On the European side, engineering a new spirit of détente will be tough.

It is difficult to know where this uneasy transatlantic détente of 2008 will lead.

In that connection, we welcome the actions undertaken by the coalition Government and the local authorities in the framework of the process of détente and of improvement in the socio economic situation of the inhabitants of Kosovo.

the High Contracting Parties remain committed to the search for the most effective ways of establishing legally binding rules with a real prospect of general recognition, so that progress can be made on the basis of consensus towards the noble goal of general and complete disarmament.

Following the political breakthrough in the May 2004 elections, with the emergence and immediate success of AE, the composition of the new New Caledonian Government grew highly complex.

The old deadlock on security issues is relaxing, and the Japanese public, recognizing the changed international environment, mostly embraces the Self Defense Forces' deployment in pursuit of international and regional responsibilities.

By contrast, the LTRO allows Italian and Spanish banks to engage in a very profitable and practically riskless arbitrage, but has kept government bonds hovering on the edge of a precipice although the last few days brought some relief.

His was the age of Ostpolitik and détente, of the first global oil crisis, of economic recession, stagflation, and the return to Europe of mass unemployment. His generation confronted the scourge of domestic terrorism and witnessed revolution in Iran, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the rise of Solidarity in Poland.

As the Soviet Union continued to maintain tight control over its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, the Cold War gave way to Détente and a more complicated pattern of international relations in the 1970s in which the world was no longer clearly split into two clearly opposed blocs.