The main goals of the joint-stock power utility Latvenergo in the four-year period from 2012 to 2015 include keeping its leading positions in the Baltics, diversification of energy sources and balanced development of electrical grids, the company's CEO Aris Zigurs said today at a conference on the development of Latvenergo in a deregulated market.

• November 8, 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

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

Ukraine will not place any restrictions on wheat exports in the near future as there is no grain deficit on the domestic market, an official from the Ukrainian Agriculture Ministry said here Wednesday.

• November 1, 2012

Pakistani Consul General to Mashhad Qazi Habiborrahman said on Sunday Paksitan is willing to enhance trade with Iran despite the western sanctions, IRNA reported.

• October 29, 2012

Iraq's Karbala Governor-General who is visiting the Holy City of Qom, Kamal ul-Dinn Majid al-Hor elaborated in a joint meeting with the officials and managers of the selected industrial companies and also selected exporters on his visit to Salafchagan zone, IRNA reported.

• October 29, 2012