The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is helping to modernise Kazakhstan’s energy generation network with a senior secured loan of 3.1 billion Kazakh tenge (equivalent to €15 million) to AES Sogrinsk CHP power plant.

• March 1, 2011

Lithuania is in talks with Japan about cooperation on nuclear energy after Korea Electric Power Corp. withdrew a bid to build an atomic facility in 2010.

• February 28, 2011

Bangladesh has signed here a "primary deal" with Russia for installing a 2,000 MW nuclear power plant, which would be its first.

• February 25, 2011

Britain remained committed to talks with Iran on its nuclear program, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on a tour of the Middle East

• February 24, 2011

Ukraine is interested in Azerbaijan's participation in the Viking rail transit route, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said while meeting with Azerbaijan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov

• February 24, 2011

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi was due in South Korea Wednesday for talks expected to cover North Korea's newly disclosed uranium enrichment programme and other issues, officials said.

• February 23, 2011

Saudi Arabia and France yesterday signed a bilateral cooperation agreement on developing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

• February 23, 2011

European plans to liberalise energy markets have undermined Russian investments, including the second phase of the Nord Stream gas pipeline to Germany, Russian Gas Society President Valery Yazev said on Monday.

• February 22, 2011