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{{Region icon Kylaris}}
'''[[Belmonte]]''' is one of the most important political and economic powers of [[Kylaris|Asteria]], having a strong influence over decision-making in the region. The [[Cabinet of Belmonte|Secretary of Foreign Affairs]] is responsible for leading Belmontese diplomatic efforts throughout the world, with its foreign policy reflecting Belmonte's position on the international stage as it is centred around core national interests such as {{wp|national security}}, {{wp|anti-terrorism}} and {{wp|Multilateralism|economic multilateralism}} while using a {{wp|soft power}} approach.

Belmonte is considered to be a {{wp|Regional power|regional}} and {{wp|Middle power|middle power}} and is closely aligned with [[Halland]] and the [[Euclean Community]] on a variety of issues whilst having positive relations with the majority of nations in the world, especially on the areas of economic cooperation and finances. 
==International organization memberships==
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! Organization
! Ambassador to
! Joined
|-
| [[Community of Nations]]
| Michel Lemos
| 1935
|-
| [[Asteria Inferior Common Market]]
| César Krampf
| 1992
|-
| [[International Council for Democracy]]
| Teresa Rodrigues
| 1938
|-
| [[International Trade Organization]]
| Filipe Gusmão
| 1995
|-
| [[Global Institute for Fiscal Affairs]]
| Marcos Braga
| 2001
|}
==Belmontese missions abroad==
[[File:Belmonte relaçoes exteriores.png|thumb|right|300px|Diplomatic missions of Belmonte:<br>
{{colorbox|#23A63B}} Belmonte<br>
{{colorbox|#232387}} Nations hosting a diplomatic mission of Belmonte<br>
{{colorbox|#CCCED1}} Nations with a non-resident mission of Belmonte]]
===Asteria Inferior===
* {{flag|Aucuria}}<br>[[Kalnaspilis]]: Embassy (Ambassador Carlos Braga)
* {{flag|Gapolania}}<br>[[Nassea]]: Embassy (Ambassador João Bianchi)
* {{flag|Imagua and the Assimas}}<br>[[Cuanstad]]: Embassy (Ambassador Andressa Ferraro)
* {{flag|Jossia}}<br> [[Tellaro]]: Embassy (Ambassador Letícia Severó)
* {{flag|Maracao}}<br>[[Porto Leste]]: Embassy (Ambassador Vincente Costa)
* {{flag|Nuvania}}<br>[[Pietersburg]]: Embassy (Ambassador Henrique Amaral)
* {{flag|Satavia}}<br>[[Port Hope]]: Embassy (Ambassador Renato d'Ávila)
* {{flag|Satucin}}<br>[[Gatôn]]: Embassy (Ambassador Teresa Batteux)<br>[[Pasau]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Fábio Cavalcante)<br>[[Satau]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Hugo Auclair)
* {{flag|Zaralaja}}<br>[[Montes]]: Embassy (Ambassador Gabriel Martins)
===Asteria Superior===
* {{flag|Cassier}}<br>[[New Rayenne]]: Embassy (Ambassador Felipe Alvim)<br>[[Andade]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General João-Luís Cardoso)
* {{flag|Chistovodia}}<br>[[Misto Myru]]: Embassy (Ambassador André Marques)
* {{flag|Eldmark}}<br>[[Hammarvik]]: Embassy (Ambassador Ana Martins)
* {{flag|Halland}}<br>[[Avelon]]: Embassy (Ambassador Ana Curschmann)<br>[[Ealaghleann]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Juliano Gomes)<br>[[Astoria]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Patrício Leite)<br>[[New Warminster]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Carlos d'Arras)
* {{flag|Nuxica}}<br>[[Sant Picano]]: Embassy (Ambassador Henrique Lopez)<br>[[Carútagua]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Marcela Arraes)
* {{flag|Vinalia}}<br>[[Vinalinsk]]: Embassy (Ambassador Otávio Rizzi)
===Coius===
* {{flag|Garambura}}<br>[[Mutimukuru]]: Embassy (Ambassador Paulo Marinho)
* {{flag|Rwizikuru}}<br>[[Guta raMambo]]: Embassy (Ambassador Eduardo Lemos)
* {{flag|Senria}}<br>[[Keisi]]: Embassy (Ambassador Rita Nakamura)
* {{flag|Tsabara}}<br>[[Adunis]]: Embassy<ref>Given the outbreak of the [[Tsabaran Civil War]], the Belmontese embassy in Adunis was temporarily closed. All relations are directly handled in Belmonte and Ângelo Gardet sill remains as ambassador.</ref>  (Ambassador Ângelo Gardet)
* {{flag|Xiaodong}}<br>[[Rongzhuo]]: Embassy (Ambassador Paulo Baumer)<br>[[Baiqiao]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Vera Magalhães)
* {{flag|Zorasan}}<br>[[Zahedan]]: Embassy (Ambassador Marcos Cilibrasi)

===Euclea===
* {{flag|Alsland}}<br>[[Yndyk]]: Embassy (Ambassador Adriano Dieker)
* {{flag|Amathia}}<br>[[Arciluco]]: Embassy (Ambassador Lúcio Lettiere)
* {{flag|Auratia}}<br>[[Cienflores]]: Embassy (Ambassador Fernando Freire)<br>[[Villadad]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Henrique Pena-Lopes)<br>[[Puerto del Rey]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Terêncio Gomes de Melo)<br>[[Guardiã City]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Catarina Buarque)
* {{flag|Azmara}}<br>[[Aalmsted]]: Embassy (Ambassador Ernane Rodrigues)
* {{flag|Borland (Kylaris)|Borland}}<br>[[Newstead]]: Embassy (Ambassador Talita Carvalho)
* {{flag|Caldia}}<br>[[Spálgleann]]: Embassy (Ambassador Bartolomeu Alvim)
* {{flag|Estmere}}<br>[[Morwall]]: Embassy (Ambassador André Passos)
* {{flag|Etruria}}<br>[[Povelia]]: Embassy (Ambassador Armando Scamparini)<br>[[Tyrrhenus]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Aurélio Pagnotto)<br>[[Solaria]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Lúcia Arraes)
* {{flag|Gaullica}}<br>[[Verlois]]: Embassy (Ambassador Emmanuel Bastet)<br>[[Rayenne]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Aldo Camotto)<br>[[Lavelle]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Beatrice Floquet)
* {{flag|Geatland}}<br>[[Blåstad]]: Embassy (Ambassador Juliano Góis)
* {{flag|Hennehouwe}}<br>[[s'Holle]]: Embassy (Ambassador Gregório Lanza)
* {{flag|Kesselbourg}}<br>[[Kesselbourg City]]: Embassy (Ambassador Guilherme Feldstein)
* {{flag|Solstiana}}<br>[[Kvitastrott]]: Embassy (Ambassador Carla Sobral)
* {{flag|Soravia}}<br>[[Samistopol]]: Embassy (Ambassador Fabrício Cruz)
* {{flag|Werania}}<br>[[Westbrücken]]: Embassy (Ambassador Helmut Faehlmann)<br>[[Wiesstadt]]: Consulate-general (Consul-General Renata Carstens)

===International organizations===
* {{flag|Community of Nations}}<br>[[Kesselbourg City]]: Permanent mission 
* {{flagicon image|Astcom_flag.png}} [[Asteria Inferior Common Market]]<br>[[Gatôn]]: Permanent mission 
* {{flagicon image|ICD_Flag.png}} [[International Council for Democracy]]<br>[[Morwall]]: Permanent mission 
* [[International Trade Organization]]<br>[[Spálgleann]]: Permanent mission
* [[Global Institute for Fiscal Affairs]]<br>[[Keisi]]: Permanent mission
<center><gallery>File:Embassy_of_Brazil_in_Canberra_July_2014.jpg|Belmontese embassy in [[Pietersburg]], [[Nuvania]]
File:Distrito Noroeste Rosario 1.jpg|Belmontese embassy in [[Gatôn]], [[Satucin]]
File:Washington_DC_August_2018_13_(Embassy_of_Brazil).jpg|Belmontese embassy in [[Avelon]], [[Halland]]
File:Brazil_Embassy_@_Aoyama_(11495420365).jpg|Belmontese embassy in [[Keisi]], [[Senria]]
File:Embaixada_do_Brasil_em_Madrid_(Espanha)_02.jpg|Belmontese embassy in [[Cienflores]], [[Auratia]]
File:Image-Be_Brazilian_Embassy_04.jpg|Belmontese embassy in [[Verlois]], [[Gaullica]]
File:Gloucester Shire Hall - geograph.org.uk - 307771.jpg|Belmontese embassy in [[Westbrücken]], [[Werania]]</gallery></center>

==Policy positions==
===Climate change===
The first mention of {{wp|climate change}} from the [[Government of Belmonte|Belmontese government]] came in 1988, during the [[Premier of Belmonte|premiership]] of [[Félix Bragança]], in which was declared that the country "should, in the next years, find ways to reduce its contribution towards climate change and environmental degradation." Since then, every government supported further international cooperation to stop climate change, with Belmonte itself being the place for several climate conferences to deal with the issue.
===Refugees and asylum-seekers===
{{see also|Immigration to Belmonte}}
Belmonte received almost four million {{wp|Immigrant|immigrants}} throughout its history, from colonial times to the present day. Many of these immigrants came from [[Euclea|Euclean countries]], the majority of them being [[Auratia|Iustians]], [[Auratia|Auratians]], [[Etruria|Poveglians]], [[Etruria|Vespasians]], [[Werania|Weranians]], [[Caldia|Caldish]] and, to some lesser extent, [[Gaullica|Gaullicans]], [[Hennehouwe|Hennish]] and [[Estmere|Estmerish]]. There also were substantial immigrant groups from [[Senria]] and [[Xiaodong]], as well as [[Bahia|Bahian peoples]] who were forcefully emigrated from their continent to become {{wp|slaves}}. Given Belmonte's {{wp|Multiculturalism|multicultural}} and {{wp|Miscegenation|miscegenated people}}, there is no immigration barriers or quotas whilst the law accepts any refugees and asylum-seekers that flees its country of origin due to persecution on account of its colour, religion or ethnicity, with said refugees being able to apply for {{wp|Citizenship|Belmontese citizenship}}.

===Tsabaran Civil War===
{{main|Tsabaran Civil War}}
After the outbreak of [[Tsabaran Civil War|sectarian conflict in Tsabara]], the Secretary of Foreign Affairs condemned the widespread violence and {{wp|religious fundamentalism}} on both sides, supporting the federal government and the return of the {{wp|Democracy|democratic}} {{wp|Confessionalism (politics)|confessionalist system}}.
===Halland===
[[Halland]] is considered to be Belmonte's principal ally and commercial partner, with the alliance being officially created on the aftermath of the [[Great War (Kylaris)|Great War]] in 1935. During the conflict, the [[Hallandic Armed Forces]] heavily supported both the [[Government of Belmonte|Belmontese government]] located at its {{wp|national redoubt}} and the [[Belmontese People's Front]] in occupied areas, with the alliance expanding to other areas such as trade, finances, military and foreign policy. The friendship reached its height in the 60s, during the premiership of [[Lourenço Bittencourt]], in which Belmonte became totally aligned with Hallandic interests.

It was only in the 80s, with the election of [[Félix Bragança]], that Belmonte started to have its independent foreign policy, despite remaining very aligned with Halland. Currently, both countries have extremely positive relations that hold significant influence over [[Asteria Inferior|Asterian Inferior]] geopolitics, avoiding a [[Satucin]]-based political hegemony in the region.
===Maracao===
As the sole independent {{wp|Portuguese language|Iustian-speaking country}} in the world after Belmonte, [[Maracao]] had relatively positive relations during the 19th and early-20th centuries, albeit a very apathetic one. This was immediately changed after the [[Liberacao|''Liberação'']] and the [[Maracao|establishment of a socialist state]] on the island, with Belmonte, at the time under the [[Sword's Republic (Belmonte)|Sword's Republic]], cutting all forms of relationship and aligning with other anti-Maracan countries in the [[Asteria Superior|Arucian]]. It was only in the 90s that relations started to become normalized, a process which remains very behind even in modern times.

===Chistovodia===
Belmontese-[[Chistovodia|Chistovodian]] relations always were cold due to its socialist regime. However, a normalization of relations between both countries has been underway since the 90s as well, especially under the areas of trade and scientific cooperation.
==See also==
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* [[Politics of Belmonte]]
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[[Category:Belmonte]]