On Feb. 3, 1917, before a joint session of Congress, President Woodrow Wilson announced that the United States had broken off diplomatic relations with Germany, after that nation had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
A rift developed between Poland and the Soviet Union, an increasingly important ally for the West, particularly after the revelation of the Katyn massacre in 1943 (on 13 April), followed by the breaking-off of diplomatic relations with Poland by the Soviets (on 21 April).
He said that he looked forward to his first meeting, on Thursday, with President Clinton's Balkan adviser, James C. O'Brien, and other senior American officials and that he was eager to begin a new, more balanced relationship with Washington, including a rapid re-establishment of diplomatic relations broken with the NATO bombing war last year.
In 1994, Gabriel García Márquez played a key role in the restoration of diplomatic relations between Colombia and Cuba, relations that had been broken off in 1981.
In the latter role he was responsible for negotiating Colombia's resumption of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union after a 20-year break.
Disconnection of diplomatic relations between the US and some EU countries.
Then the news [of the resumption of diplomatic relations] happened.
He supported the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and the Soviet Union, which had been severed after the Soviet pact with Germany and the 1939 invasion of Poland — however, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin broke off Soviet-Polish diplomatic relations in April 1943 following Sikorski's request that the International Red Cross investigate the Katyń Forest massacre.
Fragments of texts by revolutionary leaders, guerrillas, workers and students are sung, shouted and otherwise intoned, countered by taped voices that offer militaristic jargon — "Provocative breaking off diplomatic relations," "Declaration of limited nuclear war" — from a 1965 article in Fortune magazine.
