Sentence examples for on rapprochement from inspiring English sources

Mr Ma cannot afford to be complacent and neither can China, which fears a strengthened DPP could put the brakes on rapprochement across the Taiwan Strait.

The SPD has, ever since its first chancellor in 1969, Willy Brandt, instead pursued Ostpolitik (Eastern policy), which focused more on rapprochement with the east, and especially with Russia.Now the two parties are instinctively taking up their old positions.

But, just as the Iranian government had taken at least three different public positions on the September 11th attacks, so it stood on rapprochement with the United States, support for the Palestinian rejectionists, and almost every other public issue: there are shadings and subtleties, conflicting statements and occasional outrages.

We have seen a very emotional beginning of rapprochement on the peninsula.

There are many reasons for the cautious words of rapprochement on both sides: about 81 million of them.

A meeting between Mr Lavrov and NATO officials did go ahead, and there were signs of rapprochement on Thursday when the two sides issued a joint statement calling for a free and fair re-run of the presidential ballot.Mr Putin is angry at being made to look foolish after throwing his lot in with a man who looks increasingly like a fall-guy.

McFaul, the architect of President Barack Obama's "reset" policy toward Russia and later the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, looks with longing on past periods of rapprochement.

Although no immediate comment was available from North Korean officials, Mr. Lim's visit appeared to place North Korea and South Korea back on the track of rapprochement, after more than year of limited contacts and scant cooperation.

Writing from Amman, Daoud Kuttab sees signs that the prospect of rapprochement with Iran on the nuclear issue is easing, not exacerbating, conflicts in the Middle East.

Experts say that a three-way relationship between North and South Korea and Japan -- including Japanese financial aid to the North -- is vital to rapprochement on the peninsula.

Strange as it may seem to propose industrial projects and economic incentives at a time when the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are controlled by two different parties, and when checkpoints and security barriers slow down the potential for rapprochement on a business basis, Savir believes in the power of peace building.