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US presidents have often been given a frosty reception at regional gatherings, but Obama won warm plaudits at this year's Summit of the Americas for his moves towards rapprochement, as well as a glowing personal endorsement by Castro.
Thus, the hard-liners are trying to create a new crisis with the U.S. in order to prevent any rapprochement, as well as distract attention from their factional fighting.
She "prefers a cautious rapprochement," as Sang-hun reported.
But in comments this week, she portrayed the rapprochement as one born of shared policy interests, not calculated politics.
Iran has made hostility to America a premise of its 1979 revolution: it sees rapprochement as tantamount to renouncing fundamental principles.
Not that anyone holds out much hope for a rapprochement as Venus, 28, and Serena, 27, approach the twilight of their careers.
"There can be no rapprochement with Iraq as long as our sons and our prisoners of war are there," said Nasser al-Sanaa, a member of the Kuwaiti Parliament, speaking on Al Jazeera television.
Mr. Roh is widely viewed as supporting Mr. Kim's efforts at rapprochement with North Korea as well as economic reform.
The chemistry between them is a major part of the film's appeal, and Rivette delicately tracks their stormy fights and hesitant rapprochements as they spend most of the film wandering around the French countryside.
"We are troubled by some of the recent actions coming out of Egypt," said one senior Israeli official, citing a "rapprochement between Iran and Egypt" as well as "an upgrading of the relationship between Egypt and Hamas".
Another issue for Salman will be managing Saudi relations with the US, the source of disappointment in Riyadh and impetuous moves by Abdullah in the last year after Obama sought to negotiate a nuclear deal and a wider rapprochement with Iran as well as failing to act militarily against the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, whose overthrow the Saudis are still seeking.
