Russian President Vladimir Putin has started a visit to Kazakhstan, where he is due to meet with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbaev and attend a forum on interregional cooperation in the northeastern Kazakh city of Pavlodar.

• September 19, 2012

EU foreign affairs representative Catherine Ashton is to hold talks with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, in a bid to end the stand-off over the Iranian nuclear programme.

• September 18, 2012

South Korea's top nuclear envoy left for Washington on Tuesday for talks on North Korean nuclear issues, amid reports of progress in the North's light-water reactor project that experts say may help expand the North's nuclear weapons capacity.

• September 18, 2012

Uzbek President Islam Karimov will make a state visit to South Korea this week for talks with President Lee Myung-bak about boosting economic cooperation between the two countries, the presidential office said Tuesday.

• September 18, 2012

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold further talks with Iran to allay international concern over its disputed nuclear program, despite the lack of cooperation from Tehran so far, the UN watchdog's chief said on Monday.

• September 17, 2012

The European Commission is holding intensive talks with Russia and expects to reach a compromise on a legal dispute between the bloc and its biggest gas provider, while avoiding disruption to energy supplies, the bloc's energy commissioner said on Monday.

• September 17, 2012

When people discuss the international dimension of the North Korean issue, Russia is always bound to feature prominently. Indeed, Russia is a great power, a member of the Group of Eight, and a neighbor of North Korea. It is usually assumed as well that Russia has numerous strategic interests in the area going back decades, even centuries.

• September 17, 2012

ISSUE #35
09/10/2012
The association agreement with Ukraine can be signed only if Kiev respects European values, President of the EU Commission Jose Manuel Barroso said on 4 September 2012. READ MORE

• September 17, 2012