France–Iceland relations
 | |
 France |
 Iceland |
|---|---|
French–Icelandic relations are foreign relations between
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the United Nations
.
History
French seamen started fishing in the seas nearby Iceland in the 18th century. In the 1900s the French organization Société des hopitaux francais d´Islande built three hospitals in Iceland, one in Reykjavík, one in the
Vestmann Islands and one in Fáskrúðsfjörður, East-Iceland. Of those three hospitals, the hospital in Fáskrúðsfjörður was rebuilt in 2009–2014. In 1955 a cemetery was built in Fáskrúðsfjörður for 49 French seamen.[1]
Trade and investment
In 2014, Iceland directly exported goods worth 12.7 billion ISK to France, making them the seventh export destination of Iceland.[2]
Resident diplomatic missions
-
Embassy of France in Reykjavík -
Embassy of Iceland in Paris
See also
- Ambassador of Iceland to France
References
- hdl:1946/11354.
- ^ "Viðskiptatengslin á milli Íslands og Frakklands styrkjast". The French-Icelandic commerce council (in Icelandic). Retrieved 7 July 2015.
- ^ Embassy of France in Iceland
- ^ "Embassy of Iceland in Paris". Archived from the original on 2017-12-23. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| Americas |  | |
|---|---|---|
| Asia | ||
| Europe | ||
| Multilateral organizations | ||
| Missions | ||
 | This Iceland-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This France-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about bilateral relations is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |