Tycoons who had grown rich under the Nationalists had an incentive to seek warm ties with the new party.
Nazarbayev, a former steelworker who has warm ties with Russia, has overseen market reforms and attracted massive foreign investment.
Banners hanging across the square condemned Mr. Suleiman for his warm ties with Israel, some showing a Star of David stamped across his face.
Yet his sway in foreign affairs is still strong, as evidenced by his historic move to warm ties with Cuba and themomentous nuclear deal he brokered with Iran.
"Peru has changed, so we politicians must also change," he said, adding that he would seek to maintain warm ties with the United States.
If this analysis is right, India's internal politics will discourage warm ties with Sri Lanka until at least 2014 and probably beyond.
He hopes for warm ties with the West, and aspires to recover his pulpit in the mosque from which the colonel expelled him.
Russia's warm ties with Venezuela are also opening the way for it to improve relations with a handful of other countries in Latin America, notably Bolivia.
Belarus, which has 10 million people, is the only former Soviet bloc nation to Russia's west that maintains warm ties with the Kremlin.
A potent political fund-raiser, Mr. Velella runs the Bronx Republican Party while maintaining warm ties to the Bronx Democratic Party, which occasionally has even endorsed him.
Leviev soon established warm ties with the Angolan president, José Eduardo Dos Santos, who speaks fluent Russian from his days as an engineering student in the U.S.S.R.
