The Islamic Republic of Iran is planning to construct a ceramic tiles plant with an annual production capacity of two million square meters in Uzbekistan, PressTV reported.

• November 3, 2012

A delegation of the Azerbaijani Parliament consisting of MPs Rovshan Rzayev, Aydin Abbasov, Fuad Muradov and Sadagat Valiyeva will visit Riga on Nov. 4 at the invitation of the head of the Azerbaijan-Latvia parliamentary friendship group Janis Reirs.

• November 3, 2012

A meeting with Chairman of Britain-Uzbekistan All-Party Parliamentary Group Lord John Waverley, who is on a visit to Tashkent, was held in the Foreign-Policy Committee of the Senate of Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan - the Upper House of the Uzbek Parliament on Friday.

• November 3, 2012

Pakistani Senior Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim and visiting Iranian Deputy Minister for Industries, Mines and Commerce, Abass Ghabadi will hold talks on barter trade on Friday (today), official sources said, Business Recorder reported.

• November 2, 2012

U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer is on foreign travel to Azerbaijan through November 5 to meet with government officials and civil society activists to promote women's empowerment throughout the country, official website of the U.S. Department of State reports.

• November 2, 2012

Georgian Agriculture Minister David Kirvalidze met with the EU ambassador to Georgia Philip Dimitrov. As the Agriculture Ministry told Trend, the meeting discussed plans and future strategy of the Georgian Agriculture Ministry.

• November 2, 2012

According to her, day by day Kyrgyz Parliament loses it control functions more and more. “The impression is that MPs stopped in and are afraid of moving after recent much publicized arrests of some deputies.

• November 1, 2012

Russia is planning to increase annual defence spending from its current level of 3 percent of GDP to 3.7 percent in 2015, which equates to more than 3 trillion roubles.

• November 1, 2012