Foreign Links

Return to Main
Link to our Web Page
Up One Level
:: Europe :::: Belgium :::: Government :::: Embassies and Consulates :::: Foreign ::

Foreign Links

United States - Embassy of the United States of America in Brussels. Offers news, policies, and information about the consulate, visas, and travel.

United Kingdom - Includes information on the Belgo-British Conference. In English, French and Dutch.

Canada - Located in Brussels and accredited to Belgium and Luxembourg. Provides information on trade, culture, education, visas and Canada's role in the liberation of Belgium in the First and Second World Wars.

Japan - Embassy of Japan in Belgium, with information on study exchange programs, and on Japan-Belgium relations.

Sweden - Embassy of Sweden to Belgium and the Swedish Mission to NATO. Describes the Swedish-MATO Partnership-for-Peace relationship.

Fiji - Embassy of the Republic of Fiji, located in Brussels and accredited to Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, the European Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. Has information on Fiji's relationship and dealings with all entities of accreditation.

Singapore - Located in Brussels and accredited to Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Vatican, as well as to the European Communities. Includes information on Singapore-EU relations. In English, Flemish and French.

South Korea - Korean Embassy to the Kingdom of Belgium and the Korean Mission to the European Union. Also has contact information for the Honorary Consul General in Gent, and the Honorary Consuls in Antwerpen, Liege, and Luxembourg.

Australia - Australian Embassy located in Brussels and accredited to Belgium, Luxembourg, and the European Union. With a list of Belgian shops and restaurants specialising in Australian wine and cuisine.

Finland - Contains news, calendar of events, and information about the embassy and consular services. In English, Finnish, Swedish, French and Dutch.

Thailand - The Royal Thai Embassy located in Brussels and accredited to Belgium and Luxembourg, and also accredited as the Mission of Thailand to the European Communities. Lists former Thai Ambassadors to the Kingdom of Belgium, and staff, office hours and days of closure.

Slovenia - Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, located in Brussels and accredited to Belgium and Luxembourg. Includes a list of agreements between the Republic of Slovenia and the Kingdom of Belgium, and with the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Czech Republic - Embassy of the Czech Republic in Brussels, accredited to Belgium and Luxembourg. Summarizes relations and lists bilateral agreements with the countries of accreditation.

Andorra - Embassy of the Principality of Andorra. located in Brussels and accredited to the European Communities, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Germany, and Slovenia. Features information about Andorra, the state and its regulations.

India - Embassy of India, located in Brussels and accredited to Belgium and Luxembourg, and also as the Mission to the European Union. Includes information from the Consular Wing, the Commerce Wing and others.

Philippines - Embassy of the Philippines to the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and the Mission of the Philippines to the European Communities. Includes a list of Philippine organizations in Belgium and Luxembourg.

Armenia - Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Belgium, also accredited to the Netherlands and as the Mission of the Republic of Armenia to the European Communities and as the Mission of the Republic of Armenia to NATO. Includes a history of Armenia and a list of agreements between Armenia and the countries of accreditation.

Estonia - Estonian Embassy in Belgium, Permanent Representation of Estonia to the EU, and to NATO. With detailed staff lists and visa regulations.

Kazakhstan - Information on operations of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Brussels, consular services, Kazakhstan and its relations with Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, the European Communities, NATO, World Customs Organization, European Energy Charter, and the OPCW.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Foreign "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Foreign blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Foreign A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Foreign The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Foreign The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw My other wife is beautiful. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Foreign Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying Foreign A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Foreign Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Foreign Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Foreign "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Foreign In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Foreign The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Foreign It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Foreign Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Foreign "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Foreign "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Foreign If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Foreign The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Foreign Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Foreign We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Foreign There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein Foreign
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |