A senior member of the Armenian parliament slammed today Azerbaijan and Turkey for their  coordinated  efforts to demand the closure of the Armenian nuclear power plant. Speaking to journalists, Hrayr Karapetian, chairman of  a parliament committee  on defense and  national security issues form the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/Dashnaktsutyun,  said the ultimate goal of Baku and Ankara is to damage Armenia’s economic potential.

• April 5, 2011

Representatives of Ukraine and the European Union are due to meet in the EU headquarters city of Brussels for another round of negotiations toward reaching an association agreement between Ukraine and the EU.

• April 5, 2011

A reassuring word about the dangers posed to the U.S. and Europe by radiation from Japan came from an unlikely source Sunday _ the president of a Baltic Sea nation who, as a young Red Army medic, witnessed firsthand the horrors of the world's worst nuclear accident.

• April 4, 2011

During the consultations in Vilnius on 1 April, Lithuanian Deputy Foreign Minister Evaldas Ignatavicius and Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Titov discussed key bilateral issues, also the issues of interstate and inter-governmental treaties that are being drafted and the preparation for the meeting of the Lithuanian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission, reported BC the press service of the Foreign Ministry.

• April 4, 2011

Astana, April 04: Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev was re-elected in Sunday's presidential election with 95.5 percent of the votes counted, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced Monday.

• April 4, 2011

Japan's nuclear crisis will speed the elimination of nuclear power from some European countries and render many planned projects too risky, ultimately increasing Europe's dependence on gas.

• April 2, 2011

The first stage of a program to modernize Ukraine's gas transportation system with international participation will be launched in June, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko said.

• April 2, 2011

The Council of Senate of Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan (the Upper House of the parliament) adopted a resolution on the holding of elections of aksakals and their advisors to self governing bodies in May-June 2011.

• April 2, 2011