The Palestinian leadership has said it will cease its contacts with the U.S. if it proceeds, with President Mahmoud Abbas saying such a move would "destroy the peace process".
The Foreign Office said that in all its contacts with Libyan officials, it had made it clear that "Gaddafi has to go".
It was by using its contacts with these leaders that Iran helped Washington defeat the Taliban in 2001.
North Korea would like to encourage as much distance as possible between Washington and Seoul, and it has lately stepped up its contacts with South Korea, after months of very little contact.
The role of the White House staff in pressuring the FBI to launch an investigation had been heavily criticized; on May 28 , 1993 the FBI issued a report saying it had done nothing wrong in its contacts with the White House.
The extended conformation of Scc21 181 clearly depends on its contacts with the surrounding Scc4; it is likely to be unstructured in the absence of its partner.
Last month, the ELN broke off its contacts with the government, saying that it was the army's real target.
This view did not prevail until the Iraq war and its aftermath, many officials say, when Arab and European supporters of the war took the same view and the installation of Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister made it possible for the United States to resume its contacts with Palestinian leaders.
And while he insisted Sinn Fein would not walk away from the peace process, some observers have speculated that the IRA could break off its contacts with General de Chastelain as it did in the wake of the suspension of Stormont in February 2000 by the then Northern Ireland secretary, Peter Mandelson.
The outcome seemed likely to deepen suspicions among Iran's critics that Tehran is using its contacts with outsiders to buy time as it continues nuclear enrichment efforts and possibly conceals evidence sought by international inspectors.
And, on the basis of its contacts with the present British Government, has it formulated any initiative for breaking the deadlock to which an outcome of this kind would give rise?
