The bilateral relations maintained between
Spain
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and
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...
are scarce.
History
Belarus
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and
Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...
established diplomatic relations on 13 February 1992.
In 2017, Belarus started operating an embassy in Spain. The ambassador of Spain in Moscow is accredited in Belarus. There is an honorary consul of Spain in Minsk.
Formal development of cultural relations took off in January 2018, with the visit of Belarusian minister Alexander Shamko to Spain.
During the
2020–2021 Belarusian protests
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, Spain, along with the rest of the
European Union
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countries, positioned itself in favor of the opposition leader
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Sviatlana Hieorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya (; born 11 September 1982) is a Belarusian political activist. After standing as a candidate in the 2020 presidential election against the president Alexander Lukashenko, she has led the political opposit ...
and against the government of
Aleksandr Lukashenko
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making hi ...
.
Economic relations
As of 2021, trade relations are merely testimonial.
Cooperation
Spain carries out a reception program for children from Belarus, affected by the
Chernobyl disaster
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, by Spanish families (about 3,000
children at Christmas and summer). Spain contributed €50,000
‚¬2008to the Trust Fund of the European Humanities University (in exile in Vilnius). From 2001 to 2012 there was a reader of AECID at the State Linguistic University of Minsk.
Ficha de Bielorrusia
Oficina de Información Diplomática del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y Coperación. Sección: Cooperación.
See also
* Foreign relations of Belarus
The Byelorussian SSR was one of only two Soviet republics to be separate members of the United Nations (the other being the Ukrainian SSR). Both republics and the Soviet Union joined the UN when the organization was founded in 1945.
Prior to 2 ...
* Foreign relations of Spain
The foreign relations of Spain could be constructed upon the foreign relations of the Hispanic Crown. The personal union of Castile and Aragon that ensued with the joint rule of the Catholic Monarchs was followed by the annexation of the Kingdo ...
References
Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...
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