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Rapprochement with pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be going well since she was released from prison almost a year ago.

He said the Arabs also had to consider that a future U. S. president might seek rapprochement with Iran.

More preoccupying to the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, are the implications for her attempted rapprochement with India.

Similarly, the disasters have led to a rapprochement with Russia, with which relations have also been fraught over a territorial dispute.

But it would be wrong to under-estimate the significance of this rapprochement between the two great powers of east Asia.

But investments there had been hailed as a beacon for rapprochement across the last cold war frontier.

This was one of the core themes of the 2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures.

Secure in the short term, but facing a deteriorating economic outlook, he might be wise to seek a rapprochement with the "empire" .

For all that it was dreamy and disjointed, it had at its heart a rapprochement between Japan and China leading towards regional integration.

There has been a rapprochement with the Iraqi government and an effort to reach an accommodation with the Kurdish minority.

"There has been a spectacular conceptual rapprochement between Merkel and Sarkozy, " insists a French official.

Religious conflict, not rapprochement, seems to be the aim of some hot heads.

If there is no political reform in China, he appears to be saying, then rapprochement with Taiwan can only go so far.

Deloitte's best hope for getting out of its bind lies in a rapprochement between policymakers.

When you deal with rapprochement and reconciliation, the idea of political power is the power of the strength to admit to atrocities.

Jolie's father Jon Voight appeared in Croft, and during filming there was a brief rapprochement between father and daughter.

If Mr. Obama imposes new sanctions on Syria, it will mark a break from his initial efforts of seeking rapprochement with Mr. Assad.

Over the last 40 years, China has gained far more than the United States from the Sino-American strategic rapprochement.

President Lech Kaczynski's testament must be fulfilled through rapprochement and reconciliation ( with Russia ).

Differences between the social systems of states shall not be an obstacle to their rapprochement and cooperation.

"There is now a small window for rapprochement, " said Mark Leonard, executive director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

History wars, still far from resolved, point to the limits of rapprochement. So too do maritime disputes over territory.

Getting into the spirit of things and, perhaps, in a bid to aid national rapprochement, he gamely donned a pink turban (see photo below).

Rapprochement with the neighbours, however, need not come at the cost of worsening ties with America.

Mr Brown has inherited the British-Libyan rapprochement engineered by Tony Blair.

Many analysts say that a victory by reformist-minded Mir Hossein Mousavi would have made rapprochement between Washington and Tehran easier.

In a remarkable irony, evidence of the Sino-Japanese rapprochement is widely apparent even in Nanjing.

Rapprochement with China, however vexing for the pro-independence camp, could open up agreements with the US, Japan and Euroland.

The policy of free movement of students is part of the ruling nationalist Kuomintang party's rapprochement with China.

He still has to try to appease the regional Sunni community (Turkey included) by working towards rapprochement with Iraq's Sunnis.

The first acts were finally hammered out by the western countries led by France to explore the possibilities of rapprochement with China.

But the prospects for a Palestinian rapprochement still look far more remote than the launch of another flotilla.

The gradual rapprochement between these two nations, long traditional enemies, cheered all Europeans.

The relationship harmony and rapprochement among people is core of socialist construction harmony.

His essay demonstrates the possibility of the " rapprochement" between psychology and the problem of the primitive mind.

Saad Hariri, Lebanon's prime minister, highlighted a rapprochement with Syria under President Bashar Assad.

It now appears clear that the setback will not upset the rapprochement achieved by Tokyo and Beijing leaders since late 2006.

The event symbolises a budding rapprochement between ordinary Turks and Armenians.

He did not want to torpedo Turkish-Armenian rapprochement by using the G-word.

Russia's rapprochement is fragile since it hinges on an idea of modernisation that is unlikely to succeed without liberalisation.

The rapprochement partly reflects Mr Bush's pressing need for allies in Europe.

Nevertheless, the more I'm involved in digital media projects, the more I'm convinced that both worlds need a rapprochement.

Now even Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, advocates a rapprochement with Russia.

Mr Roh was famed abroad for his attempts to build a rapprochement with communist North Korea.

The rapprochement worries many in a region once dominated by Moscow.

The Franco-German rapprochement that inspired the founding fathers is taken for granted.

The core content of "Rapprochement" strategy is a special, strategic relation of Sino-US.

The Kaczynskis' scepticism about rapprochement with Germany and Russia chimed with some Poles' deep historical fears.

This leads us to a third general issue: the means by which rapprochement with China is being pursued.

Allies of Mr Strauss-Kahn say the veteran French politician has the diplomatic skills to broker a rapprochement.

What type of rapprochement can China and Japan build through soft power mechanisms?

a rapprochement between warring states, faction, ect.

Their personal rapprochement could lead to political progress, commentators say.

The DPP's strong showing suggests that Taiwan's support for rapprochement is limited.

At last there are signs of a rapprochement between our two countries.

But the rapprochement didn't survive the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests that hit the country amid the so-called Arab spring.

In the early 1970s, the focus was on rapprochement.

Mr Fukuda praised a recent Sino-Japanese rapprochement.

Many, including Indian politicians of all stripes, struggle to imagine any rapprochement with their old enemy.

Yet, while the trading ties flourish, a broader rapprochement remains distant.

The rapprochement between France and Italy will lead to conclusion of peace.

Finally, there is Turkey, which for many years got on badly with Syria, but which more recently managed a rapprochement.

Rapprochement with Syria has also allowed Turkey to play a bigger regional role.

We're in a period of rapprochement now which I hope will last until I die.

Politically, I seek rapprochement with mainland China so that economically we can have better relations with them.

Some think his departure from the national stage could open the way for a rapprochement between Germany's two parties of the left.

But Mr Tusk's biggest diplomatic achievement since taking office has been to steer Poland towards a rapprochement with Russia.

League for Jewish-Arab Rapprochement and Cooperation;

objective support was positively related to rapprochement in the family, condition of habitation and satisfaction of living;