Such zones were expected also 'to assist the spread of political, economic, scientific, cultural and other contacts' between states.

The rules banned economic contacts not only with Israel but also with companies and banks doing business there.

We do not wish to be cut off from cultural and economic contacts with other worlds.

The President said he acted because "economic contacts are the best way to keep the economic reforms going forward."

The two countries have active trade and economic contacts, particularly in the oil and gas sector.

More likely, increased economic contacts with the West would increase pressure for democratic political reform.

Since then, there has been a steady stream of high-level diplomatic, economic and military contacts.

A. It says that economic contacts are the best way to keep the economic reforms going forward.

It says that the more economic contacts we have with China, the more they are going to see the fruits of free market economies.

Europe's economic contacts with the wider world were multiplying, much as Britain's had been doing for years.