State support and investments are required to develop the "green economy" and alternative energy sources, Deputy Chief of the Azerbaijani State Agency for Alternative and Renewable Energy Jamil Melikov said at a workshop on the "Regional analysis and dialogue on the legal framework, system and prospects for "green economy "in the member countries of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation ".

• September 3, 2011

Russia is waiting for an invitation to participate in the construction of a power transmission system from Central Asia to South Asia, and it is ready to invest into the project hundreds of millions of dollars, President Dmitry Medvedev said after a meeting with his counterparts from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

• September 2, 2011

Energy ministers from the 18-member East Asia Summit will pledge to boost energy cooperation in areas such as improving nuclear safety and making emergency responses to energy supply disruptions when they meet on September 20 in Brunei, according to the draft of a statement to be issued by them.

• September 1, 2011

Baku will host a next meeting of an Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan intergovernmental commission.
Kazakhs ambassador Serik Primbetov said a large delegation led by the commission`s co-chair, Kazakhstan`s Minister of Oil and Gas Sauat Minbayev, will arrive in Azerbaijan for the meeting slated for September 29.

• August 31, 2011

A former top diplomat vying to become the next prime minister proposed Saturday that Japan stop building new nuclear power plants after the Fukushima disaster and phase out atomic energy over 40 years.

• August 27, 2011

n a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev, North Korean leader Kim il-Jong said he is ready to resume the six-party talks on the settlement of the nuclear problem on the Korean Peninsula without preconditions.

• August 24, 2011

Turkmen President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammedov instructed the finalization of a draft General Program for the Turkmen Energy Sector Development for 2011-2020, an official Turkmen source reported on Monday.

• August 22, 2011

Turkmen President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammedov approved the main directions of development of the country’s industry region Lebap that gained a strategic importance in recent years.

• August 20, 2011