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ESC team completes Bulgarian TACAN effort, enhances NATO compatibility
An Electronic Systems Center team has completed a Foreign Military Sales effort in Bulgaria, adding new capabilities for this NATO-member nation and enhancing U.S. security interests in the region.
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Lithuania and Estonia see energy independence of Baltic States as priority
The Lithuanian President and the Estonian Prime Minister discussed the relations between Lithuania and Estonia, bilateral economic cooperation, emphasized the need for coordinated economic decisions and the aim to achieve energy independence of the Baltic States.
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Strong support for Iran's economy by China and Russia
The Russian -Iranian relationship lies very much in the development of international issues elsewhere in the world. At the moment, Russia and Iran have a mutual need to maintain their relationship and to play up its importance in order to protect the territorial status and exertinfluence with other neighbouring states.
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Russia: Iran closer to creating nuclear weapons
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday Iran was gaining the ability to build a nuclear bomb, the strongest criticism of Iran's nuclear program to emerge from the Kremlin under either Medvedev or his predecessor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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Japan Engages a Nuclear India
Japan, long critical of Indian nuclear policy, is discussing a civilian nuclear energy cooperation agreement that could be signed by the end of the year when the Indian prime minister visits Tokyo, Harsh V Pant comments for ISN Security Watch.
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Gazprom tries to get RWE on board gas pipeline
Russian gas behemoth Gazprom is trying to get German power company RWE to join the South Stream gas pipeline project, a press report said on Monday, raising the stakes for a rival European programme.
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N Korea postpones talks with US
North Korea postpones talks scheduled with the US-led United Nations Command about the sinking of a South Korean warship.
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External Relations Briefing: Russian-Jordanian Relations
 (59 Kb) Jordan has always been a moderate monarchy and, taking into account the role of the British Empire in the foundation of the Hashemite Kingdom, one of the most pro-Western regimes in the Arab East. Jordan’s well-established relations with Russia, which have become even closer and warmer during the last decade, might therefore seem surprising. However, in the Middle East, perhaps even more than in any geopolitical regions, neither generalizations nor stereotypes are able to reflect complex realities. Moscow and Amman have a number of reasons to preserve and cultivate their cooperation
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