The EU's still-evolving foreign service has also forged close links with African and Asian political and trading blocs and plays a growing role in coordinating often-competitive member-state relations with Russia, Brazil and China.
Professional men, merchants, lawyers, scientists and revolutionaries all sought to wrest the business of inter-state relations away from monarchs, despots, generals and a diplomatic corps heaving with aristocrats, and onto a more rational, technocratic footing.
The government's real difficulty lies in the French public's ambiguous view of the individual, the state and relations between them.
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There has been talk of building a pipeline to neighboring Colombia's Pacific coast, but that is unlikely anytime soon, given the state of relations between the two countries.
Given the time that has spent concocting the arrangement, you have to assume to it will pass the ratings agency test (though nothing is certain, given the current state of relations between the French and German governments and the ratings agencies).
It is only privately, in the recesses of Whitehall, that the true state of their relations becomes apparent.
Now Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani has called for a revision in the state of diplomatic relations with Britain.
The union on Friday asked the state Public Employment Relations Board to intervene and settle the issue, but the city labeled the request one of several "useless PR stunts" and said the board did not have jurisdiction.
There is a natural tendency at such moments to look forward and try to work out what events in New York might mean for the future of the two-state solution and relations between Israelis and Palestinians in general.
Any complacency about the state of race relations in Britain has been swept away by the knowledge that what took place that night was not just a single incident but one of thousands of racist attacks, many of which go unrecorded.
Well, with films people have actually seen and enjoyed nominated in a major category, perhaps the awards show will attract viewers who might not care to see Paul Haggis pontificate on the state of race relations amongst narcissistic Angelinos, but would tune in to see whether the Farrelly Brothers, Christopher Guest, or Alyson Hannigan take home a statue.
Contrary to the Arabists' impassioned claims, the waxing and waning of America's relations with Arab states over the years has borne little to no relation to the state of America's relations with Israel.
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She studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and at the School of Public Affairs of the University of Maryland in the United States.
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Dmitry Mints, who is known for his love of London and the traditional English breakfast, studied international commerce at Moscow State Institute of International Relations and is a former head of international business at SDM-Bank.
But the administration -- backed by a variety of immigrant and civil rights groups -- says allowing such state authority would hurt relations between the United States and other countries, disrupt existing cooperative efforts and unfairly target legal immigrants.
The next stage was to implant a UPP, or Police Pacification Unit, a team of police officers specially trained in community relations to establish state presence and allow the conditions to begin the legalization of the favela.
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Observers say relations between Church and state have warmed in Cuba in recent years.
It was a state visit that demonstrated that our relations with India are at the highest of priorities for my administration, and for me personally as President of the United States.
Turkey's relations with EU member-state Cyprus are one obstacle, along with opposition to Turkish membership within other EU states, correspondents say.
"This declaration must include all nuclear weapons, programs, materials and facilities, including clarification of any proliferation activities, " U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month.
Today, John Kerry will sit before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his Secretary of State confirmation hearing.
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Instead it names Steven Wallace and Susan Lehr, chief executive and head of government relations, respectively, at Florida State College at Jacksonville.
South Africa's International Relations Department said the Chief of State Protocol, Bruce Koloane, had been placed on suspension while an investigation took place.
The Blackwater incident in Baghdad strained relations with Iraq and forced the state department to act, the BBC's Jonathan Beale in Washington says.
Russia's State Duma made a conciliatory gesture towards improving relations with Washington Wednesday when it answered calls by Putin to ratify the most recent U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty.
And how would you, after this first meeting -- or second meeting that they've ever had, assess the state of U.S.-Russia relations, based on where they are now?
Unlike the unfriendly reception Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice received yesterday at the Foreign Relations Committee from Democrats and Republicans alike, Gates actually heard some words of encouragement.
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