Ukraine expects to sign a corn quarantine agreement with Beijing by the end of the year, paving the way for exports of the grain to China, said UkrLandFarming (ULF), a major Ukrainian farm company.

• July 18, 2012

The tenth meeting of the Turkmen-Japanese Economic Committee is being held in Tokyo, the official Turkmen source said on Friday. Both countries are discussing prospects for joint investment projects in the oil and gas industry, chemical industry and fisheries, communications, transportation, banking, textile industry at the governmental level.

• July 18, 2012

ranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said his country was prepared to raise its trade volume with the Central Asian nation to $10 billion, up from $5 billion in 2011.

• July 17, 2012

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that there is currently no obstacle in the way of expanding barter trade exchanges with different countries, particularly Pakistan, FNA reported.

• July 16, 2012

Today, the bulk of immigrants to Russia come from Central Asia, and the trend is likely to remain over the next 10-15 years. The most recent Russian census showed that the number of Uzbeks, Tajiks, and Kyrgyz living in the country had roughly doubled since the previous count.

• July 14, 2012

Turkey's state-owned Electricity Transmission Company (TEİAS) signed an agreement with European Energy Exchange to establish energy exchange in Turkey.

• July 7, 2012

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, at the 14th Central Asia Media Conference which opened today in Ashgabat, called upon the authorities in Central Asia to ensure that the Internet is a free and open space and to guarantee freedom of the media and expression online, the organization reported on Thursday.

• July 5, 2012

Following talks in Baku President Herman Van Rompuy of European Union and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan have made statements.

• July 5, 2012