Foreign relations of Chile
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Since its return to democracy in 1990, Chile has been an active participant in the regional and international arena.Schenoni, Luis (2017) "Subsystemic Unipolarities?" in Strategic Analysis, 41(1): 74–86 [https://www.academia.edu/30528886/_Subsystemic_Unipolarities_Power_Distribution_and_State_Behaviour_in_South_America_and_Southern_Africa_in_Strategic_Analysis_41_1_74-86] Chile assumed a two-year non-permanent position on the UN Security Council in January 2003 and was re-elected to the council in October 2013.{{cite web|title=Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia elected to serve on UN Security Council|date=17 October 2013|access-date=17 October 2013|publisher=United Nations|url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46277&Cr=security+council&Cr1=#.UmAVWCQd5TQ}} It is also an active member of the UN family of agencies, serving as a member of the Commission on Human Rights and participating in UN peacekeeping activities. Chile hosted the second Summit of the Americas in 1998, was the chair of the Rio Group in 2001, hosted the Defense Ministerial of the Americas in 2002, and the APEC summit and related meetings in 2004. In 2005 it hosted the Community of Democracies ministerial conference. It is an associate member of Mercosur and a full member of APEC. The OECD agreed to invite Chile to be among four countries to open discussions in becoming an official member.{{cite web|url=http://www.chileusafta.com/noticia+47.htm|title=chileusafta Resources and Information.|website=www.chileusafta.com|access-date=2020-06-06|archive-date=2020-06-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606233808/http://www.chileusafta.com/noticia+47.htm|url-status=dead}}
Diplomatic relations
List of countries which Chile maintains diplomatic relations with:
Bilateral relations
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|{{flag|Kenya}} | September 1975 | See Chile–Kenya relations
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|{{flag|Libya}} | 20 May 1971 | See Chile–Libya relations
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|{{flag|South Africa}} | 1976 | * Chile has an embassy in Pretoria.
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|{{flag|Argentina}} | 30 January 1827 | See Argentina–Chile relations
Chile and Argentina were close allies during the wars of independence against Spain. Argentine General José de San Martín crossed the Andes with Chilean independence hero Bernardo O'Higgins and together they defeated the Spaniards. However, after independence, relations soured. This was primarily due to a border dispute: both nations claimed the totality of the Patagonia region.{{Cite journal|last=Perry|first=Richard O.|date=1980-01-01|title=Argentina and Chile: The Struggle for Patagonia 1843–1881|jstor=981291|journal=The Americas|volume=36|issue=3|pages=347–363|doi=10.2307/981291|s2cid=147607097 }} Attempts to clear up the dispute were unsuccessful until 1881, when Chile was at war with both Bolivia and Peru. In order to avoid fighting Argentina as well, Chilean President Aníbal Pinto authorized his envoy, Diego Barros Arana to hand over as much territory as was needed to avoid Argentina siding with Bolivia and Peru. Barros succeeded in his mission: Argentina was granted east Patagonia and Chile the Strait of Magellan. However, border disputes continued. In 1902, war was again avoided when British King Edward VII agreed to mediate between the two nations. He established the current border in the Patagonia region. The Beagle conflict began to brew in the 1960s, when Argentina began to claim that the Picton, Lennox and Nueva islands in the Beagle Channel were rightfully hers. In 1971 Chile and Argentina signed an agreement formally submitting the Beagle Channel issue to binding Beagle Channel Arbitration. On May 2, 1977, the court ruled that the islands and all adjacent formations belonged to Chile. See the [http://legal.un.org/riaa/cases/vol_XXI/53-264.pdf Report and decision of the Court of Arbitration]. On 25 January 1978, the Argentina military junta led by General Jorge Videla declared the award fundamentally null and intensified their claim over the islands. On 22. December 1978, Argentina startedSee Argentine newspaper [http://www.clarin.com/suplementos/zona/1998/12/20/i-00401e.htm Clarín] of Buenos Aires, 20 December 1998 the Operation Soberanía over the disputed islands, but the invasion was halted due to:See Alejandro Luis Corbacho "Predicting the probability of war during brinkmanship crisis: The Beagle and the Malvinas conflicts" https://ssrn.com/abstract=1016843 (p.45) : The newspaper Clarín explained some years later that such caution was based, in part, on military concerns. In order to achieve a victory, certain objectives had to be reached before the seventh day after the attack. Some military leaders considered this not enough time due to the difficulty involved in transportation through the passes over the Andean Mountains. and in cite 46: : According to Clarín, two consequences were feared. First, those who were dubious feared a possible regionalization of the conflict. Second, as a consequence, the conflict could acquire great power proportions. In the first case decisionmakers speculated that Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Brazil might intervene. Then the great powers could take sides. In this case, the resolution of the conflict would depend not on the combatants, but on the countries that supplied the weapons. In December that year, moments before Videla signed a declaration of war against Chile, Pope John Paul II agreed to mediate between the two nations. The Pope's envoy, Antonio Samorè, successfully averted war and proposed a new definitive boundary in which the three disputed islands would remain Chilean. Chile immediately accepted this decision, but Argentina still disliked and avoided acceptance until after the lost Falklands War in 1982. Both agreed to Samoré's proposal and signed the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina, ending that dispute.{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/TREATIES/CHL-ARG1984PF.PDF |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/TREATIES/CHL-ARG1984PF.PDF |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Chile and Argentina (with annexes and maps),29 November 1984|access-date=17 January 2017}} In the 1990s, under presidents Frei and Menem both countries solved almost all of the remaining border disputes during bilateral talks. They also agreed to submit Laguna del Desierto to international arbitration in 1994. Almost the entire disputed area was awarded to Argentina.{{cite journal|last1=Parish|first1=Randall R Jr.|title=Democrats, Dictators, and Cooperation: the Transformation of Argentine-Chilean Relations|journal=Latin American Politics and Society|date=2006|volume=48|issue=1|pages=143–174|doi=10.1111/j.1548-2456.2006.tb00341.x|s2cid=232396235}} The last border dispute are {{convert|50|km|0|abbr=on}}. in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field from Mount Fitz Roy to Mount Daudet that is still officially undefined.{{cite web|url=http://www.difrol.cl/acuerdo_de_hielos.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040711000736/http://www.difrol.cl/acuerdo_de_hielos.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 11, 2004|year=1998| title= Border agreement between Chile and Argentina|access-date=October 21, 2006}}{{cite web|url= http://www.turistel.cl/v2/secciones/mapas/informacion/ruteros/aisen.htm|title=Map showing border between Chile and Argentina (partly undefined)|access-date=October 21, 2006}} In August 2006, however, a tourist map was published in Argentina placing the disputed region within the borders of that country. Chile filed an official complaint, sparking renewed efforts to settle the dispute which the Argentine government supports and urged Chile to finish quick as possible the demarcation of the international border.{{cite web|url=https://www.clarin.com/ultimo-momento/friccion-hielos-continentales-argentina-llama-chile-demarcar-limites-posible_0_H1q4qnmJCFx.html|title=Tras la fricción por los Hielos Continentales, la Argentina llama a Chile a demarcar los límites "lo antes posible"|website=www.clarin.com|date=30 August 2006}} Since democratization in the 1980s, both countries began a close economic and political integration as Chile became an associated member of Mercosur. Also both countries practice defense cooperation and friendship policy.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}
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|{{flag|Barbados}} | 3 October 1967 | Barbados is accredited in Chile through its embassy in Caracas, (Venezuela). Chile is accredited to Barbados from its embassy in Port of Spain, (Trinidad and Tobago) and maintains an honorary consulate in Bridgetown. Barbados and Chile formally established diplomatic relations on 3 October 1967.{{cite web|url=https://www.foreign.gov.bb/documents/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=181|title=404|website=www.foreign.gov.bb|access-date=2020-06-06|archive-date=2020-06-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606233814/https://www.foreign.gov.bb/documents/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=181|url-status=dead}} Chile was the first Latin American country with which Barbados formally established formal diplomatic relations.[http://www.barbados.gov.bb/ViewNews.asp?ID=3087&Dat=11/3/2005 Barbados' Prime Minister to Pay an Official Visit to the Republic of Chile]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Barbados Government Information Service, 3 November 2005 Both countries raised the agenda of rekindling ties in 2005 as a precursor to the attempted Free Trade Area of the Americas trade bloc. At current both blocs have discussed the introduction of a free trade agreement{{cite web|url=http://www.sice.oas.org/TPD/CAR_MER/CAR_MER_e.ASP|title=SICE: Trade Policy Developments: CARICOM and MERCOSUR|website=www.sice.oas.org}}{{cite web|url= http://www.sice.oas.org/TPD/CAR_MER/Negotiations/CARMERCom_e.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.sice.oas.org/TPD/CAR_MER/Negotiations/CARMERCom_e.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Joint Communique issued at the conclusion of the CARICOM/MERCOSUR Ministerial Meeting|date=24–25 February 2005}} and more specifically Chile and CARICOM have specifically noted the possibility of establishing a free trade agreement.{{cite web|url=https://psoj.org/|title=PSOJ – The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica}}
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos visited Barbados on February 20–21, 2005[http://www.foreign.gov.bb/Userfiles/File/PressreleaseNo6_05.pdf Chilean President to Visit Barbados] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706133115/http://www.foreign.gov.bb/Userfiles/File/PressreleaseNo6_05.pdf |date=2011-07-06 }}, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Barbados), Press Release dated 12 February 2005 The Barbados Prime Minister later reciprocated by official visit to Chile in November 2005. As part of their meeting the Government of Barbados pledged support to Chilean-diplomat José Miguel Insulza for the post of Secretary General to the Organization of American States (OAS). {{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} In May 2009, Prime Minister David Thompson outlined his plan to further Barbadian relations in the Americas. As part of his outline he named Chile as one of three countries which he desired his government would further enhance relations with in South America.[http://www.gisbarbados.gov.bb/index.php?categoryid=13&p2_articleid=1713 Barbados Hoping To Expand Relations], Barbados Government Information Service (BGIS), 8 May 2009 In August 2017 President Bachelet visited Barbados and met with her Barbadian counterpart to discuss mutual areas of cooperation.[http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/99935/barbados-chile-strengthen-relationship Barbados and Chile to strengthen relationship] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310141555/http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/99935/barbados-chile-strengthen-relationship |date=2018-03-10 }}, Barbados Daily Nation, Added 24 August 2017{{cite web| url=https://today.caricom.org/2017/08/25/barbados-chile-to-strengthen-relations/| title=Barbados, Chile to strengthen relations| date=25 August 2017| access-date=10 March 2018| archive-date=11 March 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311014008/https://today.caricom.org/2017/08/25/barbados-chile-to-strengthen-relations/| url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.barbadosadvocate.com/news/barbados-chile-strengthen-ties|title=Barbados, Chile strengthen ties|date=August 25, 2017|website=Barbados Advocate}}
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|{{flag|Belize}} | 15 May 1990 | * Both countries established diplomatic relations on October 11, 1990.{{cite web |url=http://www.mfa.gov.bz/images/documents/DIPLOMATIC%20RELATIONS.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230194831/http://www.mfa.gov.bz/images/documents/DIPLOMATIC%20RELATIONS.pdf |archive-date=2017-12-30 |url-status=dead }}
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|{{flag|Bolivia}} | 20 April 1873 | See Bolivia–Chile relations
Relations with Bolivia have been strained ever since the independence wars because of the Atacama border dispute (Bolivia claims a corridor to the Pacific Ocean). The Spaniards never bothered to definitively establish a border between Chile and Bolivia. Chile claimed its limit with Peru ran through the Loa River and that Bolivia was therefore landlocked, while Bolivia claimed it did have a coast and that the limit with Chile ran along the Salado River. The border remained vague throughout the 19th century. Finally, Bolivia and Chile agreed, in 1866, to allow Bolivia access to the Pacific and that the limit of the two countries would run along the 24th parallel. The area between the 25th and 23rd parallel would remain demilitarized and both nations would be allowed to mine there.{{cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Boundary_Treaty_between_Bolivia_and_Chile_of_1866|title=Boundary Treaty between Bolivia and Chile of 1866|via=Wikisource}} It was also agreed that taxes on the exportation of saltpeter would not increase.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}} However, in 1879, Bolivian dictator General Hilarión Daza increased the taxes on the exportation of saltpeter, violating the 1866 treaty. When Chilean-owned saltpeter companies protested, Daza expropriated their companies and sold them in a public auction. Daza then put an end to all commerce with Chile and exiled all Chilean residents in Bolivia (the Bolivian port of Antofagasta had more Chileans than Bolivians). In response, Chile declared war on Bolivia and occupied Bolivia's coast. Peru had, in 1873, signed a secret pact with Bolivia in which the two countries agreed to fight together against any nation that threatened either of them. When Peru refused to be neutral in the conflict between Chile and Bolivia, Chile declared war on Peru. Chile defeated both countries and annexed the coast claimed by Bolivia. This was ratified in a 1904 treaty.{{Cite journal|date=1905-01-01|title=Chile|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=div&did=FRUS.FRUS1905.i0011&isize=text|journal=Foreign Relations of the United States}} Diplomatic relations with Bolivia continued to be strained because of Bolivia's continuing aspiration to the sea. In 1964, Bolivian President Víctor Paz Estenssoro severed diplomatic relations with Chile. Generals Augusto Pinochet and Hugo Banzer resumed diplomatic relations and attempted to settle territorial disputes. The secret negotiations started in 1973 and in 1975 diplomatic relations between Chile and Bolivia were established. That year, both dictators met in the Bolivian border town of Charaña. Pinochet agreed to give Bolivia a small strip of land running between the Chilean city of Arica and the Peruvian border. However the Treaty of Lima between Peru and Chile specified that Chile must consult Peru before granting any land to a third party in the area of Tarapacá. Peruvian dictator General Francisco Morales Bermúdez did not agree with the Charaña proposal and instead drafted his own proposal, in which the three nations would share administration of the port of Arica and the sea immediately in front of it. Pinochet refused this agreement, and Banzer broke ties with Chile again in 1978. The failure of the Charaña accords was one of the reasons of Banzer's downfall that very year.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}} Chile and Bolivia maintain consular relations, and appear to have become friendlier. Former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos attended the inauguration of current Bolivian President Evo Morales. Morales has repeatedly announced his intention to establish diplomatic relations with Chile once more, but has still not given up Bolivia's claim to the sea.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}
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|{{flag|Brazil}} | 22 April 1836 | See Brazil–Chile relations
File:Dilma Bachelet 2011.jpg, 15 December 2011]] Chile and Brazil have acted numerous times as mediators in international conflicts, such as in the 1914 diplomatic impasse between the United States and Mexico, avoiding a possible state of war between those two countries. More recently, since the 2004 Haitian coup d'état, Chile and Brazil have actively participated in the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti, which is led by the Brazilian Army. They are also two of the three most important economies in South America along with Argentina.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}
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|{{flag|Canada}} | 28 August 1941 | See Canada–Chile relations
Since 1997 Canada and Chile's trade relations have been governed by the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement, Chile's first full free trade agreement and Canada's first with a Latin American nation.Parraguez, Maria-Luisa. [http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p254561_index.html "Chile's Foreign Policy towards North America"]. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (26 March 2008) |
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|{{flag|Colombia}} | 28 August 1822 | See Chile-Colombia relations
Both nations are members of the Pacific Alliance.
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|{{flag|Cuba}} | 19 October 1903 | See Chile–Cuba relations
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|{{flag|Dominican Republic}} | 1938 | See Chile–Dominican Republic relations
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|{{flag|Ecuador}} | 1836 | See Chile–Ecuador relations
After the War of the Pacific (1879–83) pursued a policy of promoting friendly relationships between countries with disputes with Chile's neighbors. In doing so Chile made attempts to establish friendly relationships between Ecuador and Colombia, both were countries that had serious territorial disputes with Peru in the Amazon. Military cooperation with Ecuador grew considerably after the War of the Pacific with Chile sending instructors to the military academy in Quito and selling superfluous arms and munitions to Ecuador.Burr, Robert N. 1955. The Balance of Power in Nineteenth-Century South America: An Exploratory Essay. The Hispanic American Historical Review. Despite Chile's over-all good relations with Ecuador both countries had a minor diplomatic crisis resulting from the capture of the Peruvian torpedo boat Alay in Ecuadorian territorial waters during the war.{{Citation |last = Tromben |first = Carlos |title = Naval Presence: The Cruiser Esmeralda in Panama |journal = International Journal of Naval History |volume = 1 |issue = 1 |year = 2002 |url = http://www.ijnhonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/pdf_tromben_english.pdf |access-date = 2014-09-25 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140727035003/http://www.ijnhonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/pdf_tromben_english.pdf |archive-date = 2014-07-27 |url-status = dead }} Chile together with the other ABC Powers and the USA were among the guarantors of the Rio Protocol that followed the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War in 1942.{{Cite journal|last=Palmer|first=David|title=Peru-Ecuador Border Conflict Missed Opportunities, Misplaced Nationalism, and Multilateral Peacekeeping|journal=Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs|issn=0022-1937}} |
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|{{flag|Guyana}} | 22 July 1971 | * Both countries have established diplomatic relations on 22 July 1971.{{cite web |url=http://www.minfor.gov.gy/docs/other/diplomatic_relations_list.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-02-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307101008/http://www.minfor.gov.gy/docs/other/diplomatic_relations_list.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-07 }}
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|{{flag|Haiti}} | 7 June 1943 | See Chile–Haiti relations
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|{{flag|Mexico}} | 7 March 1831 | See Chile–Mexico relations
The two nations have maintained relations since 1831.{{cite web|url=http://www.minrel.gov.cl/prontus_biblioarchivo/site/artic/20100524/asocfile/20100524112158/r_chile_mexico.doc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716012905/http://www.minrel.gov.cl/prontus_biblioarchivo/site/artic/20100524/asocfile/20100524112158/r_chile_mexico.doc|url-status=dead|title=Inicio de relaciones diplomáticas entre Chile y México (in Spanish)|archive-date=July 16, 2010}} On May 20, 1914, Chile and the other ABC Powers met in Niagara Falls, Canada, to mediate diplomatically to avoid a state of war between the United States and Mexico over the Veracruz Incident and the Tampico Affair. In 1974, Mexico severed diplomatic relations over the overthrow of President Salvador Allende. For the next fifteen years, Mexico would accept thousands of Chilean refugees who were escaping the government of General Augusto Pinochet. Diplomatic relations between the two nations were re-established in 1990. Currently both countries have signed a free trade agreement that went into effect in 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.aduana.cl/prontus_aduana_eng/site/artic/20070227/pags/20070227171042.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707010208/http://www.aduana.cl/prontus_aduana_eng/site/artic/20070227/pags/20070227171042.html|url-status=dead|title=Free Trade Agreement Chile – Mexico|archive-date=July 7, 2011}} Both nations are founding members of the Pacific Alliance and are the only two Latin-American nations to be members of the OECD.
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|{{flag|Paraguay}} | 22 July 1843 | See Chile–Paraguay relations
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|{{flag|Peru}} | 8 August 1828 | See Chile–Peru relations |
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|{{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} | 3 February 1964 | See Chile–Trinidad and Tobago relations
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|{{flag|United States}} | 6 July 1822 | See Chile–United States relations
File:Michelle Bachelet & Barack Obama 2014.jpg, 30 June 2014]] Chile-United States relations have been better in the period 1988 to the present than any other time in history. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, The United States government applauded the rebirth of democratic practices in Chile, despite having facilitated the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, the build-up to which included destabilizing the country's economy and politics.
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|{{flag|Uruguay}} | 9 July 1869 | See Chile–Uruguay relations
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|{{flag|Venezuela}} | 14 April 1853 | See Chile–Venezuela relations
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|{{flag|Armenia}} | 15 December 1993 | See Armenia–Chile relations
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|{{flag|China}} | 15 December 1970 | See Chile–China relations
Chile recognized the Republic of China until 1970, when diplomatic recognition was switched to the People's Republic of China under the left-leaning Allende. After the 1973 coup by the Pinochet-led junta, diplomatic relations were cut between Chile and all Communist nations, with the exception of China and Romania. The strongly anti-Communist military government in Chile maintained friendly ties with the Communist government in China for the remainder of the Cold War, with Pinochet crediting the Chinese for abiding by the principle of non-interference in other nations' internal affairs."Chile's Right-Wing President Welcomes a Chinese Official." _The New York Times_, June 16, 1987, page A5. China and Chile exchanged military missions and the Soviet Chilean copper exports to China and Chinese loans The friendly relations were cemented by a share distaste for the Soviet Union, the Chinese diplomatic principle of non-interference in other nations' internal affairs, and a willingness to overlook ideological differences in the pursuit of economic ties.Sulzberger, C. L. "Chile and the Coldest War." _The New York Times_, November 29, 1975, page 27. |
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|{{flag|India}} | March 1949 | See Chile-India relations
Chile was the first country in South America to sign a trade agreement with India, in 1956. An ongoing dialogue has nurtured bilateral political understanding. The mechanism of Foreign Office level consultations was initiated in Santiago in August 2000, and was followed up with a second meeting in New Delhi in April, 2003. However, high-level political exchanges have been few and far between. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi visited Chile in 1968, Transport and Communications Minister K.P. Unnikrishnan in 1990, and President Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1995. From the Chilean side, there has not been any HOS/HOG visit to India. As an indication of Chile's interest in an enhanced relationship, the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture visited India in December 2001.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}} |
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|{{flag|Indonesia}} | 29 September 1965 | See Chile-Indonesia relations
Bilateral relations between Chile and Indonesia were established in 1964. These relations were strengthened by the establishment of the Indonesian embassy in Santiago in March 1991.
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|{{flag|Iran}} | 16 January 1908 | Iran severed its diplomatic ties with Chile on August 18, 1980, protesting Pinochet regime's repressive internal policies and giving the Chilean Chargé d'affaires in Tehran 15 days to close the embassy and leave the country.{{cite web | url=http://tarikhirani.ir/fa/events/3/EventsDetail/266/ | title=مرداد 27 | ایران روابط خود را با شیلی قطع کرد | access-date=2015-06-10 | archive-date=2015-06-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610181034/http://tarikhirani.ir/fa/events/3/EventsDetail/266/ | url-status=dead }}
Iran and Chile resumed relations on December 2, 1991, with Iran opening its embassy in Santiago, only to close it again in 1999 citing financial problems. The Iranian embassy in Santiago was finally reopened in 2007 at full ambassador level.{{cite web |url=http://santiago.mfa.ir/index.aspx?fkeyid=&siteid=94&pageid=12978 |title=سفارت جمهوری اسلامی ایران - سانتیاگو |access-date=2015-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610174220/http://santiago.mfa.ir/index.aspx?fkeyid=&siteid=94&pageid=12978 |archive-date=2015-06-10 |url-status=dead }}
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|{{flag|Israel}} | 16 May 1950 | See Chile–Israel relations
Chile recognized Israel's independence in February 1949.{{cite web|title=Bilateral Relationship Chile – Israel |publisher=Embassy of Chile in Israel |url=http://www.embachile.org.il/bilateral.htm |access-date=April 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212042340/http://embachile.org.il/bilateral.htm |archive-date=12 February 2009 }}{{cite web |title=Relaciones Bilaterales: Revisión Histórica (Bilateral Relations: Historical Review)|publisher=Israeli Embassy in Chile |url=http://santiago.mfa.gov.il/mfm/web/main/document.asp?SubjectID=2010&MissionID=16&LanguageID=510&StatusID=0&DocumentID=-1|access-date=2009-04-15|language=es}} Both countries established diplomatic relation on 16 May 1950, with Israel sending their first ambassador on that date and Chile sending their first ambassador on 16 June 1952.
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|{{flag|Japan}} | 25 September 1897 | See Chile–Japan relations
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|{{flag|Lebanon}} | 28 June 1945 | See Chile–Lebanon relations
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|{{flag|Malaysia}} | 26 February 1979 | See Chile–Malaysia relations
The Chile–Malaysia relations is mainly based on trade. In 2009, the total trade between Chile and Malaysia is $336 million with the total Malaysian export to Chile were $16.8 million while the import with $148.7 million.{{cite web|url=http://www.miti.gov.my/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_5cf95b14-c0a81573-53d953d9-567897a5 |title=Media Release: Malaysia-Chile Free Trade Agreement |publisher=Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia |date=18 November 2010 |access-date=13 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722232950/http://www.miti.gov.my/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_5cf95b14-c0a81573-53d953d9-567897a5 |archive-date=22 July 2011 }}
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|{{flag|Pakistan}} | March 1949 | See Chile-Pakistan relations
Chile–Pakistan relations refers to the current and historical relationship between Chile and Pakistan. Formal diplomatic relations between the two states established in 2008.
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|{{flag|Palestine}} | See Chile–Palestine relations
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|{{flag|Philippines}} | 17 July 1962 | See Chile–Philippines relations
Chile and the Philippines were both former Spanish colonies. Diplomatic relations between Chile and the Philippines began way back in 1854 when Chile opened a consulate in Binondo, Manila. But the formal relations established on July 4, 1946, the day that the Philippines officially gained their official independence from the United States.During the authoritarian regime of Ferdinand Marcos in 1980, he invited Augusto Pinochet to visit the country, but later he refused Pinochet's plane to land in the country, this was because of a US program to isolate Pinochet's regime, in which the US pressured Marcos to cancel Pinochet's visit.Chilean-Philippines relations were strained until 1986, when Corazon Aquino later ousted Marcos in the People Power Revolution.
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|{{flag|South Korea}} | 18 April 1962 | The establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea and República de Chile began on 18 April 1962.{{cite web |url=http://www.mofa.go.kr/ENG/countries/latinamerica/countries/20070803/1_24587.jsp?menu=m_30_30 |title=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea |website=www.mofa.go.kr |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122014239/http://www.mofa.go.kr/ENG/countries/latinamerica/countries/20070803/1_24587.jsp?menu=m_30_30 |archive-date=22 January 2014 |url-status=dead}}
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|{{flag|Taiwan}} | See Chile–Taiwan relations
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|{{flag|Turkey}} | 30 January 1926{{Cite web | url=http://www.mfa.gov.tr/relations-between-turkey-and-the-republic-of-chile.en.mfa | title=Relations between Turkey and Chile}} | See Chile–Turkey relations
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|{{flag|Vietnam}} | 25 March 1971 | See Chile–Vietnam relations
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See also
References
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Further reading
- Rodríguez Elizondo, José: Chile-Perú. El siglo que vivimos en peligro. La Tercera-Mondadori, Santiago, 2004
- {{cite journal|last=Parraguez|first = Maria-Luisa|title=Chile's Foreign Policy towards North America|journal=Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, California, USA| date = March 26, 2008|url=http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p254561_index.html|ref=none}}