Belize maintains 14 embassies to foreign countries, one consulate, and three missions to international organizations.
Recent foreign policy initiatives include joining with the other Central American countries in signing the CONCAUSA Agreement on regional sustainable development and becoming a full member of the Central American Integration System (SICA).
Belize's principal external concern has been the dispute involving the Guatemalan claim to Belizean territory.
The United States is Belize's principal trading partner and major source of investment funds.
As a member of CARICOM Belize strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 940 designed to facilitate the departure of Haiti's de facto authorities from power.
Belize is also a member of the International Criminal Court with a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the American military (as covered under Article 98).
International crime issues dominate the agenda of bilateral relations between the United States and Belize.
The United States is working closely with the Government of Belize to fight illicit narcotics trafficking, and both governments seek to control the flow of illegal migrants to the United States through Belize.
Until the end of 2002, Voice of America operated a medium-wave radio relay station in Punta Gorda that broadcast to the neighboring countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Private North American investors continue to play a key role in Belize's economy, particularly in the tourism sector.
In June 2020, Belize openly opposed the Hong Kong national security law[41] Under the previous premiership of Said Musa, Belize remained a staunch supporter of Palestinian rights and shunned relations with Israel due to the latter's military and intelligence support for Guatemala.
In June 2011, Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington met with Israeli envoy Danny Ayalon to discuss an upcoming resolution in September aimed at recognising a Palestinian state.
However, on 9 September, the Belizean Foreign Ministry issued an official statement recognizing the State of Palestine with the borders prior to the Six-Day War.
[2] Since 2011, Belize and Norway have an Agreement concerning the exchange of information relating to tax matters they had signed in 2010.
Belize immediately recognized Russia as the USSR's successor after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Both countries share common membership of the Atlantic co-operation pact,[81] Caribbean Development Bank, the Commonwealth, and the World Trade Organization, as well as the CARIFORUM–UK Economic Partnership Agreement.