Turkmenistan has never and is not politicising economic cooperation, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov said in an interview with Chinese media outlets published locally.

• November 22, 2011

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai and Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov Igor Ivanovich met in Hanoi on Monday for their meeting as co-chairs of the Vietnam-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission for Economic, Trade, Scientific and Technical Cooperation (CETSTC).

• November 22, 2011

EU Foreign Ministers met in Brussels on 14-15 November to discuss Afghanistan, Middle East and North Africa, Iran and Somalia. Minister for Europe David Lidington reported the outcome to Parliament.

• November 22, 2011

Turkmenistan has issued an angry response to Russian scepticism over the size of its natural gas reserves and reinforced its ambition to find new energy markets in Asia and Europe that will cut its dependence on the Kremlin.

• November 21, 2011

Tehran's Foreign Minister Salehi has played down talk of withdrawing from IAEA or NPT, but parliament speaker adamant about reconsidering cooperation in light of recent damning report.

• November 21, 2011

The Philippines on Monday expressed its interest in acquiring military helicopters, boats and aircraft from South Korea as part of efforts to boost its military capabilities amid growing tensions with China in the disputed South China Sea.

• November 21, 2011

In keeping with its new focus on Central Asian nations, Indian Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh is on a three-day visit to Uzbekistan, where he held a free-wheeling discussion with its military leadership, seeking to enhance defence relations and furthering existing military exchanges, officers said here

• November 19, 2011

Iranian media on Saturday described a resolution from the U.N. nuclear watchdog expressing "deep and increasing concern" about the country's atomic programme as a victory, celebrating the fact it does not call for new U.N. sanctions.

• November 19, 2011