Nepalese-Portuguese relations

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The Nepalese-Portuguese relations describe the intergovernmental relationship between Nepal and Portugal . The countries have had direct diplomatic relations since 1976.

The most important point of contact of the comparatively weak bilateral relations is the Nepalese community of around 4,800 people in Portugal. They are mostly part of the Hindu community of Lisbon , one of the largest Hindu communities in Europe.

No citizens of Portugal are registered in Nepal (as of 2005). However, the country is well known to Portuguese vacationers, especially Himalayan travelers.

history

The Portuguese Jesuit - missionaries João Cabral and Estêvão Cacella arrived around 1627 to Nepal. This made them the first Europeans to visit the country. Their reports were the first detailed information about the region to reach western cultures. Further relations between Nepal and Portugal did not develop afterwards.

Nepal and Portugal established diplomatic relations on September 1, 1976. On April 6, 1978 accredited Portugal's ambassador to India, Luis Gaspar da Silva as the first representative of Portugal in Nepal.

The Portuguese travel journalist Gonçalo Cadilhe also came through Nepal on his 2007/2008 world tour.

Since the devastating earthquake in Nepal in 2015 , organizations from Portugal have also been helping with the reconstruction, including the Nós também somos Nepal project ( Portuguese for: We are also Nepal). Since then, the Portuguese aid organization Assistência Médica Internacional (AMI) has made Nepal a focus of its work.

Nepalese in Portugal

In 2015, 4,798 citizens of Nepal lived in Portugal, most of them in the Lisbon district (3,780) and in the Algarve (500).

In 2006 the Associação de Nepaleses Residentes Em Portugal - NRNP , the Portuguese section of the Nepalese Abroad Association NRN, was founded. It is based in Lisbon. In 2014 the Associação das Mulheres Nepaliesas (AMNP), a civil rights association of Nepalese women, was founded.

NRNP, AMNP and other Nepalese groups also participate in public life in Portugal, for example in the various protests against the anti-social austerity policies since the 2010s.

The Nepalese immigrants also brought Nepalese cuisine into the country, which has enjoyed increasing popularity since then. In the capital Lisbon alone , a few dozen restaurants offer dishes from Nepal today.

Nepal's embassy in Paris is also responsible for Portugal

diplomacy

Portugal does not have its own embassy in Nepal, it belongs to the administrative district of the Portuguese representative in the Indian capital New Delhi . There is a Portuguese honorary consulate in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu .

Nepal also does not have its own embassy in Portugal, but has double accreditation there with its representative in the French capital Paris . There are Nepalese honorary consulates in Lisbon and Porto.

economy

Tanker truck for the Portuguese Galp at Lajes Air Base : Even before medicines, fuel is Portugal's most important export to Nepal

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP does not have a branch in Nepal, the AICEP office in New Delhi is responsible.

In 2015, Portugal exported goods to the value of 68,000 euros to Nepal ( 2014 : 107,000; 2013 : 28,000; 2012 : 575,000; 2011 : 22,000), 55.0% of which was fuel, 31.8% were chemical-pharmaceutical products (mainly medicines ), 8.4% agricultural products and 1.8% plastics.

In the same period, Nepal delivered goods worth 103,000 euros to Portugal ( 2014 : 138,000; 2013 : 255,000; 2012 : 230,000; 2011 : 173,000), of which 72.0% clothing, 7.8% textiles, 7.1% leather and Hides and 6.6% metal goods.

For Portuguese foreign trade, Nepal was 190th as a buyer and 159th as a supplier. In Nepalese foreign trade, Portugal ranks 45th among buyers and 67th among suppliers.

Sunil Chhetri played for the Sporting Lisbon second team for some time

Sports

The Nepalese national soccer team and the Portuguese national team have not yet played against each other (as of February 2017).

Footballers from both countries rarely play in the other country. One of the rare cases is the Nepalese-born Indian Sunil Chhetri , who in the meantime played for the second team of Sporting Lisbon .

Web links

Commons : Nepalese-Portuguese Relations  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Overview of diplomatic relations between Portugal and Nepal , diplomatic institute in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs , accessed on May 4, 2019
  2. ↑ Website on Nepalese-Portuguese migration at the Portuguese Scientific Observatório da Emigração , accessed on April 24, 2017
  3. ↑ Examples of Portuguese Nepal travel offers from João Leitão Viagens , Pinto Lopes Viagens and LusoViagens , accessed on April 24, 2017
  4. ↑ Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal and the visit of the Portuguese Jesuit Patres Father Estevão Cacella and Father João Cabral in 1627 (PDF download, English), five-page article on the website of Pro Bhutan eV, accessed on April 24, 2017
  5. ↑ Website for the Nós também somos Nepal project at www.obrigadoportugal.org, accessed on April 24, 2017
  6. ^ Alfredo Cunha (photos), Luís Pedro Nunes (text): Toda a Esperança do Mundo., Porto Editora, Porto 2015 ( ISBN 978-972-0-04780-9 ), p. 268ff
  7. ↑ Official aliens statistics by district , Portuguese Aliens and Border Authority SEF, accessed on April 24, 2017
  8. ↑ Entry of the Associação de Nepaleses Residentes Em Portugal - NRNP in the business directory www.findthecompany.com, accessed on April 24, 2017
  9. ^ Posting about the Associação das Mulheres Nepaliesas (AMNP) on www.voiceofnepal.net, accessed on April 24, 2017
  10. ↑ Nepalese in Portugal (episode 5) , recorded on YouTube , accessed on April 24, 2017
  11. ↑ Hit list for Nepalese restaurant in Lisbon on the tourist website TripAdvisor , accessed on April 24, 2017
  12. ↑ List of Portuguese diplomatic missions abroad , website of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on April 24, 2017
  13. ↑ Information on the website of the Embassy of Nepal in Paris , accessed on April 24, 2017
  14. ↑ List of the diplomatic missions of Nepal , PDF access, page 316 (internal numbering: page 305), website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal (English), accessed on January 25, 2018
  15. ↑ Bilateral economic relations between Portugal and Nepal , Excel file retrieval from the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP , accessed on April 24, 2017
  16. ↑ see list of international matches of the Portuguese national soccer team # international match balance sheets