ISSUE #11
03/26/2012
On 21 March 2012, the Ukrainian parliament adopted in the first reading a bill on the implementation of a resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
The author of the document, MP of the pro-government Party of Regions Ivan Popesku, said that “the draft resolution was stripped of political pressure and a political overtone. It envisions the implementation of the EU requirements by Ukraine in the section on the need to align the Ukrainian legislation with the EU norms and standards and, in particular, in the judicial sector.” READ MORE

• March 29, 2012

Sweden will expand its diplomatic mission in Azerbaijan, Ambassador of Sweden Mikael Eriksson said on Wednesday. Eriksson said the opening of the Sweden Embassy in Azerbaijan, most likely, will take place in autumn 2012.

• March 28, 2012

Today in Moscow Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ spokesman Alexander Lukashevich has said that on 2-3 April Lavrov will meet in Yerevan with the President and the Foreign Minister of Armenia, on 3-4 April in Baku will hold talks with the President and the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan. Already on 4-5 April the Russian FM is expected to visit Kyrgyzstan and then Kazakhstan.

• March 27, 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

The agreement at a regional conference in the Tajik capital Dushanbe underlines how close ties are between Iran, the United States' arch-foe, and Central Asia.

• 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

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon called for more cooperation during their summit in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe.

• March 26, 2012