1.   Both hostile neighbours are blaming the other for the latest eruption of violence.

2.   Greece and Turkey remain hostile neighbours on account of a number of unresolved territorial disputes in the Aegean and the war fought over the divided island of Cyprus.

3.   He said any tampering with the treaty would need to be carefully considered as it had survived two previous wars between the hostile neighbours.

4.   It refuses to confirm or deny its nuclear potential but says it cannot sign the NPT while it still has hostile neighbours.

5.   Japan, Britain and the United States are sending missions to New Delhi and Islamabad as part of diplomatic effobPsato calm tensions between the hostile neighbours.

6.   Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiken Sugiura arrived in New Delhi from Islamabad Thursday as part of further diplomatic efforts to calm tensions between the hostile neighbours.

7.   Meanwhile, a Pakistani army spokesman sought to play down the intensity of skirmishes on the demarcation line that divides Kashmir between the mutually hostile neighbours.

8.   Relations between the hostile neighbours have been marred by mutual mistrust and both have expelled rival diplomats on similar charges in the past.

9.   Relations between the mutually hostile neighbours have become tense amid a bloody separatist campaign launched by Kashmiri militants in the Indian-administered zone.

10.   Relations between the mutually hostile neighbours remain tense as both claim ownership of the northern Himalayan state.