Like its Eastern Caribbean neighbours, the main priority of Dominica's foreign relations is economic development.
The country maintains missions in Washington, New York, London, and Brussels and is represented jointly with other Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) members in Canada.
Dominica is also a member of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, and the Commonwealth of Nations.
It became a member of the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1978 and of the World Bank and Organization of American States (OAS) in 1979.
The country agreed to contribute personnel to the multinational force, which restored the democratically elected government of Haiti in October 1994.
In May 1997, Prime Minister James joined 14 other Caribbean leaders, and President Clinton, during the first-ever U.S.-regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.
The summit strengthened the basis for regional cooperation on justice and counternarcotics issues, finance and development, and trade.
[1] Dominica is also a member of the International Criminal Court with a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the US-military (as covered under Article 98).
[98] Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the Republic of Croatia and the Commonwealth of Dominica was signed on 30 July 2013.
[99] Diplomatic relations were established on 31 March 2004, when Dominica suspended ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan).
[101] In December 2005, during the second CARICOM/CUBA summit held in Barbados, heads of CARICOM and Cuba agreed to deepen their ties in the areas of socio-economic and political cooperation in addition to medical care assistance.
[109] Both countries are full members of the Commonwealth of Nations, of the Organization of American States and of the Caribbean Community.
[111] Both countries established diplomatic relations on 4 June 2014[112] during the General Assembly of the Organization of American States in Asunción.
United States supports the Dominican government's efforts to expand its economic base and to provide a higher standard of living for its citizens.
Previously, the nation's ultimate court of appeal was the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.