Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Since conference and of the Food and Agriculture Organization's publication World Festival of Trees, and a resolution of the United Nations in 1954: " The Conference, recognising the need of arousing mass consciousness of the aesthetic, physical and economic value of trees, recommends a World Festival of Trees to be celebrated annually in each member country on a date suited to local conditions "; it has been adopted by the Netherlands.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen ( now with Arsenal ) and winger Tom de Mul ( now with Sevilla ), all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch youth international Javier Martina and Vurnon Anita of the Netherlands Antilles.

Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

In the Netherlands, the company TNO has designed Bioaerosol Single Particle Recognition eQuipment ( BiosparQ ).

The Netherlands has been most advanced in adopting a census using administrative data.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force has adopted the English spelling of commodore for an equivalent rank.

This optional protocol has been ratified by all EU states except five ( namely Belgium, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and United Kingdom ).

In the Netherlands and Belgium, where euthanasia has been legalized, it still remains homicide although it is not prosecuted and not punishable if the perpetrator ( the doctor ) meets certain legal exceptions.

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

A 13 year long observation performed by the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, on 120, 000 subjects between 55 and 70, has shown that increased intake of acrylamide ( formed when potatoes are baked or fried ) is correlated with a 60 % higher rate of kidney cancer.

In the Netherlands Fox News has been carried by cable providers UPC and CASEMA and satellite provider Canaldigitaal ; all have dropped the channel in recent years.

The phenomenon has spread to other European countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

The Netherlands has introduced a new system of health care insurance based on risk equalization through a risk equalization pool.

On 3 July 2005, the country became the first country in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples ( Belgium has allowed same-sex marriage since 2003 and co-parenting since April 2006, and the Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since 2001 and now has a law in preparation to provide full adoption rights in equal conditions to opposite-sex marriages ).

Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been called " the Netherlands ' greatest and only rock ' n ' roll star ," later in life he became a well-known painter.

The concentration of broadcasters in Hilversum has given it its enduring status as the media city for The Netherlands.

For example, a dedication has been found as far away as Woerden ( Netherlands ).

In 2009, Sweden's largest television station, SVT, revealed that IKEA's money — the three per cent collection from each store — does not actually go to a charitable foundation in the Netherlands, as IKEA has said.

This has led to some national policies such as fuel and emission taxes for domestic air travel in the Netherlands and Norway, respectively.

The tour has also traveled to Australia several times, Aarhus University in Denmark in April 2009, Italy and The Netherlands.

In 1999 the event was hosted by England, with some matches also being held in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands.

* It hosted the first Mars Society European Leaders Meeting, with representatives from France, Germany, Poland, Spain and the Netherlands.

The 2008 racing calendar consisted of 18 rounds in 16 different countries ( Spain which hosted 3 rounds, Qatar, Turkey, China, France, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, San Marino, Portugal, Japan, Australia and Malaysia ).

Plans to further expand the ground to 45, 000 seats are being examined, this would have been a mandatory task if the World Cup of 2018 or 2022 would have been hosted by the Netherlands and Belgium.

The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration is guided by a small core group of the most active Partners, supported by a Secretariat hosted by IUCN and by a Learning Network Facilitator hosted by Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation in the Netherlands and a Senior Forest Policy Advisor of the IUCN Toronto and the Environment Agency.

In 1991 / 1992, Aullville hosted the first exchange student from The Netherlands for a year.

The 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup, the seventh edition of the tournament, was hosted primarily by England, with some games being hosted in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and the Netherlands.

Gentry hosted her own series on BBC-TV in London, which was later widely shown in Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and elsewhere.

The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 was the 21st edition of the contest hosted by NOS and held in The Hague, Netherlands.

West Germany hosted UEFA Euro 1988, and the Netherlands beat the hosts — and traditional rivals — 2 – 1 in the semi-finals, which sparked vigorous celebrations in the Netherlands.

The Ipswich City Council Safe City Monitoring Facility has hosted representatives of law enforcement agencies from the Netherlands, Taiwan, Great Britain and approximately twenty-five local authorities from across Australia to inspect the camera monitoring system.

Additional series were filmed for specific sectors of the global market, including two series of Robot Wars Extreme Warriors with U. S. competitors for the TNN network ( hosted by Mick Foley and Rebecca Grant ), and two of Dutch Robot Wars for distribution in the Netherlands.

* APC's Mexican network, LaNeta, hosted an APC Council meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico and an APC Europe Meeting was held in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

The stadium hosted two Euro 2004 group stage matches, Bulgaria vs. Denmark and Netherlands vs. Latvia.

The Netherlands has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest four times: in 1958, 1970, 1976 and 1980.

Cricket is the most popular sport and Potchefstroom hosted a match from the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup between Australia and The Netherlands, Australia and Namibia, and also between South Africa and Kenya.

The Austria / Switzerland bid is the second successful joint bid in the competition's history, following the UEFA Euro 2000 hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands.

The stadium hosted five matches of UEFA Euro 2004, one of them being the semi-final between Portugal and the Netherlands, which Portugal won 2 – 1.

It also hosted a match between Yugoslavia and the Netherlands in the UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying tournament.

The first SPICE was held in Limerick, Ireland in 2000, " SPICE 2003 " was hosted by ESA in the Netherlands, " SPICE 2004 " was hosted in Portugal, " SPICE 2005 " in Austria, " SPICE 2006 " in Luxembourg, " SPICE 2007 " in South Korea, " SPICE 2008 " in Nuremberg, Germany and SPICE 2009 in Helsinki, Finland.