Hatzofe is also concerned about the effect the elections will have on relations with the Palestinians.
Mr Martin will chair a new cabinet committee on relations with the United States.
So long as Boris Yeltsin endured as Russian president, Clinton earned report card ticks on relations with Russia.
He was a point man on relations with big business and some major state-owned companies, and on efforts to boost economic growth.
The government was concerned by the impact on relations with China.
Before he came to office, Condoleezza Rice, who became the national security adviser, argued that the main focus of American foreign policy should be on relations with long-standing allies.
During his defence, Behrouz Geranpayeh, one of Mr Abdi's co-defendants, obligingly denounced some well-known reformists who had, he said, commissioned and financed the poll on relations with the United States.
Then, rival Tim Clark's Emirates set up a 10-year partnership with Qantas -- another oneworld member -- which will clearly have major implications on relations with other alliance members such as BA and Cathay.
Mr Clinton added three more criteria: an assessment of the threat America faces, the cost of the proposed system, and its implications for national security, meaning the impact it would have on relations with Russia and with America's allies.
And our future depends to a great extent on our bilateral relations and on relations our countries have with other partners, and on relations between the U.S. and Russia.
But Croatia is unlikely to put much store on better relations with other bits of the Balkans.
In a 1999 essay, Mr Zoellick wrote that America should concentrate on overhauling relations with Europe and Japan.
Despite campaigns by the journalists' families, Australia has never challenged this version, as it has focused on building relations with Indonesia.
ECONOMIST: Among so many dead in East Timor, a few now famous foreigners
The Americans thus held back from outright confrontation over the Haqqanis, for fear of putting further strains on troubled relations with Pakistan.
After last month's agreement on steps towards ending its nuclear programme, North Korea started bilateral talks on normalising relations with both America and Japan.
Even privately owned enterprises and foreign joint ventures depend on good relations with government officials to enter and stay in a certain line of business.
But African countries, especially, have blown hot and cold, sometimes granting recognition and then withdrawing it, often depending on their relations with Morocco and Algeria.
ECONOMIST: Diplomacy over Western Sahara: Morocco v Algeria | The
Being landlocked, Tajikistan, potentially an exporter of gold and other precious metals, is dependent on long transport routes and consequently on good relations with its neighbours.
While Mr Romney has come under a good deal of fire recently for gaffes, or shooting from the hip, it is only fair to point out that on China, Mr Obama has been triangulating - or adjusting his policy closer to those advocated by his critics - on trade relations with China.
In spite of these hurdles, the U.S. needs to focus and work harder on strengthening its relations with Brazil while seeking their cooperation in confronting the many regional problems that now exist.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Brazil and the Bolivarian Revolution
There was no desire in the EU to repeat the rifts that had occurred over the war with Iraq, said Mr Blair who went on to argue UK relations with Germany and France were good.
On the Russian side, better relations with America rest partly on Mr Putin's calculation that he needs a period of stability in foreign policy while he seeks to build up the Russian economy, and partly on his skill at extracting a quid for quos he had to concede anyway.
This dilemma has a huge impact on Japan's relations with China.
The China Town Hall is a program designed to provide people across the US and beyond the opportunity to discuss issues on China-US relations with leading experts, China Daily reports.
The trade minister, Vu Khoan, said the deal created favourable conditions for Vietnam's admission to the World Trade Organisation and put the seal on the normalisation of relations with Washington begun five years ago with the restoration of diplomatic ties.
Meanwhile, the presumptive GOP nominee was in Canada on Friday, focusing on U.S. relations with its northern neighbor.
CNN: McCain visits Canada; Obama blasts him on offshore drilling
The men were arrested last year after signing a petition that called on Syria to improve its relations with Lebanon.
The paradox is that it used to be on foreign policy, particularly relations with Russia, that Georgia risked embarrassing its allies.
There is no coherent strategy from the eight central European countries on such crucial issues as relations with Russia or energy security.
Yet it is hard to imagine that China can have a higher foreign-policy goal in South Asia than keeping relations with India on a fairly even keel.
ECONOMIST: The giant neighbours are more rivals than partners
应用推荐