"I wonder whether that says more about the rest of its foreign policy than about the U.S.-Russian relationship."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Australian foreign minister Stephen Smith is confident that disagreements over whaling will not damage the bilateral relationship.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

Foreign Minister Krishna said the understandings reached with Clinton add a "qualitative substance" to the bilateral relationship.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

There, hundreds of wild varieties exist, but government officials have sometimes had a contentious relationship with foreign coffee sellers.

WSJ: The Indiana Jones of Coffee

Iran's influential parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, submitted the request Monday to the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission which called on the Foreign Ministry to review the relationship, the report said.

CNN: Iran to review ties with Britain amid claims of 'interference'

The far closer working relationship between the Foreign Office and the Quai d'Orsay established in 1991 with the break-up of Yugoslavia has meant that the old scars from the failed collaboration over Suez in 1956 have largely healed.

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