President Nursultan Nazarbayev has received credentials from newly-appointed ambassadors of several foreign countries to Kazakhstan. The President's press service reports.

• September 12, 2011

Year 2012 is shaping up to be another year when the developments in the Pacific Basin will be the key determinants of Coal demand. With US demand muted by low gas prices and EU demand kept in check by expansion in renewable generation and poor macroeconomic prospects, Asia will be the sole source of market impetus, says Barcalys in a report.

• September 12, 2011

India has assured its willingness to support Kyrgyzstan in strengthening its defence and security apparatus. The details of the support was discussed by the Indian Defence Minister, AK Antony and the visiting Kyrgyzstan Defence Minister, Major General Abibilla Kudaberdiev

• September 11, 2011

Moldova sees Azerbaijan as a strategic partner, the ambassador of Moldova to Azerbaijan, Igor Bodiu, said.

• September 11, 2011

Turkmenistan supplies electricity to Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey, and the electricity expert volumes are growing steadily, Turkmen President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammadov said in his address to the Turkmen energy sector employees on the occasion of their professional holiday

• September 11, 2011

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who is on an official visit to Belgrade, met with Mirko Cvetkovic on Tuesday, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.

• September 7, 2011

The quadrilateral meeting of heads of state of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Russia ended, adopting a joint statement pledging to strengthen regional trade and to fight terrorism and the narcotics trade.

• September 3, 2011

Russia is ready to invest "hundreds of millions of dollars" to join high-voltage power line and gas pipeline projects in Central Asia, President Dmitry Medvedev said in the Tajik capital.

• September 3, 2011