n. The state or condition of having equally close relationships with multiple people or organizations, particularly as a negotiator working with adversarial groups.
2014
Detractors say in the last three assembly polls Rio beat Congress raising the Naga question, but failed to push Delhi for a solution. In 2003, he led NPF to victory. He had pledged to work for a solution to Naga insurgency and coined the term "equicloseness" to describe his relations with rebel factions.
2011
The traditional Italian line, upheld over time by leading politicians such as Enrico Mattei, Amintore Fanfani, Aldo Moro, Giulio Andreotti, Bettino Craxi, and Massimo D’Alema, was characterized by a decidedly pro-Arab and pro-Palestinian stance, albeit under the cover of the "equidistance" formula (recently reinterpreted by D’Alema as "equicloseness").
1995 (earliest)
Ljubisa Georgievski, the leader of {he largest Macedonian nationalist party (VMRO-DPNME), opposed the Prime Minister's principle of equidistance ; preferring "equicloseness" to the four neighbors as the cornerstone of foreign policy.