Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have traded accusations over a contested patch of oil field in the Caspian Sea.

• June 19, 2012

Talks over Iran’s nuclear energy ambitions have resumed between Iran and the Group 5 +1, in Moscow, according to a source, after earlier reports suggested that they had ended, RIA Novosti reported.

• June 19, 2012

On Monday Almaty hosted the first meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry under the chairmanship of Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov, Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Altai Abibullayev said at a news briefing in Astana.

• June 18, 2012

Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan will set up a joint container shipping company, Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev told a press conference in Saint Petersburg on 15 June, Kazinform has learned from BelTA.

• June 18, 2012

The Parliamentary Committee for International Affairs decided to cancel its decision as of February 27, 2012 to approve ratification of the agreement between Kyrgyzstan and Russia on cooperation in the sphere of oil and oil products supply, CA-NEWS reported.

• June 18, 2012

Stability in South Asia will remain a "distant dream" as long as the Kashmir issue remains unresolved and Pakistan must strive for a "just solution" of the dispute, the country's second-highest ranking military official has said.

• June 16, 2012

Tajikistan and Iran last week concluded the ninth meeting of the Joint Economic Commission in Tehran, where the two countries signed five agreements in the hydroelectric, oil and health sectors.

• June 15, 2012

Turkmenistan and China have signed a deal making good on Turkmenistan President Gurbanbuly Berdimuhamedow's earlier promise to increase his country's natural gas shipments to China to 65 billion cubic meters per year (bcm/y).

• June 14, 2012