The European Union is interested in attracting Kazakh investments to purchase Eurobonds and other debt instruments of European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) backed by the guarantees of eurozone states, Kazinform reported.

• October 1, 2011

The Russian Federation’s ambassador to Belarus Alekhandr Surikov told reporters in the Belarusian capital Minsk that a draft Belarusian-Russian interstate agreement on the construction of a new 2,400 megawatt nuclear power plant for Belarus will be ready in October.

• October 1, 2011

A Russian-controlled company will soon start supplying 20 percent of the aviation fuel at the strategically vital U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan, and it could eventually increase that share, officials said

• September 28, 2011

The European Union (EU) and Azerbaijani Finance Ministry launched a Twinning project "Support to the State Financial Control Service to improve financial controls". The project was presented in Baku on Wednesday.

• September 28, 2011

In Japan's most aggressive move to promote exports of nuclear technology since the Fukushima Daiichi accident in March, a Tokyo-based utility consortium signed a deal with Vietnam on Wednesday to conduct a feasibility study for two new reactors.

• September 28, 2011

The next meeting of Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan intergovernmental commission will be held September 29 in Baku, the spokesman for Industry and Energy Ministry of Azerbaijan Azer Mensimli told Trend.

• September 24, 2011

The protocol on the completion of the bilateral negotiations between the United States and Kazakhstan on Astana's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) was signed on Wednesday by the two countries' governments.

• September 22, 2011

Chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC ) Wu Bangguo and Uzbekistan Oliy Majlis (Parliament) Senate chairman Ilqizar Sobirov signed a memorandum on cooperation between the two countries in Uzbekistan on Wednesday, Uzbekistan parliament reported.

• September 22, 2011