After leading the diplomatic and military effort to secure the Dayton agreement, the United States has continued to lead the effort to ensure its implementation.

Concurrently, tension between Syria and Phalange increased Israeli support for the Maronite group and led to direct Israeli-Syrian exchanges in April 1981, leading to American diplomatic intervention.

It is a leading partner in the campaign against terrorism, providing assistance in the military, diplomatic, and financial arenas.

* 1279 – A diplomatic party of the Yuan Dynasty sent by Kublai Khan to Japan is killed by Japan's regent Hōjō Tokimune, leading to a second invasion attempt by the Mongols in 1281.

* A Yuan diplomatic party sent by Kublai Khan to Japan is killed by Japan's regent Hōjō Tokimune, leading to a second invasion attempt by the Mongols in 1281.

In October 1941, the Communist Party and governmental organizations, diplomatic missions of foreign countries, leading cultural establishments and their staff were evacuated to the city.

Little public information exists, and it must be inferred from behind the scenes meetings between Mauritania and Israel in 1995 and 1996m said to be at the instigation of Mauritania's President Ould Taya ; the establishment of unofficial " interest sections " in the respective Spanish embassies in 1996 in the two capital cities, leading to ; the exchange of diplomatic representatives in each other's countries from 27 October 1999 ; that Mauritania had reversed its declaration by then.

Contemporaries report that he was quick to get angry and resort to violence, leading to frequent political and diplomatic confrontations.

Some leading party officials disagreed with Goebbels ’ s actions, fearing the diplomatic crisis it would provoke.

Events on the cricket pitch have occasionally even been elevated to diplomatic incidents in Australian history – as occurred in the infamous Bodyline controversy of the 1930s, in which an English team bowled in a physically intimidating way leading to accusations of unsportsmanlike conduct.

Although much of existing written history might be classified as diplomatic history-Thucydides, certainly, is among other things, highly concerned with the relations among states-the modern form of diplomatic history was codified in the 19th century by Leopold von Ranke, a the leading German historian of the 19th century.

Keegan also points to the Schlieffen Plan as a leading example of the separation between military war planning and political / diplomatic considerations which was one of the original causes of the war.

The ETIM is said to be allied with the Taliban, who have received funding from rogue elements in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ), leading to a potential diplomatic confrontation between Pakistan and China.

Most of his service with the 4th U. S. was in the Pacific Northwest, starting with a topographical survey mission to the Willamette Valley in 1855, during which he became involved with the Yakima War and Rogue River Wars, gaining experience in leading small combat teams, being wounded ( a bullet grazed his nose on March 28, 1857, at Middle Cascade, Oregon Territory ), and some of the diplomatic skills needed for negotiating with Indian tribes.

The sticker carries the UNITA symbol and the slogan ' Socialism-Negritude-Democracy-Non-Alignment ' As the war began to include both military and diplomatic components, Johns and leading U. S. conservatives urged Savimbi to make a ceasefire contingent on the MPLA's agreement to " free and fair elections.

* Raytheon is a leading member of the U. S. Global Leadership Coalition, a Washington D. C .- based coalition of over 400 major companies and NGOs that advocates for a larger International Affairs Budget, which funds American diplomatic, humanitarian, and development efforts abroad.

However, despite these efforts, in 1853, United States naval Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Tokyo Bay with his fleet of Black Ships and came ashore at Kurihama, in southern Yokosuka, leading to the opening of diplomatic and trade relations between Japan and the United States.

The People's Republic of China refuses to maintain diplomatic relations with any government which formally recognizes the Republic of China, leading to a complex political status of Taiwan ( see also one China policy and foreign relations of the Republic of China ).

Battles such as Gallipoli for Australia and New Zealand, and Vimy Ridge for Canada led to increased national pride and a greater reluctance to remain subordinate to Britain, leading to the growth of diplomatic autonomy in the 1920s.

The ruse was soon exposed to the international community, leading Japan to diplomatic isolation and its March 1933 withdrawal from the League of Nations.

Evatt joined the diplomatic councils of the allies during World War II, and in 1945 he played a leading role in the founding of the UN.

Shortly after the Shenzhou 5 flight in 2003, the Pacific nation of Kiribati established diplomatic ties with the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), leading the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) to cut off diplomatic ties under its One-China policy.

In the east the Empire was overrun by the Seljuk Turks ; from the north Bulgarians and Vlachs descended unchecked to ravage the plains of Macedonia and Thrace, and Kaloyan of Bulgaria annexed several important cities, while Alexios squandered the public treasure on his palaces and gardens and attempted to deal with the crisis through diplomatic means.

A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

Although the Holy See, as distinct from the Vatican City State, does not fulfil the long-established criteria in international law of statehood — having a permanent population, a defined territory, a stable government and the capacity to enter into relations with other states — its possession of full legal personality in international law is shown by the fact that it maintains diplomatic relations with 179 states, that it is a member-state in various intergovernmental international organizations, and that it is: " respected by the international community of sovereign States and treated as a subject of international law having the capacity to engage in diplomatic relations and to enter into binding agreements with one, several, or many states under international law that are largely geared to establish and preserving peace in the world.

He established diplomatic relations with most major countries and, following a 1927 tour of Europe and Turkey ( during which he noted the modernization and secularization advanced by Atatürk ), introduced several reforms intended to modernize Afghanistan.

Relations between the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) and Liberia have been broken and reestablished several times since February 17, 1977, when diplomatic relations between the PRC and Liberia were first formed.

Peru became the first of several countries to sever diplomatic relations with Tripoli on 22 February 2011, followed closely by African Union member state Botswana the following day.

Taiwan and Nauru had shared diplomatic ties for 22 years ; Taiwan has enjoyed diplomatic ties with several Pacific countries even in the face of the " One China policy " by Beijing.

Between 1499 and 1512 he carried out several diplomatic missions: to the court of Louis XII in France ; to the court of Ferdinand II of Aragón, in Spain ; in Germany ; and to the Papacy in Rome, in the Italian states.

During this year, Sosa accompanied President Fernandez of the Dominican Republic on several diplomatic trips including to the United States, Japan, and Taiwan.

* War on Terrorism ( 2001 – present ) – refers to several ideological, military, and diplomatic campaigns aimed at putting an end to international terrorism by preventing groups defined by the U. S. and its allies as terrorist ( largely Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas ) from posing a threat to the U. S. and its allies, and by putting an end to state sponsorship of terrorism.

** Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt, following a period of unrest partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt.

Though during most of the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE several regional powers competed relentlessly for hegemony, many developments occurred: there was new emphasis on grandiose architecture, new clothing fashions, vivid diplomatic correspondence on clay tablets, renewed economic exchanges, and the New Kingdom of Egypt played the role of the main superpower.

Italy later faced diplomatic isolation from several countries.

Molema had to use all his diplomatic skills on several occasions to prevent Boer incursion and settlement near Mafikeng.

During the history of Portugal between 1415 and 1578, Portugal explored the Atlantic Ocean, discovering several Atlantic archipelagos like the Azores, Madeira, or Cape Verde, explored the African coast as well as colonizing selected areas of Africa, discovered an eastern route to India that rounded the Cape of Good Hope, discovered Brazil, explored the Indian Ocean and established trading routes throughout most of southern Asia, and sent the first direct European maritime trade and diplomatic missions to China and Japan.

On his diplomatic mission in 1286, Edward had paid homage to the new king, Philip IV, but in 1294 Philip declared Gascony forfeit when Edward refused to appear before him in Paris to discuss the recent conflict between English, Gascon, and French sailors ( that had resulted in several French ships being captured, along with the sacking of the French port of La Rochelle ).

He was sent on several diplomatic missions on behalf of the Duke, and worked on several projects which likely entailed more than painting, such as his difficult journey to faraway Lisbon.

He held several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after Israel's War of Independence.

As there were rumours of Japanese torpedo boats in the North Sea, several Russian ships fired upon British fishing trawlers off Dogger Bank, causing the Royal Navy to shadow the Russian fleet until a diplomatic agreement was reached.

* Interest of the United States in the transfer of German populations from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and Austria, Foreign relations of the United States: diplomatic papers, Volume II ( 1945 ) pp. 1227 – 1327 ( Note: Page 1227 begins with a Czechoslovak document dated 23 November 1944, several months before Czechoslovakia was " liberated " by the Soviet Army.