Sentence examples for first official contact from inspiring English sources

Page A11 GEORGIANS MEET RUSSIAN OFFICIAL Russia and Georgia met in the first official contact between the countries since war broke out in South Ossetia.

The Rev. Donald J. Harrington, the St . Johns president, and a board of trustees member, James Riley, interviewed Doherty on Thursday, the first official contact the university had made with a potential candidate.

It was their first official contact with the outside world.

It was their first official contact with the Brazilian government.

The meeting was Brazil's first official contact with an isolated Amazonian tribe in 20 years.

As the first official contact with such a tribe since 1996, the event was out of the ordinary.

So, in all probability, the long-awaited direct talks between the United States and North Korea — the first official contacts since the second nuclear test in May — are going to start in the near future.

Britain and China yesterday agreed to resume talks on transferring Hong Kong sovereignty to Beijing in 1997, after the first official contacts between the two countries since the massacre in Tiananmen Square in June.

MOSCOW — A delegation of the Georgian Orthodox Church met in Moscow on Friday with the Russian deputy foreign minister, Grigory Karasin, in the first official contacts between the countries since war broke out in the breakaway region of South Ossetia in August.

Cameron's meeting with Putin will be the first official Russian contact with Britain since an unproductive bilateral meeting with Tony Blair during a G8 summit in 2007.

He established the pro-Pakistan policy in the India-Pakistan war of late 1971, helped negotiate the SALT I arms agreement with the Soviet Union (signed 1972), and developed a rapprochement between the United States and the People's Republic of China (1972), the first official U.S. contact with that nation since the Chinese Communists had come to power.