In Zurich, Switzerland, she will attend a signing ceremony normalizing relations between Turkey and Armenia.

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This week, for example, Japan and North Korea sat down in Pyongyang to discuss normalizing relations.

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While the United States praised the North for its action, the two countries are still a long way from normalizing relations.

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U.S. President Barack Obama and Raul Castro spoke on the phone Friday to discuss the process of normalizing relations between the two countries.

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We believe in such initiatives, but we also strongly believe there are other ways of normalizing relations between groups that sometimes clash.

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She reiterated that the United States and its partners in the talks would push a "package of incentives and opportunities, including normalizing relations" between Washington and Pyongyang.

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On the sidelines, its foreign minister had the first face-to-face meetings in years, if not decades, with counterparts from South Korea, Japan and the U.S. Canada agreed to join Australia, the Philippines, Italy and Kuwait in normalizing relations.

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More to the point, the advocates of a new separate peace with Hanoi invariably contend that even greater cooperation on accounting for the missing will flow from normalizing trade relations.

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If the talks are used wisely, 2012 might become the year that the U.S. and Iran begin serious efforts to defuse the crisis and perhaps even start a long-term process of normalizing their relations.

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