41. Lawmakers ratified Friday a long-delayed friendship treaty with Ukraine after the Russian government warned that rejection would push Kiev toward closer links with NATO. 42. Last year, Horn signed the first friendship treaty with Romania. 43. Last year, Hungarian Premier Gyula Horn signed the first friendship treaty with Romania. 44. Officials from Romania and Uzbekistan signed a friendship treaty Thursday and agreed to protect investments between the two countries. 45. President Zhelyu Zhelev and his Lithuanian counterpart, Algirdas Brazauskas, signed a friendship treaty on Wednesday and agreed both their countries should join NATO. 46. Romania has a large Hungarian minority and recently signed a friendship treaty with Budapest. 47. Romania signed a friendship treaty with longtime foe Hungary last year. 48. Russia has decided to revise its decades-old friendship treaty with North Korea in a move likely to further strain their relations, reports said Monday. 49. Russia has proposed signing a new friendship treaty with North Korea to replace the existing one that features a bilateral military obligation, Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday. 50. Russian and Chinese presidents sign friendship treaty, the ITAR-Tass news agency says. |
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