Italy and Serbia signed a strategic partnership on renewable energy in Rome on Tuesday. The goal is for Italian companies to produce hydroelectric power in Serbia and export it to Italy via Montenegro.

• October 27, 2011

Russia has reaffirmed its stated commitment to help Armenia build a new nuclear plant, while cautioning that the ambitious and expensive project will not be easy to implement.

• October 27, 2011

Armenian capital city Yerevan hosted today the 12-th meeting of the CIS Commission for Use of Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Purposes and also a meeting of international working groups.

• October 27, 2011

Sofia and Podgorica are considering setting up a joint company for the transfer of electricity to Italy after talks were held between Montenegrin Prime Minister Igor Luksic Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov in Sofia.

• October 25, 2011

India and Japan will hold their fifth strategic dialogue from Friday during which the two sides will review and discuss ways to strengthen cooperation in key areas, including civil nuclear field, trade and security.

• October 25, 2011

The Energy Community Treaty was signed between the European Union and nine countries (so-called contracting parties) from the Balkans (seven states), Moldova, and Ukraine with Armenia, Georgia, Norway and Turkey as observers. The Treaty entered into force in 2006 and has had five years of success: it established an increasing socio-economic stability and security of supply.

• October 25, 2011

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a resolution by approving the major directions of developing the industrial sector of the Mary region, an official Turkmen source said on Monday.

• October 24, 2011

Managing director of the National Iranian Gas Exports Company (NIGC) announced Iran's readiness to transit Turkmenistan's natural gas to Europe saying that foreign companies have confessed inefficiency of Nabucco Pipeline.

• October 24, 2011