The phrase "brother countries" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe two or more countries that have a strong bond or close relationship with each other. Example: "The two brother countries, France and Germany, have a long history of cultural exchange and cooperation."
Says Mr Uribe: "Our policy is to tackle our problem of drug trafficking and narcoterrorism, but not to enter wars, less still with brother countries.
With Sweden having failed to better Scotland and Austria in the qualifiers, my enduring memories of WC98 are of the exploits of our Scandinavian brother countries.
Instead of glory he found "maimed bodies" and "destruction" which left him to question "why two brother countries like Bolivia and Paraguay were massacring each other", and as a consequence Roa Bastos became a pacifist.
But we did it for a brother country".
"And the next day we say Pakistan is our brother country".
"But Afghanistan is our brother country and we can never betray them".
The suggestion was met here with bland declarations of respect for Venezuela as a "brother country".
Among the eclectic collection of protest signs around Sol was one that read: "Iceland is a brother country".
Last fall, as she prepared to return to Pakistan from her second exile, Bhutto received an intelligence report from the government of a "brother country," as she put it to me.
"With the commitment of never attacking a brother country again and by asking forgiveness, we can consider this very serious incident resolved," said President Rafael Correa of Ecuador, after shaking hands with Colombia's president, Álvaro Uribe.
At the launch of the 2016 event, set to take place in London, Glasgow and Dublin next March, an audience member grabs a microphone to say icily: "This heavy brother country you get now, it's far too loud.
