France, Holland and Sweden froze political relations, barring contacts involving Chinese Government officials.

Iran and the US froze diplomatic relations in 1980 and had no direct diplomatic contact until May 2007.

The relationship reached a diplomatic low point when Venezuela temporarily froze diplomatic relations with the US for several months in 2008-2009.

Today, he called on the Government to freeze economic relations with China.

Six states have frozen or canceled relations with the SADR in the past, but later resumed them.

But Tokyo held out little hope of a quick solution to the territorial dispute that has frozen relations between the two countries.

Indeed, using these spy scandals as an excuse to freeze relations with Russia or China is illogical.

That is one of the political conclusions that we must draw from the grave decision of 14 Member States yesterday virtually to freeze relations with a partner.

More serious is the claim that it was misleading to say the EU had decided to freeze cultural relations with Cuba.

So we call on the Council and the Commission to freeze relations with Albania until new elections have been held in this country under international democratic rules.