However, Ukraine retains tight military relations with Russia, mostly inherited from the common Soviet history.

At the same time he managed to retain diplomatic relations with Córdoba, which had increasingly lost control of its northern provinces.

Officially neutral, the Vatican wished to retain good relations with the Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation.

China became almost totally cut off from the outside world in the late 1960s and only retained diplomatic relations with a few countries.

Tonga retains cordial relations with the United States.

However, he retained friendly relations with them, sending them numerous letters from Treviso, where he obtained another job.

Even after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the countries retained active diplomatic relations.

The three were to retain close and cordial personal relations throughout their lives, though each differed from the other radically in Torah weltanschauung (hashkafa).

However, despite the split, the two houses still retain close relations.

The two countries retained close relations, with Australia supplying development aid.