But now, private attitudes seem to have been detached from official relations.

The two governments established official diplomatic relations in July 1990.

Over all those 16 years, as many of us can today recall, we had no official relations whatsoever with the Soviet regime.

The countries have had official relations since June 1954.

They established official diplomatic relations in 1986, at the initiative of the former.

From 1978 to 2008 there were no official relations between two countries.

Australia has official relations with a number of countries.

Jordan and Israel have had official relations since 1994, when their leaders signed a peace treaty.

"Do you know her personally, apart from your official relations?"

The absence of any protections granted by official relations had still remained.