21.   Mexican government contacts with the United States often bypass the State Department, with Treasury, Justice and law enforcement officials working directly with their Mexican counterparts.

22.   North Korea shuns official government contact with South Korea, which it regards as a U.S. colony.

23.   No progress was made, and government contacts stalled this year amid tension between Washington and Pyongyang.

24.   North Korea responded by cutting off all government contact with Seoul.

25.   On Monday, the European Union banned high level government contacts with Burma and stopped issuing visas to senior Burmese military government officials.

26.   North Korea proposed to hold Cabinet-level meetings and two other inter-Korean government contacts in the North later this month, as scheduled.

27.   She told some people she worked for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service while others were led to believe that her success was based on cozy government contacts.

28.   The communist North responded by cutting off government contacts with South Korea.

29.   The conservative newspaper, which has good government contacts, said the Iranian and Israeli diplomats sit in separate rooms and do not talk directly to each other.

30.   The United States and North Korea have no diplomatic relations but the two countries have unofficial channels of government contact.