He says there will be relief in France, where there were fears the country's image would be tarnished.
"Joerg Haider resigns as FPO chairman so as not to continue harming the country's image, " says Madrid's ABC.
There are two ways a country's image can change quickly for the better.
And just one oversight or error has the capacity to destroy a host city's reputation and damage a country's image.
They are urging Thais to be a little less tolerant than the country's image as a magnet for night-clubbers and sun-seekers might suggest.
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Mr Khan also urged the Bangladeshi authorities to take immediate steps to tackle the wider issue of corruption to improve the country's image.
Pakistan's opposition says that she is being prevented from travelling abroad because the government believes any such visit would hurt the country's image.
"Change your decision and come back to uphold cricket and the country's image, " former Bangladesh captain Aminul Islam, a leader of the association, urged.
They intend to push Britain's bid for the 2006 World Cup and its presence on the Internet, to try to sharpen the country's image.
It has launched a media campaign to repair the country's image.
Ben Kirkland, a senior consultant with KHP Consulting and who helped organize the forum, said Formula One could have a "massive impact" on a country's image.
Qatar's prime minister, Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, sought to downplay his country's image as the chief Arab patron for the opposition and dispel worries that it seeks to dominate the scene.
With his "Kung Fu Panda" movies, Jeffrey Katzenberg offered American audiences a cuddly Chinese icon to love, and won the hearts of China's cultural czars, who are eager to soften the country's image in the world.
But Mr Laar, a talkative man in a taciturn nation, sometimes seems better at burnishing his country's image to foreigners than at connecting with his own people, many of whom think of him as glib, even slippery.
Mr McGuinness said the country's good image abroad for producing top-class meat was being damaged and that was unacceptable.
Under his leadership the country has shed its image as the sick man of Asia and has joined the ranks of the tiger economies: the economy grew by almost 6% last year.
"What GE is doing on the Hudson and most of its PCB and Superfund sites around the country completely contradicts the image Immelt is trying to foist on the public, " says Alex F.
"You can't change the image of a country by running advertising campaigns, " Anholt said.
To borrow an image from the country's other favorite pastime, over the next quarter century, Spanish soccer transformed from a bull into a matador.
Much like his peers in the Middle East, the Prince has been applying his wife as a public relations tool to project a more modern image of his country to the West.
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This debate has crystallized around the defensive midfielder Nigel de Jong, whose chest-high tackle on Spain's Xabi Alonso in South Africa was the iconic image of the country's World Cup final defeat.
Miners working the harsh terrain of the Atacama are part of the national self-image in a country that thinks of itself as having snatched prosperity from adversity, whether earthquakes or mining accidents.
The British government has not yet issued a response, but Merkel's plan is unlikely to go down well with the new head of the Treasury, Alistair Darling, who will be keen to protect the country's investment friendly image.
"Negative public communication, aimed at accessing resources or any other purpose, does not help the image of the country nor does it in any case reflect the true state of affairs, " a spokesman for President Thabo Mbeki's cabinet said in response to Zille's statement.
And can rail travel in this country ever recover from that tarnished image that it seems to have at the moment?
As president, Chavez cultivated an image as a protector of the country's marginalized, and his followers worshiped him with fervor.
Polishing China's global image is a priority for a country that craves the international respect it feels it deserves as the world's second largest economy.
Mr Meier said he found the "overheated" reaction from the English media and fans hard to reconcile with the image he used to have of the country.
Meanwhile, the bank has continued to attract more depositors in Spain, as it benefits from an image of relative stability compared with the country's many deeply troubled regional savings banks.
Dolly's dedication to her image has helped push the small town country girl up the ranks from gifted singer and songwriter to international icon complete with her own Dolly-branded theme park.
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