have relations

"I'm not going to attend the San Francisco one because we don't have relations with Peru," Lopez Obrador said, speaking at a regular government press conference.

"We have relations with all countries in the world and we invite everyone," Lopez Obrador said at a regular government press conference after noting that the presence of the Russian unit had sparked a "scandal."

They both claim sovereignty over each other’s territory and refuse to have relations with governments that recognize the other side.

They both claim sovereignty over each other’s territory and refuse to have relations with governments that recognize the other side.

The sparsely populated nations, whose territories cover vast areas of the Pacific, have relations with the United States governed by so-called Compacts of Free Association.