Relations between Portugal and Saint Kitts and Nevis

Relations between Portugal and Saint Kitts and Nevis

St. Kitts and Nevis Portugal
St. Kitts and Nevis	Portugal

The relations between Portugal and St. Kitts and Nevis include intergovernmental relations between Portugal and St. Kitts and Nevis . They have had direct diplomatic relations since at least 2000.

In Portuguese , the country is called São Cristóvão e Nevis . Relationships are weak, due to low and one-sided trade and few political, historical or cultural points of contact.

In 2016, 17 citizens of St. Kitts and Nevis were registered in Portugal, 16 of them in the Lisbon district and one in the Algarve . In 2005, no Portuguese living in St. Kitts and Nevis were registered with the Portuguese authorities.

history

Portuguese Sephardi at the Feast of Tabernacles in the Netherlands: some emigrated from here to St. Kitts and Nevis

The islands of today's St. Kitts and Nevis were discovered for Spain by Christopher Columbus in 1493 and had been a British colony since the beginning of the 17th century.

With the flight of the Jewish Marranos from Portugal at the beginning of the 16th century, many of these Sephardi went to Northern Europe. Groups of these Sephardic communities also migrated to the Caribbean in batches, especially in the 17th century. This is how Portuguese Marranos came to St. Kitts and Nevis. Portuguese tombstones can also be found on the island of Nevis , most of which go back to these Portuguese Marranas.

St. Kitts and Nevis gained independence from Great Britain in 1983.

In 2000, accredited with the Portuguese representative in Venezuela, Fernando Manuel Oliveira de Castro Brandão , the first Ambassador of Portugal to St. Kitts and Nevis. Mutual embassies did not set up the countries afterwards, St. Kitts and Nevis remained part of the administrative district of the Portuguese embassy in the Venezuelan capital Caracas.

diplomacy

Portugal does not have its own embassy in St. Kitts and Nevis, which is part of the administrative district of the Portuguese embassy in Venezuela.

See also : List of Portuguese Ambassadors in St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Kitts and Nevis also does not have its own embassy in Portugal; its representation in Brussels is responsible for the country.

Mutual consulates have not been set up.

economy

Quarry near Rio Maior : stone building material is Portugal's most important export after St. Kitts and Nevis

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP does not have a branch in St. Kitts and Nevis, the AICEP office in Caracas is responsible here.

In 2016, Portugal exported goods worth 79,000 euros to St. Kitts and Nevis ( 2015 : 5,000; 2014 : 23,000; 2013 : 14,000; 2012 : 7,000), 35.7% of which were minerals and ores (mainly building materials), 33 , 3% chemical-pharmaceutical products, 15.38% plastics and rubber, and 15.3% machines and devices.

In the period between 2012 and 2016, Saint Kitts and Nevis did not deliver any goods to Portugal.

This put St. Kitts and Nevis in 191st place as a buyer for Portuguese foreign trade, while St. Kitts and Nevis came in 61st place as a supplier in foreign trade.

Web links

• Overview of the diplomatic relations between Portugal and St. Kitts and Nevis at the Diplomatic Institute of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Overview of diplomatic relations with St. Kitts and Nevis at the Diplomatic Institute in the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on May 4, 2019
2. ↑ Official Portuguese Aliens Statistics by District , Portuguese Aliens and Borders Authority SEF, accessed on December 31, 2017
3. ↑ Portuguese website on Barbadian-Portuguese migration , accessed December 31, 2017
4. ↑ Fernando Cristóvão (Ed.): Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. Texto Editores, Lisbon / Luanda / Praia / Maputo 2006 ( ISBN 972-47-2935-4 ), p. 58
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Bilateral economic relations between Portugal and St. Kitts and Nevis , Excel file retrieval from the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP, accessed on December 31, 2017