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All three bilateral agreements would bolster relations with important allies.

By an accident of timing, he made his statement on Thursday during a visit to the European Union headquarters in Brussels that underlined his government's desire to bolster relations with Europe.

Mr. McCain argues that the pact would open up markets for American manufactured goods and farm products and bolster relations with an important ally that receives about $600 million a year in counterinsurgency and anti-narcotics aid.

Since becoming president in June, Duterte has had an uneasy relationship with the US and with Obama and has declared intentions to bolster relations with China and Russia as he revamps Philippine foreign policy that has long leaned on Washington.

The first details of the CIA's secret Lithuanian connection emerged in 2009 in the US, where the media quoted former agency staff as saying that the government in Vilnius had granted permission for the establishment of the prisons in an attempt to bolster relations with Washington.

The links were supported by the British Council and welcomed by the Foreign Office in the years after the 9/11 attacks as the UK tried to bolster relations with a strategically critical central Asian state that had formerly been a part of the Soviet Union, and which is a key transit point in Nato's supply lines to Afghanistan.

Prominent anniversaries have bolstered relations with New Rochelle's sister city -- La Rochelle, of course.

That has bolstered relations with some members of Hezb-i-Islami, a party that, unlike Mr. Khalid, has strong ties to Pakistan.

Relations have improved with Pakistan in the past couple of years, and India's role abroad is quietly expanding, for example in delivering aid to Afghanistan, bolstering relations with Myanmar and Bangladesh, and in strengthening trade relationships elsewhere in Asia.

Mr. Yanukovich's decision to travel to Brussels seems intended to send a message to the country that he is serious about bolstering relations with Europe and that he will not be beholden to Russia.

"Everything we did to reach out to the Russians, she would make sure that we were bolstering relations with Poland and strengthening Nato and not overlooking human rights," said Philip Gordon, who was Clinton's undersecretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.