According to the Tajik MFA information department, Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi and Mr. Stephen Nellen, Swiss Ambassador to Tajikistan (with residence in Astana), signed a number of documents on bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Switzerland.

• October 26, 2011

Ahead of a Russian visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in December “privileged strategic partnership” between Moscow and New Delhi faced serious problems, the Kommersant writes. The project to build a nuclear power plant involving Russian specialists in Kudankulam is under threat over the protests of local residents.

• October 26, 2011

India and Japan will hold their fifth strategic dialogue from Friday during which the two sides will review and discuss ways to strengthen cooperation in key areas, including civil nuclear field, trade and security.

• October 25, 2011

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a resolution by approving the major directions of developing the industrial sector of the Mary region, an official Turkmen source said on Monday.

• October 24, 2011

Managing director of the National Iranian Gas Exports Company (NIGC) announced Iran's readiness to transit Turkmenistan's natural gas to Europe saying that foreign companies have confessed inefficiency of Nabucco Pipeline.

• October 24, 2011

U.S. and North Korean diplomats began talks Monday on Pyongyang's nuclear program, the second direct encounter between the two sides in less than three months.

• October 24, 2011

A Czech delegation headed by chairman of the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitions of the Senate of the Czech Republic Jaromir Ermar is in Ashgabat, the Turkmen government said.

• October 22, 2011

Tajikistan considers the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit as an important political event for the future cooperation between the two countries, Tajikistan's Foreign Affairs Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi said on Saturday.

• October 22, 2011