Belgium is a country in Europe and member of major international organizations like the European Union and NATO which are both headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
Jakob Gijsbert "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer is a Dutch retired politician, jurist and diplomat who served as the eleventh Secretary General of NATO from January 2004 to August 2009. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), which he led from March 1997 to October 2001, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 2002 until December 2003 under Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.
Bernard Rudolf "Ben" Bot is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
Alexander Russell "Sandy" Vershbow is an American diplomat and former Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The Treaty of Brussels, also referred to as the Brussels Pact, was the founding treaty of the Western Union (WU) between 1948 and 1954, when it was amended as the Modified Brussels Treaty (MTB) and served as the founding treaty of the Western European Union (WEU) until its termination in 2010. The treaty provided for the organisation of military, economic, social and cultural cooperation among member states as well as a mutual defence clause.
André Mernier is former Secretary General of the Energy Charter Secretariat: He served in this post from 2006 to 2011. He is retired since January 2012.
Yaşar Yakış is a Turkish politician. He is a former Foreign Minister, and a former ambassador to the UN Office in Vienna, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. From 2002 to 2011 he represented Düzce as an MP in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. He is a member of the Justice and Development Party, the leading political party in Turkey at the moment and he is the chair of the European Union Harmonization Committee of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. He received the French Légion d'Honneur
Ivo H. Daalder, is President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and has served since July, 2013. He was the U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from May 2009 to July 2013. He is a specialist in European security. He was a member of the staff of United States National Security Council (NSC) during the administration of President Bill Clinton, and was one of the foreign policy advisers to President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.
Dominique Benoit Marie Hubert, Baron Struye de Swielande was a Belgian diplomat, who, at his last post, was Ambassador of Belgium to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Baron Robert Rothschild was a Belgian diplomat. He helped to draft the Treaty of Rome of 1957, the foundation of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1958.
Belgium–Japan relations are the bilateral relations between the nations of Belgium and Japan. Belgium has an embassy in Tokyo and five honorary consulates in Sapporo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, and Fukuoka. Japan has an embassy in Brussels.
Sir Peter Charles Petrie, 5th Baronet, CMG was a British diplomat.
Kingdom of Belgium (Belgium) recognized the independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan) on December 31, 1991. Azerbaijan has been the first Post-Soviet State to establish diplomatic ties with Belgium on February 20, 1992.
Franciskus Romanus Rumoldus, Baron van Daele was the private secretary of His Majesty's Cabinet.
Indulis Bērziņš is a Latvian historian and diplomat, former minister for foreign affairs of the Republic of Latvia.
Claudio Bisogniero is a retired Italian diplomat. From 2007 until 2012, he was the Deputy Secretary General of NATO before serving as Ambassador to the United States (2012-2016). From 2016 until 2019 he was Italy’s Permanent Representative to NATO.
Hendrik Jan Jurriaan (Henne) Schuwer is a Dutch career diplomat who served as the ambassador to Belgium and to the United States.
