Kyrgyzstan and Russia remain strategic partners, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev on Thursday, KyrTAG reported on Thursday.

• April 5, 2012

A peaceful and stable Pakistan is integral to western efforts to pacify Afghanistan, but Islamabad’s obsessions with its giant eastern neighbor may render such issues moot.
Since partition in 1947, Pakistan and India have fought four armed conflicts, in 1947, 1965, 1971 (which led to the establishment of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan) and the 1999 Kargil clash.

• April 5, 2012

Azerbaijan has practically lost optimism in respect of prospects for laying Trans Caspian gas pipeline for Turkmen gas supplies to Europe via Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.

• April 4, 2012

Iran's foreign minister said İstanbul remains an acceptable location for talks with world powers over Tehran's nuclear program, but noted Wednesday that his country has proposed other venues - such as Iraq or China - for the negotiations scheduled to start next week.

• April 4, 2012

The presidents of the United States, Russia, and Kazakhstan have hailed the success of a project to clean up a huge Soviet-era nuclear test site in Semey, formerly known as Semipalatinsk, in Kazakhstan.

• March 27, 2012

Kazakhstan's ambassador to Belarus says state-affiliated Kazakh oil firms are interested in obtaining ownership stakes in Belarusian oil refineries.

• March 27, 2012

Tajikistan aims to secure natural gas supplies from Turkmenistan to avert a worsening fuel shortage as its traditional supplier prepares to stop pumping from next week, a high-ranking Tajik government representative told Reuters on Wednesday.

• March 27, 2012

Uzbekistan says it will halt natural gas deliveries to its energy-starved neighbor, Tajikistan, starting next month.

• March 26, 2012