China congratulated on Saturday the Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev for his election as president of the ruling United Russia Party, ratifying willingness to work to expand the links between the two countries.

• May 26, 2012

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia as part of an eight-day trip to countries in northern Europe, the Caucasus and Turkey, which she is due to start on May 31.

• May 26, 2012

Iran has played down a United Nations report that said Iranian nuclear scientists had enriched uranium to a higher-than-expected level, state media reported on Saturday.

• May 26, 2012

Azerbaijani company is interested in the development of Kyrgyz oil and nonferrous metal fields, 24.kg reported.

• May 25, 2012

Iran and world powers will meet in Moscow next month for more talks to try solve a longstanding dispute about Iran's nuclear energy programme, Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign-policy chief, has said.

• May 25, 2012

Kazakh Ambassador Galymzhan Koishybayev met with Lithuanian MPs - representatives of "Kazakhstan's Friendship Group" in Seimas, the Kazakh MFA's press service said.

• May 25, 2012

China’s Commerce Ministry issued a ruling Thursday that U.S. government support for six renewable energy projects violated free-trade rules, the latest volley in a widening conflict over clean power.

• May 24, 2012

Kyrgyzstan will help the U.S. with cargo transportation for the antiterrorist coalition forces in Afghanistan after the closure of the Bishkek airport air base, President Almazbek Atambaev said in an interview with Radio Azattig on Thursday.

• May 24, 2012