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

North Korea has agreed with the United States to suspend major elements of its atomic weapons programme in a surprise breakthrough that could pave the way for the resumption of long-stalled nuclear disarmament talks with the secretive state.

• March 1, 2012

China has welcomed North Korea's agreement to freeze nuclear activities in return for US food aid, a deal that raised cautious hopes of an easing of tensions under Pyongyang's new young leader.

• March 1, 2012

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, re-elected to his post in elections earlier this month with 97 percent of votes, has praised his country’s ties with Turkey.

• February 29, 2012

Tajikistan's ambassador to Russia says his country expects Russia to pay rent for bases it uses on Tajik territory.

• February 29, 2012

Military officials of Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan and China discussed arms reduction at the border during a special seminar in Astana, the press-service of the Kazakh Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.

• February 29, 2012

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov has praised his country's ties with Turkey, saying they amount to a strategic partnership, and called Turkey and Turkmenistan “one nation with two states.

• February 28, 2012

Russia and Kazakhstan set up the work on the agreement on western sector of the Russian-Kazakh state border demarcation, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Tuesday following the regular meeting of the joint Russian-Kazakh demarcation commission, held in Almaty on Feb. 13-17.

• February 28, 2012