The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington DC represents and promotes the interests of the Netherlands government in the United States.

Most departments (ministries) of the Netherlands Government are represented at the Embassy, including: The Ministries of Foreign Affairs; Defense; Health, Welfare and Sport; Environment, Housing and Spatial Planning; Finance; Transport, Telecommunications, Public works and Water Management; Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries; and Education, Culture and Science.

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About the Netherlands

The Netherlands is a nation of traders and its economy is open, highly-developed and service-oriented. Dutch agriculture is world famous, not only for its dominance of the flower bulb and cut-flower trade, but also for its embrace of intensive agricultural practices. These practices have made the quite impressive for such a small country.

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Because of its economic, security and human rights interests the Netherlands is an active player in world affairs. The Netherlands was a founding member of the UN, NATO and the predecessor of the European Union, and today it is active in a variety of multilateral and bilateral fora. The Netherlands is also the world's third largest donor of foreign and development aid on a per capita basis. The father of modern international law, Hugo de Groot, came from the Netherlands and thus it is no surprise that the Netherlands is home to many of the international community's most important judicial entities, making The Hague the international legal capital of the world.

As a modern, diverse and humanistic people, the Dutch pride themselves on their education, environmental, social and health care policies. These often innovative policies grow out of the consensus-based nature of Dutch society.

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