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Oman - Shatti Al Qurm - Has information on doing business with the Netherlands, how to apply for a visa or a work permit and general information about the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Oman and the Netherlands.

Netherlands - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington DC, with links to the Consulates General in New York, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles.

Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Jakarta, with information about the various devisions of the embassy, including the Defence Attaché, who is accredited in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

South Africa - Cape Town - Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Cape Town. Includes contact information, resources and information on history, culture and education.

Canada - Toronto - Consulate General of The Netherlands in Toronto. Provides consular services as well as trade, passport, business and tourism information.

Canada - Montreal - Consulate General of the Netherlands in Montreal, with jurisdiction in Quebec (except the counties of Gatineau and Hull), New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

Canada - Vancouver - Consulate General of the Netherlands in Vancouver, with consular jurisdiction in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Yukon. Includes contact information for the Honorary Consulates in Calgary, Edmonton and Regina.

Bangladesh - Dhaka - Contains details on consular, commercial and development affairs, and information on the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Bangladesh.

Serbia and Montenegro - Belgrade - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Belgrade. Offers information about the embassy and its activities.

Switzerland - Bern - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Bern. Contains consular affairs, news, details on Switzerland, and contact information.

India - New Delhi - Royal Netherlands Embassy issues temporary residents permits and visas to Indian and Dutch nationals, offers higher studies and scholarships in the Netherlands, maintains bi-lateral relationships with India.

Norway - Oslo - Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Oslo. Includes contact information for the consulates in Bergen, Bod, Drammen, Fredrikstad, Hammerfest, Kristiansand-S, Larvik, Stavanger, Troms, Trondheim, and the Consulate-General in Reykjavik.

South Korea - Seoul - With information on the Royal Netherlands Embassy at Seoul, consular affairs section, and guide to Holland.

Singapore - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Singapore, featuring a list of Dutch companies in the island state.

Sweden - Stockholm - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Stockholm. Features information about the embassy's operations and visa-related forms.

Tanzania - Dar es Salaam - Has information from the Royal Netherlands Embassy on the Dutch language and culture school, on marriages in Tanzania and in Zanzibar, and more in Dutch.

United Kingdom - London - Royal Netherlands Embassy in London. Includes information on consular affairs, visiting, and conducting business with the Netherlands.

Poland - Warsaw - Contains contact details for the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Warsaw, and the Honorary Consul in Wrocław, Gdańsk, Poznań, and Minsk, and also information about the Netherlands and bilateral relations.

New Zealand - Wellington - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Wellington, accredited to, or with consular responsibility for, New Zealand, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, American Samoa, Cook-islands, French Polynesia (Tahiti), New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna-islands, Niue, Pitcairn and Tokelau. Contains details on events, scholarships, consular affairs, and contact information.

Zambia and Malawi - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Lusaka, with news, trade and investment details, and embassy information.

Ghana - Accra - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Accra, with a history of the 300-year Dutch presence in Ghana.

Angola - Luanda - Includes contact details for the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Luanda.

Egypt - Cairo - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Cairo. Includes news, crisis management, education, and related resources.

Denmark - Copenhagen - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Copenhagen. Includes events, travel information, contact details, and facts about the The Netherlands society in Denmark. In Dutch and English.

Ireland - Dublin - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Dublin, including information on culture, education, and science.

Greece - Athens - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Greece. Includes information on a variety of Dutch matters including windmills, tulips and Anne Frank.

Philippines - Manila - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Manila, offering a reward for information about the whereabouts of various missing persons.

Ecuador - Quito - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Quito. With information about consular affairs, the economy and trade, and development cooperation. In English, Dutch, and Spanish.

Russia - Moscow - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Moscow, with links, consular and political affairs, alumni associations, and contact information.

Vietnam - Hanoi - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Hanoi, featuring information on travel to and study in the Netherlands, and on the restitution of art objects lost in the Second World War. Also has contact information for the Netherlands Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City.

Japan, Tokyo - Embassy - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Tokyo, featuring lists of the duties and staff of the political, economic, cultural, consular, agricultural, and science departments, and about the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Osaka-Kobe.

Macedonia - Skopje - Describes the general principles of Dutch foreign policy, and also the small projects supported by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Skopje.

Latvia - Riga - Netherlands Embassy in Riga, with a description of the embassy, information about bilateral assistance and relations, details of consular affairs, and about the restitution of art objects lost during WW2.

Estonia - Tallinn - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Tallinn. Has general information on the Netherlands, on quarantine regulations, and on the divisions of the embassy.

Bulgaria - Sofia - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Sofia, with information on Dutch culture, government, tourism, bilateral relations, current events in Holland, and embassy and consular affairs.

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo - The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Sarajevo, including visa information, an overview of the development aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Embassy staff list.

Czech Republic - Prague - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Prague. Contains information on consular matters, with contact details, opening hours, and staff list, plus visa requirements, country data, and related links.

China - Beijing - Includes information on the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Beijing, and on the Consulates General of the Netherlands in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hongkong. Also has information on doing business and a picture gallery. In English, Chinese and Dutch.

Kazakhstan - Almaty - Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Almaty, with information about the services offered by the embassy.

Taiwan - Taipei - Netherlands Trade and Investment Office, the representative of the Dutch government in Taiwan, handling both visa and trade enquiries.

Croatia - Zagreb - Site include informations about the Royal Netherlands Embassy, its consular, political, economy and trade, agriculture, culture and press, education and science, and environment and water management sections.

Finland - Helsinki - Contains information about the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Helsinki, its operations and visa requirements.

Australia - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Canberra, and consulates in Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Port Moresby. Includes a statement on taxation of Holocaust restitution payments made to Dutch citizens. In English and Dutch.

Turkey - Ankara - With information about the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Ankara, the Consul General in Istanbul, and the Honorary Consuls in Izmir, Antalya, and Iskenderun, and about the services provided.

Israel - Tel Aviv - News and governmental and consular information from the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Tel Aviv. In English and Dutch.

Hungary - Budapest - Features news, information about the Netherlands and the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Budapest, and operations of the consular department and visas.

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Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Abroad "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Abroad I know I'm not in government anymore. 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There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Abroad Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Abroad What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Abroad Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Abroad "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry 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 Abroad The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Abroad All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Abroad Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Abroad I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Abroad The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Abroad "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Abroad "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Abroad "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. 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