Nowadays the US is the kingdom's main strategic ally, but relations with Britain remain strong.
President Correa, a strategic ally of Hugo Chavez, was reported having been kidnapped by the police.
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The US-Israel alliance's central weakness was US's perception of Saudi Arabia as its strategic ally.
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Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was never a strategic ally to Israel the way that Turkey was before Erdogan.
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Montenegro officially gained its independence in 2006, bringing it closer to Western democracies who see Mr Djukanovic as a key strategic ally.
Uzbekistan had become an important strategic ally in the "war on terror".
America sees Turkey as a key strategic ally, especially given the situation in Iraq, and sees EU membership as a way of reinforcing the country's links with the West.
The Obama administration and the US foreign policy establishment that supports it must pay a price for seeking to undermine the elected government of the US's most important strategic ally in the region.
Mr Blackman described the UAE as a "key strategic ally" and said that UK arms including fighter aircraft should be exported to the UAE so that it can be be "defended properly" in the light of "tensions around the region with Iran".
Yet when unlike 25 years ago, last summer the Olmert government led Israel to defeat in Lebanon, it weakened the standing of administration officials who view Israel as a strategic ally and oppose the Saudis, while strengthening Israel's Baker-inspired foes who view Israel as a strategic liability.
It would imperil the security of a key regional ally and vital strategic asset.
Yet China's strategic interests in having an ally on its southern border haven't changed.
Australia places its security not only on its own self-reliant military forces, but on the strategic underpinnings provided by its most important ally, the United States.
He hopes that the report will provide a chance of reconciliation in this tiny but strategic Gulf state that is a Western ally and home to the American navy's Fifth Fleet.
Yet, since checking Soviet expansionism and not securing Israel was the US's primary strategic aim, and since the US perceived Saudi Arabia as an ally against Soviet expansionism, the Reagan administration pushed the sale forward against Israel's strenuous objections.
This is particularly true insofar as such a decision would likely have very serious repercussions for the United States, for its most important ally in the Middle East, Israel, and for the strategic relationship between them.
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