"Both nations now feel that the downturn in relations has gone too far, and has to be stopped before there's a real crisis".
"The development of our relations has gone through tempests and twists and turns," he said, "but the foundation of our friendship is unshakeable just like Mount Tai and Mount Fuji".
"Egypt-Israel relations have gone through three phases," he explained.
Nobody expected the process to be quick: at the earliest, Turkey will not join for another ten years.Even so, since October 2005 relations have gone downhill fast.
One cabinet member suggested that a neighborhood cleanup drive, intended to soothe perennially tense community relations, had gone so well they might do them more often.
But since then, relations have gone fairly smoothly with those employees, and Yale reached a new contract with them in June.
Although Iraqi-Jordanian relations have gone through rocky times since the Gulf war, Iraq for half a century was Jordan's traditional market.
He said that in the past four decades China-US relations had gone through "wind and rain" and reaped huge benefits from co-operation.
Sino-Russian relations have gone from strength to strength since the collapse of the Soviet Union; until then, the 4,000-mile 4,000-mile borderhadworld's most heavily armed, with 1.5m troops massed along it, beened by nuclear weapons.
Financial Times Deutschland, a German daily, calls the dispute "The German-French Ice Age".Yet it is too soon to conclude that Franco-German relations have gone into the deep freeze.
