ISSUE # 10
03/25/2013
On 21 March 2013, the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, Jan Tombinski, said that the signing of the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU would largely depend on the conclusions to be made by European Parliament ex-President Pat Cox and Polish ex-President Aleksander Kwasniewski upon completion of their mission. READ MORE

• March 28, 2013

Today in Astana, Kazakhstan's Defence Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov met with the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the NATO for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai and a new NATO officer on interaction with Central Asia Alexander Vinnikov, the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Kazakhstan informed Trend.

• March 27, 2013

Ukraine and Russia will continue to search for a mutually acceptable solution for the establishment of a consortium to manage the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS), Ukraine’s Ambassador to Russia Volodymyr Yelchenko has said.

• March 27, 2013

President Vladimir Putin is expected to discuss ways to broaden bilateral ties and cooperation in the nuclear energy sector with South African President Jacob Zuma during his visit to Durban.

• March 26, 2013

Gazprom has confirmed its interest in buying a combined cycle generation plants in Europe despite competition from cheap coal.

• March 26, 2013

Gazprom has confirmed its interest in buying a combined cycle generation plants in Europe despite competition from cheap coal.

• March 25, 2013

Japan and the United States have started talks on military plans in case of armed conflict over a group of East China Sea Islets claimed by Tokyo and Beijing, Japanese media said on Thursday, prompting China to complain of "outside pressure."

• March 22, 2013

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Iran will destroy the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if it comes under attack by the Jewish state.

• March 22, 2013