Foreign relations of the Comoros

Both countries established diplomatic relations on July 8, 2008.^[2]

Argentina is represented in Comoros by its embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.^[3][4]

Australia is represented in Comoros by its embassy in Port Louis.^[5]

Brazil is represented in Comoros by its embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.^[7]

• Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1977.^[8]
• Both countries are full members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

Comoros also hosted an embassy of China, which established relations during the Soilih regime.^[1] The Chinese had long been a source of aid and apparently wished to maintain contact with Comoros to counterbalance Indian and Soviet (later Russian) influence in the Indian Ocean.^[1]

In August 2008, a Comorian delegation visited China on a good-will visit. Together with the Chinese defense minister Liang Guanglie, and Chief of Staff of the Comoros armed forces Salimou Mohamed Amiri, pledged to increase cooperation between the military of the two nations. Amiri stated that Comoros will continue to adhere to the One-China policy.^[9]

A comprehensive Chinese-assisted treatment campaign has apparently eliminated malaria from the Comorian island of Moheli (population 36,000). Administered by Li Guoqiao at the Tropical Medicine Institute, the program relies on hybrid Artemisia annua of hybrid ancestry, which was used for a drug regimen by which all residents of the island, whether or not visibly ill, took two doses at a 40-day interval. This eliminated the human reservoir of the disease and reduced hospital admissions to 1% or less of January 2008 levels. Visitors to Moheli are now required to take antimalarial drugs, a mix of artemisinin, primaquine and pyrimethamine that China provides for free. When asked about Artemisia exports, Li was quoted, "We want to grow them in China and whatever we export depends on bilateral relationships." Comoros has requested a similar program for Grande Comore and Anjouan, total population 760,000, and Li said that Beijing has agreed in principle.^[10][11]

Cyprus is represented in Comoros by its embassy in Pretoria.^[12]

Denmark is represented in Comoros by its embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.^[13]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on November 7, 2013.^[14]

Comoros is represented in Finland by its embassy in Paris, France.^[15]

Comoros' most significant international relationship is that with France.^[1] The three years of estrangement following the unilateral declaration of independence and the nationalistic Soilih regime were followed during the conservative Abdallah and Djohar regimes by a period of growing trade, aid, cultural, and defense links between the former colony and France, punctuated by frequent visits to Paris by the head of state and occasional visits by the French president to Moroni.^[1] The leading military power in the region, France has detachments on Mahoré and Réunion, and its Indian Ocean fleet sails the waters around the islands.^[1] France and Comoros signed a mutual security treaty in 1978; following the mercenary coup against Abdallah in 1989, French troops restored order and took responsibility for reorganizing and training the Comorian army.^[1] With Mahoré continuing to gravitate politically and economically toward France, and Comoros increasingly dependent on the French for help with its own considerable social, political, and economic problems, the issue of Mahoré diminished somewhat in urgency.^[1]

Comoros claims French-administered Mayotte & the Glorioso Islands.

Both countries established diplomatic relations on February 2, 1978.^[16]

The Comoros and Georgia established full diplomatic relations on 26 March 2010.^[17]

• Both countries established diplomatic relations in June 1976.^[18]
• Both countries are full members of the Indian-Ocean Rim Association.

• Indonesia is represented in Comoros by their embassy in Dar es Salaam.^[19]
• Both countries are full members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and of the Indian-Ocean Rim Association.

Comoros severed the diplomatic relations with Iran in January 2016.^{[citation needed]}

Ireland is represented in Comoros by its embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.^[20]

• Comoros is represented in Italy by its embassy in Paris, France^[21]and an honorary consulate in Rome.^[22]
• Italy is represented in Comoros by its embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania^[23] and an honorary consulate in Anjouan.^[24]

Comorian relations with Japan were also significant because Japan was the second largest provider of aid, consisting of funding for fisheries, food, and highway development.^[1]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on February 24, 2010.^[25]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on September 26, 2013.^[26]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on July 20, 1983.^[27]

• The Comoros does not have an accreditation to Mexico.
• Mexico is accredited to the Comoros from its embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.^[28]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on February 9, 2011.^[29]

• Comoros are represented in Netherlands by their embassy in Brussels, Belgium.^[30]
• The Netherlands are represented in Comoros by their embassy in Dar es Salaam.^[31]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on November 13, 1975.^[32]

Comoros severed the diplomatic relations with Qatar in June 2017.^{[citation needed]}

Both countries established diplomatic relations on August 12, 1976.^[33]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on October 3, 2008.^[34]

Serbia is represented in Comoros by its embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.^[35][36]

Both countries established diplomatic relations on April 8, 2013.^[37]

The close relationship Comoros developed with South Africa in the 1980s was much less significant to both countries in the 1990s.^[1] With the reform of its apartheid government, South Africa no longer needed Comoros as evidence of its ostensible ability to enjoy good relations with a black African state; the end of the Cold War had also diminished Comoros' strategic value to Pretoria.^[1] Although South Africa continued to provide developmental aid, it closed its consulate in Moroni in 1992.^[1] Since the 1989 coup and subsequent expulsion of South African-financed mercenaries, Comoros likewise turned away from South Africa and toward France for assistance with its security needs.^[1]

Diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Union of Comoros were established on 19 February 1979. Four South Koreans were living in Comoros in 2011–12.^[38]

• Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1977.^[39]
• Both countries are full members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

Both countries have established diplomatic relations.^[40]

• The Embassy of the Comoros in Cairo is accredited to Turkey.^[41]
• The Turkish ambassador in Antananarivo to Madagascar is also accredited to the Union of the Comoros.^[41]
• Trade volume between the two countries was 21.1 million USD in 2019.^[41]

• Both countries established diplomatic relations on July 23, 1993.^[42]
• Comoros has an honorary consulate in Kyiv.^[43]
• Ukraine is represented in Comoros by its embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.^[44]

Great-Britain is represented in Comoros by its embassy in Antananarivo, Madagascar.^[45]

The United States established diplomatic relations in 1977 but in September 1993 closed its embassy in Moroni. Presently, The United States Ambassador in Madagascar is also accredited to Comoros. The two countries enjoy friendly relations.^[1] The historic under-commitment by the US within France's sphere of interest in the Indian Ocean looks set to continue after a November 2009 meeting between heads of state.^[46] Future friendly relations continue to look promising between the Comoros and America.

• Both countries established diplomatic relations on May 21, 2005.^[47]
• Both countries are full members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

Both countries are full members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

In April 2008, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation of Yemen and Comoros Ministry of Fishery and Environment signed a "Memo of Understanding" (MOU) concerning agricultural cooperation.^[48]