ISSUE #19
05/21/2012
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where he also participated in an informal summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). READ MORE

• May 24, 2012

Kicking-off work on the long discussed US-backed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, India and its new energy partners today signed agreements that will pave way for laying of the 1,680-km line.

• May 23, 2012

Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev says his government strongly supports a project to build a trans-Asia railway to connect his country to both China and Uzbekistan.

• May 23, 2012

World powers and Iran held unusually detailed talks on Wednesday about how it could show its nuclear work is not a disguised quest for atom bombs, in a Baghdad meeting aimed at halting a slide toward a new Middle East war.

• May 23, 2012

Prime Ministers of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus will sign a memorandum with business communities, Vice-President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Murychev announced during the II Eurasian Business Council, which is held within the framework of the V Astana Economic Forum in Astana.

• May 22, 2012

An Uzbek delegation consisting of Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov and Defense Minister Kabul Berdiyev has attended a special session on Afghanistan at the 25th NATO Summit in Chicago (USA), Foreign Ministry said.

• May 22, 2012

Kazakhstan and Ukraine have agreed to cooperate in many sectors of economy, including fuel and energy complex, transport and agriculture, Novosti-Kazakhstan quoted Kazakh First Deputy Prime Minister Serik Ahmetov as saying.

• May 22, 2012

A second round of negotiations on a new agreement to expand the partnership and cooperation between Kazakhstan and the European Union will be held in Brussel on May 24-25, an official representative of Kazakh Foreign Ministry Abibullaev Altai said on Monday.

• May 21, 2012