A meeting with an Iranian delegation headed by the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Seyyed Mohammad Hoseini, who arrived in Ashgabat during the Days of Iranian Culture in Turkmenistan, has been held at the Foreign Ministry, the Turkmen embassy in Azerbaijan said.

• March 6, 2012

Kazakhstan attaches utmost importance to strengthening the role of the United Nations in the international arena and the implementation of its projects and programmes in the country. In twenty years since Kazakhstan's accession to the UN on March 2, 1992, the two sides have established strong relations that continue to grow and produce important results.

• March 5, 2012

Kyrgyzstan is ready to discuss the oil and gas development project with Azerbaijan, head of the State Agency for Geology and Mineral Resources of the Kyrgyz Government Uchkunbek Tashbaev said during a meeting with SOCAR VP David Mammadov.

• March 5, 2012

The Russian Defense Ministry has settled its debt to Kyrgyzstan for keeping its military bases in that country, the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry told Interfax on Saturday.

• March 3, 2012

Kazakh officials hope that recent trade deals with Germany and France will lead to a trade pact with the European Union that will fuel the Central Asian nation’s economic development.

• March 2, 2012

Russia and China do not want armed intervention in Syria? Good deal! There was never any question, west side, repeat the Libyan episode in 2011. Causing blockage of Russia and China to the UN, it is not only the fear of a regime change in Damascus by international armed intervention that nobody wants. It is the fear of a regime change under external pressure whatsoever, whether diplomatic pressure, threats of financial penalties or energy.

• March 2, 2012

Islamabad, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked the US not to interfere in Pakistan’s internal matters.
Gilani insisted that Pakistan is a sovereign nation, and therefore it would make decisions which served its interests, The Nation reports.

• March 2, 2012

Turkmenistan and Turkey have signed a package of intergovernmental agreements after negotiations at the highest level in Ankara, an official Turkmen source said on Thursday.

• March 1, 2012