Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will visit the Austrian city of Salzburg to attend the conference Salzburg Trilogy on Can economic growth be socially oriented and environmentally sustainable? topic on August17 -19, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

• August 17, 2012

Kazakhstan entered the first tranche of $ 30 million in a joint investment fund with Kyrgyzstan. This was announced on Thursday at the Bishkek official presentation of the Kazakh-Kyrgyz Investment Fund (KKIF).

• August 17, 2012

Turkish Cotam Enterprises, which is a long-term partner of Turkmenistan, has offered new projects for consideration, an official Turkmen source said on Wednesday.

• August 17, 2012

ISSUE #31
08/13/2012
The official representative of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office, Vladimir Markin, said on 8 August 2012 that Georgia's authorities used Ukrainian hirelings to compromise Russian soldiers in the armed conflict in South Ossetia in 2008. Markin said that the Ukrainians “dressed in Russian military uniform and then scenes showing Russian servicemen attacking and robbing Georgian civilians were staged”. Markin added that Russia is going to complain to the International Criminal Court demanding an investigation into these facts. READ MORE

• August 17, 2012

Turkish President Abdullah Gul held a bilateral meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of an emergency summit meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Anadolu Agency reported.

• August 16, 2012

Turkish media quoted US ambassador to Turkey as saying that Iran, a close ally of Syria, was providing weapons for Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad's forces.

• August 16, 2012

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received outgoing Israeli ambassador Michael Lavon-Lotem.

• August 16, 2012

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who is in Mecca for participation in the IV Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit, has met with Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

• August 15, 2012