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Netherlands–United States relations
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Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the United States started in 1776 with the first salute at St. Eustatius's Fort Oranje and continues to this day as one of the oldest continual bilateral alliances in the western world.[1] Today they are described as "excellent" by the United States Department of State[2] and "close" by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.[3] Founding members of the North Atlantic Alliance and allies since John Adams's visit to the Netherlands in 1782, it is considered one of the strongest military and economic alliances in contemporary history.[4]
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Diplomatic mission | |
Dutch Embassy, Washington, D.C. | United States Embassy, The Hague |
Envoy | |
Ambassador André Haspels | Ambassador Shefali Razdan Duggal |
The United States and the Netherlands work together both bilaterally and multilaterally in such institutions as the United Nations, World Trade Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, as well as within the European Union to advance the shared US goal of a more open and market-led world economy and militarily in the context of the North Atlantic Treaty.
As the two nations were never at war or in serious conflict U.S. President Ronald Reagan referred to the alliance in 1982 as "the longest unbroken, peaceful relationship that we have had with any other nation."[5] In 2011 U.S. President Barack Obama reaffirmed that "we have no stronger ally than the Netherlands".[6] In 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump remarked that "the relationship with the Netherlands has never been better than it is now".[7] The two countries have been allies in recent decades in military, anti-terrorism, anti-piracy and peacekeeping missions. They are also the third largest (from the Netherlands to the United States) and largest (from the United States to the Netherlands) direct foreign investors in each other's economies.