Both hamlets have strong historic and administrative links with their neighbour and are joined to them by a specially designated Buffer Zone.

Jordan maintained administrative links to the West Bank even after Israel gained control of the territory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Liberating the occupied Palestinian land could be enhanced by dismantling the legal and administrative links.

In 1974 Jordan gave up claim to the West Bank, and in 1988 it severed all legal and administrative links with it.

For a long while the King cultivated religious and administrative links to the territory.

He said he was "dismantling the legal and administrative links between the two banks," but he announced no specific steps toward that end.

In a speech on Sunday night, the King said he was severing his administrative links with the territories but did not spell out the details.

Apart from a shared police force there are now no formal administrative links between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire.

It would be better to make these people declare their personal links with the media, as well as their parliamentary and administrative links to the European Parliament.

A lot of bits of reunification are already happening, not only people moving freely in both directions but administrative and political links going beyond those between friendly countries.