Others suggested North Korea would try to improve relations ahead of a historic Party Congress scheduled for May next year.
There is a case for a breathing-space in EU-Turkish relations ahead of Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections later this year.
Last week the chancellor met Chinese officials in London, including ambassador Liu Xiaoming, for talks about future trade relations ahead of the G20 finance ministers' meeting in Chengdu later this month.
It could mean freedom for the so-called "Arctic 30", a group of Greenpeace activists jailed for a protest on a Gazprom oil drill in the Arctic sea, in a move which many see as a bid to smooth over international relations ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The release of 11 political prisoners, the temporary lifting of government filters on social networking sites, and the warming of Iran-US relations ahead of next week's UN general assembly have brought new hope of ending Iran's international isolation and improving the lives of ordianry citizens.
It would be too strong to say that the mood at the heart of the German government is one of dismay at Britain's determination to renegotiate its relations ahead of a British referendum on membership in 2017 if the Conservatives are still in power in Westminster then.
It's thoughtful and moving and works because both David Wilsons are decent, genuine people who seem not only to really want to move the state of race relations ahead in this country, but to be evidence that it's already underway.
where is the relation-ahead parameter that is related to the segmental NSNR and.
If the ECB wants popular support for its mandated policies, it has a huge public-relations task ahead of it.
Ms Tolokonnikova's father Andrei said on Thursday that he too considered the amnesty to be little more than a public relations move ahead of the Olympics.
The gift is a move taken straight out of a Silicon Valley public-relations playbook, ahead of Alibaba's expected initial public offering this year, which could value the company at $150 billion.
