Editing Foreign relations of Ethiopia (section)

==Europe==
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|{{Flag|Austria}}
|23 July 1948
|Both countries established diplomatic relations on 23 July 1948<ref name="ReferenceC"/>
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|{{Flag|Belarus }}||18 May 1994||Both countries established diplomatic relations on 18 May 1994<ref>{{Cite web |title=Belarus-Ethiopia |url=https://kenya.mfa.gov.by/en/bilateral_relations/Belarus_Ethiopia/#:~:text=Diplomatic%20relations%20between%20the%20Republic,established%20on%20Mai%2018%2C%201994. |access-date=29 June 2023 |website=Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Republic of Kenya}}</ref>
* Belarus is accredited to Ethiopia from its embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
* Ethiopia is accredited to Belarus from its embassy in Moscow, Russia. 
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|{{Flag|Belgium}}
|25 March 1923
|Both countries established diplomatic relations on 25 March 1923 when Consulate General of Belgium transformed into a Legation and the first Minister Plenipotentiary is Maxime Gerard <ref>{{Cite book |last=Lukian Prijac |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mPG4CgAAQBAJ&dq=consulat+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral+de+Belgique+transformee+en+Legation+25+mars+1923+et+le+premier+Ministre+Plenipotentiaire&pg=PA178 |title=Foreign relations with Ethiopia human and diplomatic history (from its origins to present) |publisher=Lit |year=2015 |pages=178 | isbn=9783643126580 |language=en, fr}}</ref> 
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|{{Flag|Croatia}}||<!--Date started-->||

* Croatia is accredited to Ethiopia from its embassy in Cairo, Egypt.
* Ethiopia is accredited to Croatia from its embassy in Rome, Italy.
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|{{flag|Czech Republic }}||11 February 1944
|Czechoslovakia and Ethiopia established diplomatic relations on 11 February 1944. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) recognized the new Czech Republic as on January 1, 1993, and established diplomatic relations accordingly.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historical contacts |url=https://www.mzv.cz/addisababa/en/on_the_czech_republic_and_ethiopia/ethiopia/historical_contacts/index.html |access-date=29 June 2023 |website=Embassy of the Czech Republic in Addis Ababa}}</ref>
* Ethiopia is accredited to the Czech Republic from its embassy in Berlin, Germany.
* Czech Republic has an embassy in Addis Ababa.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.mzv.cz/addisababa| title = Czech embassy in Ethiopia}}</ref>
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|{{flag|Denmark }}||21 February 1950
|See [[Denmark–Ethiopia relations]]
Both countries established diplomatic relations on 21 February 1950 when first Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Denmark to Ethiopia (resident of Athens) Mr. Hubert Wichfeld presented his credentials.<ref name="Udenrigsministeriets kalender"/> 20 January 1967 both countries was raised their diplomatic missions to Embassy level<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWsEAQAAIAAJ |title=Africa Research Bulletin |publisher=Blackwell |year=1967 |pages=767}}</ref>

* Denmark has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
* Ethiopia is accredited to Denmark from its embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.
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|{{Flag|Finland }}||17 July 1959
|See [[Ethiopia–Finland relations]]
Both countries established diplomatic relations on 17 July 1959.
* Ethiopia is represented in Finland through its embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.
* Finland has an embassy in Addis Ababa.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://formin.finland.fi/public/default.aspx?nodeid=17210&culture=en-US&contentlan=2 |title=Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland about Ethiopia |access-date=13 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716073842/http://formin.finland.fi/public/default.aspx?nodeid=17210&culture=en-US&contentlan=2 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|{{Flag|France }}||20 March 1897||See [[Ethiopia–France relations]]
Both countries established diplomatic relations on 20 March 1897<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bureau |first=Jacques |url=https://books.openedition.org/cfee/588 |title=France Éthiopie - Cent ans de relations: Prologue diplomatique |date=1997 |publisher=Centre français des études éthiopiennes |isbn=9782821872295 |series=Bulletins de la Maison des études éthiopiennes |pages=3–7 |language=fr |chapter=Prologue diplomatique}}</ref>

* Ethiopia has an embassy in [[Paris]].
* France has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
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|{{Flag|Germany }}||7 March 1905||See [[Ethiopia–Germany relations]]
* Both countries established diplomatic relations when signed a treaty of friendship on 7 March 1905;<ref name="hsozkult.de">{{Cite web |title=100 Jahre diplomatische Beziehungen Deutschland-Äthiopien |url=https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-54613 |access-date=1 July 2023 |website=hsozkult.de |language=de}}</ref> a German Legation was opened in Addis Ababa in 1907, and an Ethiopian embassy in Berlin the same year.
* Germany supported Ethiopia in the [[Second Italo-Abyssinian War]].{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
* Ethiopia has an embassy in [[Berlin]].
* Germany has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
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|{{Flag|Greece }}||<!--Date started-->||See [[Ethiopia–Greece relations]]

* Ethiopia is accredited to Greece from its embassy in Rome, Italy.
* Greece has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
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|{{Flag|Ireland }}||1994||See [[Ethiopia–Ireland relations]]
Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1994<ref>{{Cite web |title=Embassy history |url=https://www.ireland.ie/en/ethiopia/addisababa/about/embassy-history/ |access-date=20 November 2023 |website=Embassy of Ireland Addis Ababa, Ethiopia}}</ref>
* Ethiopia closed its embassy in [[Dublin]] in 2021.
* Since 1994, Ireland has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
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|{{Flag|Italy}}||24 June 1897
|See [[Ethiopia–Italy relations]]
Both countries established diplomatic relations on 24 June 1897.<ref name="Italia : Ministero delle Finanze"/>
* Italy was one of the first European countries to open diplomatic relations with Ethiopia.
* Both countries have fought two wars against each other: the [[First Italo-Ethiopian War]] and the [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War]]
* Total trade volume between two countries reached 455,928,352.26 Birr in 2011.<ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.et/BilateralMore.php?pg=20 Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about Italy] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331065231/http://www.mfa.gov.et/BilateralMore.php?pg=20 |date=31 March 2014 }}</ref>
* Italy has an embassy in Addis Ababa.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ambaddisabeba.esteri.it/Ambasciata_AddisAbeba| title = Embassy of Italy in Addis Ababa (in English and Italian)| access-date = 14 November 2014| archive-date = 7 May 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160507125655/http://www.ambaddisabeba.esteri.it/Ambasciata_AddisAbeba/| url-status = dead}}</ref>
* Ethiopia has an embassy in [[Rome]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ethiopianembassy.it/| title = Embassy of Ethiopia in Rome (in Italian)}}</ref> 
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|{{Flag|Netherlands}}||<!--Date started-->||

* Ethiopia is accredited to the Netherlands from its embassy in Brussels, Belgium.
* the Netherlands has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
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|{{Flag|Poland }}||14 July 1945||See [[Ethiopia–Poland relations]]
Both countries established diplomatic relations on 14 July 1945<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ethiopia |url=https://www.gov.pl/web/ethiopia/bilateral-relations |access-date=1 June 2023 |website=gov.pl}}</ref>

* Ethiopia is accredited to Poland from its embassy in Berlin, Germany.
* Poland has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
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|{{Flag|Romania }}||2 July 1957
|Both countries established diplomatic relations on 2 July 1957<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diplomatic Relations of Romania |url=https://www.mae.ro/en/node/2187 |access-date=1 June 2023 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs}}</ref>
* Ethiopia is accredited to Romania from its Permanent Mission in [[Geneva]], Switzerland.
* Romania has an embassy in Addis Ababa.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.mae.ro/index.php?unde=doc&id=6257&idlnk=4&cat=6| title = Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: direction of the Romenian embassy in Addis Ababa}}</ref>
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720153405/http://www.mfa.gov.et/Press_Section/publication.php?Pub_Page_Id=4217 Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about bilateral relations with Romania]
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|{{Flag|Russia }}||21 April 1943
| See [[Ethiopia–Russia relations]]
Both countries established diplomatic relations on 21 April 1943<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 December 2018 |title=Ethiopian Airlines Stretches on the Skies of Moscow. |url=https://www.facebook.com/MFAEthiopia/posts/ethiopian-airlines-stretches-on-the-skies-of-moscow-ethiopian-airlines-ethiopian/2556151684412059/?locale=zh_CN |access-date=20 November 2023 |website=The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia}}</ref>
* Russia has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
* Ethiopia has an [[Embassy of Ethiopia in Moscow|embassy in Moscow]]. The Ethiopian ambassador to Russia is also accredited to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
* The history of this relationship has its origins in the 19th century. Russia supplied the mountain guns the Ethiopian army used in the [[Battle of Adwa]].
* More recently, the [[Soviet Union]] was a major source of military and economic aid under the [[Derg]] and during the [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia]].
* See also [[Alexander Bulatovich]]
* Relations are somewhat unsure owing to Russia's close ties with Ethiopia's neighboring rival, [[Sudan]].
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|{{Flag|Serbia }}||4 March 1952
| See [[Ethiopia–Serbia relations]]
Both countries established diplomatic relations on 4 March 1952<ref name="Keesing's Limited"/>
* Serbia has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
* Ethiopia is accredited Serbia from its embassy in Rome, Italy.
* Ethiopia is a strong advocate for Serbia on the issue of [[Kosovo]].
* The first vessel in the [[Ethiopian Navy]] was a gift from [[Yugoslavia]].
* The Serbian embassy is the former villa of Yugoslav President [[Josip Broz Tito]], which was given as a gift by [[Haile Selassie]]
* On 27 January 2012, after traveling to Addis Ababa in order to reaffirm Ethiopia's stance on Kosovo regarding Serbia, [[Vuk Jeremić]] and [[Haile Mariam]] signed a memorandum of understanding between the two nations' ministries of foreign affairs.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.rtv.rs/sr_lat/politika/potpisan-memorandum-o-saradnji-srbije-i-etiopije_296993.html| title = RTV - 27 January 2012 - Potpisan memorandum o saradnji Srbije i Etiopije (Serbian)}}</ref>
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|{{flag|Spain }}||27 April 1951
|See [[Ethiopia–Spain relations]]
Both countries established diplomatic relations on 27 April 1951<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diario de acontecimientos mundiales del segundo trimestre de 1951 |url=https://www.cepc.gob.es/sites/default/files/2021-12/32536rpi006165.pdf |access-date=29 June 2023 |page=168 |language=es}}</ref>
* Ethiopia is accredited to Spain from its embassy in Paris.
* Spain has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
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|{{Flag|Sweden }}||<!--Date started-->||See [[Ethiopia–Sweden relations]]

* Ethiopia has an embassy in [[Stockholm]].
* Sweden has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
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|{{Flag|Ukraine}}||1 April 1993||Both countries established diplomatic relations on 1 April 1993<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bilateral agreements |url=https://ethiopia.mfa.gov.ua/en/partnership/4773-dogovirno-pravova-baza |access-date=1 June 2023 |website=Embassy of Ukraine to Ethiopia}}</ref>
* Ethiopia is accredited to Ukraine from its embassy in Moscow.
* Ukraine has an embassy in Addis Ababa.
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|{{Flag|United Kingdom }}||1841||See [[Ethiopia–United Kingdom relations]]
The UK established [[Foreign relations of the United Kingdom|diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom]] in 1841.<ref name="britain"/>{{Better source needed|reason=The source only states the year when Ethiopia and the United Kingdom established diplomatic relations.|date=February 2025}}
*Ethiopia maintains an [[Embassy of Ethiopia, London|embassy]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|author=Diplomat Magazine|url=https://diplomatmagazine.com/heads-of-mission/africa/libya/|date=1 May 2016|title=Ethiopia|website=Diplomat Magazine|access-date=28 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429161709/https://diplomatmagazine.com/heads-of-mission/africa/libya/|archive-date=29 April 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The United Kingdom is accredited to Ethiopia through its embassy in [[Addis Ababa]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-embassy-addis-ababa|title=British Embassy Addis Ababa|website=[[gov.uk|GOV.UK]]|access-date=28 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250222014804/https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-embassy-addis-ababa|archive-date=22 February 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>

The UK administered [[Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (Ethiopia)|Ethiopia]] from 1941 to 1942. The UK continued to administered the regions of [[Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement#British Ogaden|Ogaden and Haud]] from 1941, until both territories were relinquished to Ethiopia in 1948 and 1955 respectively.<ref name="ShinnOfcansky2013">{{cite book|last1=Shinn|first1=David H.|last2=Ofcansky|first2=Thomas P.|title=Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WU92d6sB8JAC&pg=PA309|date=11 April 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7457-2|pages=309–}}</ref>

Bilaterally the two countries have a Development Partnership,<ref>{{cite web|author-link=Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |author=((Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)) |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-and-regional-development-partnership-summaries|title=Country and regional development partnership summaries|website=GOV.UK|date=17 July 2023 |access-date=27 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526234739/https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-and-regional-development-partnership-summaries|archive-date=26 May 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> a Double Taxation Convention,<ref>{{cite web|author=[[HM Revenue and Customs]]|date=8 March 2013|url=https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-embassy-addis-ababa|title=British Embassy Addis Ababa|website=GOV.UK|access-date=5 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328113414/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ethiopia-tax-treaties|archive-date=28 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> and an Investment Agreement.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://investmentpolicy.unctad.org/international-investment-agreements/treaties/bit/1495/ethiopia---united-kingdom-bit-2009-|title=Ethiopia - United Kingdom BIT (2009)|website=[[UN Trade and Development]]|access-date=28 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501195438/https://investmentpolicy.unctad.org/international-investment-agreements/treaties/bit/1495/ethiopia---united-kingdom-bit-2009-|archive-date=1 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>
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