To this end, they seek to bolster ties with rising regional powers like Brazil and South Africa".
Russia is oblivious to outside pressure and is progressively bolstering ties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, whose independence it unilaterally recognised in late August.
Many people in the region see his trip as an effort to bolster ties among Mideast countries that appear to be next in line for American wrath.
Georgia has also accused Russia of amassing weapons in the Akhalgori district of South Ossetia, which used to be under Georgian control before the August war.Russia has several reasons for gradually bolstering ties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The Financial Services Agency in Britain, however, has said it would take steps to require banks to disclose detailed information on cross-shareholdings. (Traditionally, Japanese lenders and borrowers have held stakes in one another to bolster ties).
MUMBAI, India — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. urged India's financial elite to seize the chance to bolster ties with the United States, to benefit both nations on areas like the economy and environment.
The recent energy deals with Russia - supported by Tadic and Nikolic - are as much, if not more, about strengthening Serbia's regional importance, and its value to the EU, as they are about bolstering ties with the Kremlin.
Western sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine are thought to have intensified Moscow's interest in bolstering ties with its Asian neighbours, particularly North Korea, which is also under sanctions.
President Mohammad Khatami of Iran arrived in Vienna on a trip intended to bolster ties with the European Union after President Bush's branding of Iran as part of an "axis of evil".
A new trial has been scheduled for Wednesday, just a few weeks before President Jiang Zemin travels for a summit meeting with President Bush at his ranch in Texas, where he hopes to bolster ties with the United States.
