The Aliyev Government has also resisted Iranian demands that it terminate friendly relations with Israel.
And the government has continued the previous administration's policy of cooling its once friendly relations with Fidel Castro's Cuba.
The court said that holding the ship was "a source of conflict that may endanger friendly relations among states".
The American president, however, never forgot that the purpose of friendly relations with the Soviet Union was to defeat it.
It is in a position of strength, and confident enough to have friendly relations with people once seen as enemies.
ASEAN, the group's friendly relations with the western democracies would be soured.
As a government, we are happy that Kenya and the United States enjoy extremely warm and friendly relations that go back to our independence.
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The Syrian government's hitherto friendly relations with Turkey came to an end in 2011, when the Turkish government declared its open support for the Syrian rebels.
You know, I hope that we have quite friendly relations with President Obama, but I try not to give pieces of advice that cannot be fulfilled.
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The United States was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with Myanmar, and our countries have long history and have maintained friendly relations.
Whereas two-thirds of American, British and German employees say they have friendly relations with their line manager, fewer than a third of French workers say the same.
The Italian foreign ministry said in its statement that it still hoped to find a solution "in the spirit of the friendly relations it wishes to maintain with India".
Before meeting the ambassador, Mr Natalegawa issued a statement saying the opening of the office was "clearly incompatible and contrary to the friendly relations that have existed between the two countries".
Education should promote understanding, tolerance, peace and friendly relations between the nations and all racial or religious groups and encourage the development of United Nations activities in pursuance of these objectives.
And the union's general secretary, Doug McAvoy, welcomed the prospect of "friendly relations" and said that "teachers can only benefit from the Conservative party leadership being fully aware of their concerns and needs".
If negotiation is a zero sum game like Monopoly or Scrabble, it requires us to engage in sharp practices, protect our own interests, screw our opponents, and destroy friendly relations.
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Uzbekistan's president, Islam Karimov, who did not take part in the Bishkek meeting, appears to be seeking a different solution to the problem of Afghanistan: he is now trying to establish friendly relations with the Taliban.
Though Mr Medvedev stressed the need for friendly relations, he also implied that such countries might not have the option of following policies that Russia deemed unfriendly (such as wanting to join NATO or host American bases).
Earlier this month the Sri Lankan foreign ministry issued a travel advisory for its citizens in Tamil Nadu, warning them to exercise caution because "extreme elements with vested interests" were attempting to tarnish the country's "friendly relations with India".
Two months ago, the supreme leader graciously pardoned Abdollah Nouri, a former interior minister who had been Mr Khatami's keenest pro-reform adviser until the Special Clerical Court had jailed him for publishing anti-Islamic articles and promoting friendly relations with America.
He withdrew to a house in the south to write art history, dismissed anti-German activists with lectures about realism (not a quality that loomed large during any other period of his life) and maintained friendly relations with a ferocious collaborationist, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle.
Mr. Gaffney examined the lessons of trying to appease Islamofascists by considering the case of Turkey, where the Islamist regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to enjoy friendly relations with and accommodation from the U.S. and European democracies, even as it relentlessly works to snuff out that country's traditions of secularism, tolerance and pro-Western foreign policies.
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The efforts of the United Nations system towards the universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, contribute to the stability and well-being necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations, and to improved conditions for peace and security as well as social and economic development, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations.
"Naturally, even within the fabric of friendly bilateral relations between two allies, there will not be full agreement on every point, " Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of his weekly Cabinet meeting.
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Officially, Sino-Russian relations are friendly, and territorial disputes are limited to a few islands.
Officially-sponsored industrial espionage can waste taxpayers' money and sour relations with friendly countries.
All the while, for strictly selfish reasons, well-run companies will strive for friendly long-term relations with employees, suppliers and customers.
Intent on seizing the title of Asia's dominant power, Beijing has bitterly criticized moves by the U.S. to reassert its presence in the region through strengthened relations with friendly states, including a decision to base U.S. Marines in northern Australia.
Czech politicians, including a former prime minister, Vaclav Klaus, complained that President Havel had damaged relations with a friendly neighbour.
"He has made significant contributions to advancing the friendly and co-operative relations between China and Venezuela, " a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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