However, it also formally tied serfs to the estates on which they resided.
That may leave London as the only place not formally tied to the alliance.
Mr. Maduro and Ms. Flores were married on Monday after having resisted formally tying the knot for about two decades.
Though a smaller group is allied to South Korea, most of the 625,000 Korean residents of Japan are not formally tied to either group.
Negotiations between BP and Rosneft were formally tied up yesterday at a meeting at Mr Putin's personal residence in Moscow, after which the Prime Minister emerged to give his personal blessing to the deal.
Montenegro, despite the welcome it showed the thousands of refugees, and its opposition to the Yugoslav government in Belgrade, is still formally tied to the Yugoslav leadership, NATO's official enemies and, for Kosovo Albanians, their implacable foes.
But Tuesday's report from the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad), a network of 54 NGOs from 19 European countries, says many countries have reneged on their promises and at least 20% of all bilateral aid remains formally tied.
In 1986, as part of the so-called Compact of Free Association, which formally tied the country's foreign and defense policies to those of the United States, Washington made amends by paying $150 million in damages to the victims and establishing funds for people from the affected islands.
In Montenegro, which was never a wealthy region and has been further impoverished by 10 years of war and international sanctions that go with being formally tied to Mr. Milosevic, the immediate effects of the Serbian blockade are rising prices and falling production.
Jolie's revelation of her double mastectomy comes amid much frenzied speculation over whether the couple are preparing imminently to formally tie the knot.
