Azerbaijani market is attractive for Hungarian construction companies, Hungarian State Secretary, co-chairman of the joint intergovernmental commission Péter Szijjártó told media today.

• July 23, 2012

The shooting down of a Turkish jet by Syria has not only heightened Turkish-Syrian tensions but has also speeded up the efforts to find a solution to the Syria crisis. To this end, the Syria Action Group convened on June 30 in Geneva at the behest of international envoy Kofi Annan.

• July 23, 2012

North Korea on Friday added a fresh nuclear threat to a propaganda campaign apparently aimed at diverting attention from internecine power struggles and consolidating leader Kim Jong-un’s rule. A spokesman for the North’s Foreign Ministry in a statement said the U.S.’ hostility to the North has reached an ‘extremely reckless level’ where it ‘incites an enormously hostile act insulting the dignity’ of the ruling Kim family.

• July 23, 2012

Turkmenistan has expressed readiness to increase export of electricity and natural gas to its southwestern neighboring state, Iran.

• July 21, 2012

A Turkmen government delegation is travelling to Tokyo to attend the next meeting of the joint venture with Japan's economic cooperation committee which will be held on July 19, an official Turkmen source said on Tuesday.

• July 18, 2012

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso agreed to hold a meeting of the working group in Ashgabat to develop a mechanism ensuring the delivery of Turkmen energy resources to Europe in September 2012, Turkmen TV said on Wednesday.

• July 18, 2012

The Turkmen government has stressed there are good prospects for increasing exports of electricity and energy to Iran. This was said during a recent meeting of the intergovernmental Turkmen-Iranian commission for economic cooperation in Tehran, the Turkmen government said today.

• July 18, 2012

Turkmen and Azerbaijani governments have got the chance to solve their disagreements not waiting for holding III meeting of Azerbaijan-Turkmen Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation. Azerbaijani sources report that the meeting of the Council of CIS Government Heads will take place in Ashgabat in September.

• July 18, 2012