrilla movement fighting on African soil for the liberation of the archipelago. This was cemented in 1977 when Cape Verde joined the sub-regional organisation ECOWAS. Cape Verde is also a founding member of the Lusophone organisation the CPLP and seeks closer economic links with Brazil as a transit hub for trade with the EU.

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Bilateral Relations with the UK

Bilateral Contacts

Relations are friendly but not substantial. A British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union visited Cape Verde in September 2001, followed by a visit to the UK by Cape Verde’s National Assembly Speaker, Mr Aristides Lima, in November 2002. More recently a parliamentary delegation from Cape Verde visited the UK in May 2003. A small but increasing number of British mationals are acquiring holiday or retirement homes on the archipelago.

Diplomatic Relations

The British Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, is responsible for the UK’s relations with Cape Verde. There is no Cape Verdean Embassy in London - the Cape Verdean Ambassador to the UK is Resident in Brussels. The contact details are as follows:

Avenue Jeanne 29
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium

Telephone (+32) 2.643.62.70
Telefax (+32) 2.646.33.85
E-mail emb.caboverde@skynet.be
Head of Mission Mr Fernando Jorge Whanon Ferreira, Ambassador

The UK has an Honorary Consul, Mr Antonio Canuto, based in Mindelo, Sao Vicente. There are historic UK links with Mindelo which British ships used for bunkering until the 1950s. There is a very small Cape Verdean community in the UK, mainly the families of former seamen.

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Cape Verde

Address:

Embassy of the Republic of Cape Verde
Avenue Jeane 29 1050 Brussels


Telephone:

 (00) 32 2 643 62 70


Fax:

(00) 32 2 646 33 85

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