Indian and Pakistani officials have offered optimistic statements about the nations' relations.
Her magazine publishes research from scientists around the world regardless of their nations' relations with Cuba.
Beijing's pursuit of Japanese suspects threatened to complicate the two nations' relations further.
Mr. Putin, who met with Mr. Bush last weekend at the summit meeting of industrial nations in Genoa, Italy, expressed hope that the talks would imbue the two nations' relations "with new content free from the problems inherited from the past".
George added that he sees this as a small victory in the grand scheme of things and believes there is much more work to do regarding indigenous representation and nation-to-nation relations.
"The countries that are now part of the global south have historical relations to Western nations, relations that are fraught with questions of colonial power and imperialism and formal agreements that may or may not have served the countries' long-term needs," she said.
Senior Chinese leaders conveyed a heightened sense of alarm on Thursday about their nation's relations with Taiwan, and they strongly warned the United States national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that continued American sales of high-tech weapons to Taiwan would increase the chances of conflict, a Bush administration official said.
If this brutal project is carried out, it will be nothing less than the first openly totalitarian act in the history of this nation's relations with other nations, & one of the few such acts in any nation's history.
The most prominent absentee will be Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the head of a one-time brotherly nation whose relations with Russia have soured following the Crimean annexation and the conflict in Ukraine.
Across the nation, partisan relations in statehouses where Republicans made significant gains last fall have varied widely, and in many cases there are no signs of softening messages — or even the need for such a thing.
