Pakistan should develop broad-based relations, particularly in energy projects, and improve people-to-people contacts with the Central Asian Republics (CARs), which are the centre of global attention, mainly because of their huge natural resources.

• April 3, 2010

Following are facts about relations between Venezuela and Russia: Russia is the world's second-biggest oil exporter and biggest gas producer. OPEC member Venezuela boasts Latin America's largest oil reserves and 7.9 percent

• April 3, 2010

The Iraqi political grouping of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr holds its own a referendum on who should be the country's prime minister.

• April 2, 2010

Aviation could prove a fresh field for diplomatic conflict between Georgia and Russia after an announcement by the de facto government of breakaway Abkhazia that it plans to reopen an Abkhaz airport with Moscow’s assistance. Georgian officials tell EurasiaNet.org that they expect the European Union to help Tbilisi block such assistance -- an expectation that the EU has not confirmed.

• April 2, 2010

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is expected to visit Baku, the Romanian ambassador to Azerbaijan told journalists Thursday.

• April 2, 2010

After Russia's second series of suicide bombings this week, President Medvedev paid a visit to Dagestan, where new reports link bombings there to those in Moscow.

• April 2, 2010

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• April 2, 2010

Kyiv is ready to discuss cooperation with Moscow in upgrading Ukraine's gas transportation system, nuclear industry, aerospace industry and aircraft engineering, according to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

• April 2, 2010