Johannes Rau, (born Jan . 16 , 1931Wuppertal, Ger. died Jan . 27 2006, Berlin, Ger)., German politician who, as Germany's president (1999 2004), promoted closer ties with Israel and greater acceptance of foreign immigrants.
Under Abe, a nationalist whose father, Shintaro Abe, promoted closer ties with Moscow as foreign minister in the 1980s, Japan has refused to budge from its demand that all four islands be returned.
Both countries would like to promote closer ties in defence, energy, trade and more.
As a Chinese official for international affairs visited Seoul, Sun Yuxi, the Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing, said China wanted to promote closer ties.
With 500 having pursued so many more seemingly "exotic" and diverse funds that span the globe, from Vietnam to India, Canada can seem a bit more blasé, but Dave McClure sees the move as one that will really strengthen their North American presence of 500 overall and promote closer ties between Canada's startup scene and Silicon Valley.
In El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Honduras, the need to promote closer ties between health training and practice was emphasized.
The reason the leaders of the two countries sound so eager to promote close ties appears mostly to be that third parties are watching.
In both events, he promoted closer economic ties between the United States and Africa, especially through trade.
On Friday, Mr. Fox returned to a report in The Times of London that a not-for-profit company established by Mr. Werritty, Pagav Ltd., had received payments of about $230,000 from people with interests in promoting closer British ties with Israel, the United States and Sri Lanka.
Their mission will include the "development and regular updating of EU 'narrative' via key messages/lines to take, articles, op-eds, factsheets and infographics, with an emphasis on communicating the benefits of the EaP [Eastern Partnership]" — an EU initiative promoting closer trade and political ties with six former Soviet countries.
Sun, a medical scholar who became the first president of the new republic, envisioned a rejuvenated China guided by "science and democracy," and he promoted ever-closer ties with the West.
