1.   The visit was the first official contact between the Vatican and the Vietnamese government.

2.   Permanent official contacts were established in the same month with the Soviet Union and a Soviet ambassador to the Vatican was appointed.

3.   Although Pinochet reportedly had no official contacts with serving members of the Ecuadorian armed forces, he had visited a military social centre there and met retired officers.

4.   At present council policy states there can be no official contact between the authority and the South African government.

5.   And neither club has made official contact with the Cowboys, Jones said.

6.   As a result of the lack of official contact between the two governments, trade has languished and health and environmental problems along the border have reached dramatic levels.

7.   Beijing has supported a series of low-level official contacts with Taiwan politicians.

8.   Beijing has long encouraged closer official contacts with Taiwan, though few mainlanders are allowed to visit there.

9.   Blair emphasized that renewing official contact depended on an absence of IRA violence.