Relationship dossier
Ivory Coast
Spain
Relationship assessment
Spain and Côte d’Ivoire maintain a cooperative relationship supported by bilateral agreements and political engagement.
Ivory Coast toward Spain
+25Côte d’Ivoire has engaged Spain in bilateral cooperation, including through agreements associated with President Ouattara’s 2021 visit to Spain.
Spain toward Ivory Coast
+25Spain has engaged Côte d’Ivoire in bilateral cooperation, including through agreements associated with President Ouattara’s 2021 visit to Spain.
Overall relationship
+25Bilateral cooperation and political engagement, including agreements associated with the 2021 presidential visit, support a generally cooperative relationship. The scale and durability of these arrangements are not sufficiently clear to indicate a closer partnership.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Spain and Côte d’Ivoire have pursued bilateral cooperation, including through agreements and political engagement. President Alassane Ouattara’s 2021 visit to Spain was accompanied by agreements intended to strengthen cooperation. The known relationship is cooperative, though its breadth and implementation are not clear enough to characterize it as a close partnership.
Key developments
President Alassane Ouattara visited Spain, with agreements intended to strengthen bilateral cooperation.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of agreements associated with the 2021 visit are unclear.
- Details of ongoing bilateral cooperation in development, security and trade are limited.