Russia is seeking to revive last summer's peace plan for Syria in talks with a senior Syrian diplomat and an international envoy, according to Moscow's foreign ministry.

• December 27, 2012

Russia and China are starting construction work on the second stage of the Tianwan nuclear power plant, Russian officials said on Thursday.

• December 27, 2012

EU heavyweight France, currently blocking five chapters in the EU acquis communautaire for Turkey, has given positive signals in its recent messages to the EU community that it will lift its block on some chapters in an effort to revitalize stagnant Turkey-EU ties.

• December 26, 2012

The strategic partnership between Azerbaijan and Georgia will continue in the future, Head of Azerbaijani Presidential Administration's Social and Political Department Ali Hasanov told media today.

• December 26, 2012

Tehran has lifted a ban on the export of some products from Iran to Armenia, Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan said stressing that this became possible as a result of negotiations, Armenian news agency 7or.am., reported.

• December 26, 2012

Special Edition
12/24/2012
On 24 December 2012, President Viktor Yanukovych appointed a new cabinet chaired by Mykola Azarov.
The first deputy prime minister (overseeing agricultural policy, economy, trade, social policy, finance, earnings and levies), Serhiy Arbuzov (previously the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine). READ MORE

• December 26, 2012

IRI Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Monday expressed Iran's readiness to expand economic, trade, parliamentary and cultural cooperation with Vietnam.

• December 25, 2012

Kazakh State Oil and Gas Company "KazMunaiGas" and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) are in talks to create the infrastructure needed to transport oil from Kazakhstan's Kashagan field within the second phase of its development, Kazakh Ambassador to Azerbaijan Serik Primbetov said at a press conference at the Trend International News Agency on Tuesday.

• December 25, 2012