Portuguese-Chadian relations

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Portuguese-Chadian relations
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The Portuguese-Chadian relations describe the intergovernmental relationship between Portugal and Chad . The states have had direct diplomatic relations since 1977.

Relationships are unencumbered, but comparatively poorly developed. Most recently, the most important point of contact was the Portuguese participation in the European military mission EUFOR Tchad / RCA in Chad between March 2008 and March 2009.

In 2017, 5 citizens of Chad were registered in Portugal, in 2009 9 Portuguese were registered as consular in Chad, not including military personnel.

history

A C-130 of the Portuguese Air Force, with which Portugal participated in the EUFOR mission in Chad in 2008/2009

Only after the end of the colonial Estado Novo regime in Portugal with the Carnation Revolution in 1974 did Chad, which became independent from France in 1960, come closer to the now democratic Portugal. On April 4, 1977, they established direct diplomatic relations.

On 23 December 1996 doppelakkreditierte to Filipe Albuquerque Orlando , Portuguese representative in Nigeria, the first Ambassador of Portugal in Chad.

In March 2008 the European mission began in Chad, in which the Portuguese Air Force participated in a first mission in the first two months with a C-130 transport aircraft and 30 soldiers. The civil war in Chad had previously escalated again. At the beginning of February, five Portuguese citizens were flown back to Portugal via Paris.

Civil society actors from Portugal are also active in Chad. The Portuguese aid organization Assistência Médica Internacional (AMI) first came to the country in 2004 to take care of refugees from Darfur . Since April 2013, the support of the Dono Manga hospital in the southern Tandjilé Est department ( Tandjilé region ) has been the main AMI project in Chad, which carries out medical projects there and finances almost half of the hospital. Through church organizations such as the Jesuit Refugee Service JRS, helpers from Portugal continue to come to Chad, especially to support the Sudanese refugees there.

The Embassy of Chad in Paris; she is also responsible for Portugal

diplomacy

Portugal does not have its own embassy in Chad, the country belongs to the administrative district of the Portuguese embassy in the Nigerian capital Abuja . There is a Portuguese honorary consulate in the Chadian capital of N'Djamena .

Chad also does not have its own embassy in Portugal; the Chadian representation in Paris is responsible . Chad does not have consulates in Portugal.

Vehicles from the Autoeuropa factory : Vehicles and vehicle parts are Portugal's most important single export goods to Chad

economy

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP does not have a branch in Chad, the AICEP office in the Nigerian capital Abuja is responsible.

In 2017, Portugal exported goods worth 1.191 million euros to Chad ( 2016 : 2.632 million; 2015 : 3.346 million; 2014 : 3.380 million; 2013 : 3.687 million), 45.8% of which were vehicles and vehicle parts , 22.1% metal goods, 17.2% machines and devices, 6.0% minerals and ores, 2.7% optical and precision devices and 2.6% wood and cork.

In the same period, Chad delivered goods worth 6.426 million euros to Portugal ( 2016 : 5.456 million; 2015 : 5.108 million; 2014 : 4.502 million; 2013 : 5.412 million), 98.2% of which was raw cotton and 1.1% machinery and equipment.

This placed Chad in 160th place as a buyer and 90th as a supplier for Portuguese foreign trade, and in 12th place as a buyer and in 25th place as a supplier for Chadian foreign trade.

Web links

Commons : Portuguese-Chadian Relations  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Overview of diplomatic relations with Chad at the Diplomatic Institute in the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on April 13, 2019
  2. ↑ Official Portuguese Aliens Statistics by District , Portuguese Aliens and Borders Authority SEF, accessed on April 13, 2019
  3. ↑ Website on Chadian-Portuguese migration (Table A.3) at the Portuguese Scientific Observatório da Emigração , accessed on April 13, 2019
  4. ↑ Regresso do contingente militar português do Chade - "Return of the Portuguese military contingent from Chad" Press release of the General Staff of the Portuguese Armed Forces of May 16, 2008, accessed on April 13, 2019
  5. ↑ Chade: Dois outros portugueses que estavam no país devem regressar hoje a Portugal - "Chad: Two more Portuguese people from the country are to return to Portugal today" , article of February 4, 2008 in the Público newspaper , accessed on April 13, 2019
  6. ^ Website for the Dono Manga Hospital support project , website of the Assistência Médica Internacional, accessed on April 13, 2019
  7. ↑ Com o JRS no Chade - "With the JRS in Chad" , article by a JRS volunteer in Chad from July 26, 2017, accessed on April 13, 2019
  8. ↑ Entry on Chad in the portal of Portuguese communities abroad , Portuguese Foreign Ministry, accessed on April 13, 2019
  9. ↑ a b c Bilateral economic relations between Portugal and Chad , Excel file retrieved from the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP, accessed on April 13, 2019