Azerbaijani market is attractive for Hungarian construction companies, Hungarian State Secretary, co-chairman of the joint intergovernmental commission Péter Szijjártó told media today.

• July 23, 2012

The shooting down of a Turkish jet by Syria has not only heightened Turkish-Syrian tensions but has also speeded up the efforts to find a solution to the Syria crisis. To this end, the Syria Action Group convened on June 30 in Geneva at the behest of international envoy Kofi Annan.

• July 23, 2012

North Korea on Friday added a fresh nuclear threat to a propaganda campaign apparently aimed at diverting attention from internecine power struggles and consolidating leader Kim Jong-un’s rule. A spokesman for the North’s Foreign Ministry in a statement said the U.S.’ hostility to the North has reached an ‘extremely reckless level’ where it ‘incites an enormously hostile act insulting the dignity’ of the ruling Kim family.

• July 23, 2012

Turkmenistan has expressed readiness to increase export of electricity and natural gas to its southwestern neighboring state, Iran.

• July 21, 2012

On a recent working trip to New Delhi, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin set out plans to expand bilateral trade and economic cooperation between Russia and India.

• July 21, 2012

Chinese nuclear firms are considering investing 35 billion pounds in building up to five new nuclear reactors in Britain, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

• July 21, 2012

A Turkmen government delegation is travelling to Tokyo to attend the next meeting of the joint venture with Japan's economic cooperation committee which will be held on July 19, an official Turkmen source said on Tuesday.

• July 18, 2012

India and Russia Tuesday signed a protocol for Russian funding for units III and IV at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu, even as expectations are rising over likely operationalisation of units I and II anytime soon.

• July 18, 2012