At September 16 sitting, the Armenian government approved Armenia-Croatia contract to promote bilateral cooperation in the sectors of economy, science and engineering as well as stimulation and protection of investments.

• September 17, 2010

The United States and its allies in Northeast Asia are trying to fashion an opening to North Korea out of concern that the current policy toward the isolated nuclear-armed nation could lead to war, U.S. and Asian officials said

• September 17, 2010

The Estonian state-owned Eesti Energia Distribution Grid is carrying out an international state procurement to find partners for regular maintenance and repair works, liquidating malfunctions and building new electricity networks

• September 17, 2010

Trade tensions between the United States and China ratcheted up another notch Wednesday, as Washington called on the WTO to probe unfair Chinese trade practices.

• September 16, 2010

Last year, $3.4bn was invested in the dirtiest fossil fuel despite international commitments to cut emissions

• September 16, 2010

Azerbaijan will be ready to boost supplies to Iran to 1 billion cubic meters a year once a pricing agreement is reached, an Azerbaijani Energy Ministry official said.

• September 16, 2010

The Belarusian authorities were obviously hasty to set the election date. According to the Constitution, the election is to be held two months before the expiry of the term of the president at the latest. Expiry of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s powers is on April 6, 2011. So the election could be set for February 6

• September 16, 2010

The agenda for a planned Russian-Norwegian summit on Wednesday includes a Russian proposal for extending Russian-Norwegian cooperation in nuclear and radiation security, whose current site is northwestern Russia, to other Russian regions, including the Baltic area

• September 15, 2010