Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, urged international support on Tuesday for U.N. envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan for Syria, despite calls from Arab and Western states for a tougher response to the bloodshed.

• June 5, 2012

Washington reached out to Syria's most important ally and protector Saturday, urging Russia to join a coordinated effort to resolve the deadly conflict as the violence spilled across the border into Lebanon.

• June 2, 2012

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met with Iran's Minister of Energy Majid Namjoo. President Sargsyan noted that Armenia attaches great importance to cooperation with friendly Iran.

• June 2, 2012

Krishna also said India feels no obligation to observe United States’ unilateral sanctions on Iran, insisting that India will not cut its “legitimate” trade with Tehran.

• June 2, 2012

China and Russia agreed on Friday to strengthen energy cooperation, a decision preceding a visit of President Vladimir Putin aiming at strengthening bilateral relations.

• June 1, 2012

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has met with German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Dirk Niebel.

• June 1, 2012

After considerable speculation as to who was divorcing who in the on-going TNK-BP saga, BP appears first to be stilted. The British oil major has received ‘unsolicited indications’ for its 50% holding in TNK-BP. The Anglo-Russian entity was valued at $60bn last year, with formative price tags predictably coming in at $30bn to ease BP’s divorce from its acrimonious AAR wife.

• June 1, 2012

Amid mounting Western pressure, India Thursday underlined that unilateral sanctions should not impact upon its "legitimate trade interests" with Iran as Tehran urged New Delhi to hike its crude-oil purchases.

• May 31, 2012