The United States and other countries agreed Tuesday to resume negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.

• March 6, 2012

Kazakhstan attaches utmost importance to strengthening the role of the United Nations in the international arena and the implementation of its projects and programmes in the country. In twenty years since Kazakhstan's accession to the UN on March 2, 1992, the two sides have established strong relations that continue to grow and produce important results.

• March 5, 2012

Kyrgyzstan is ready to discuss the oil and gas development project with Azerbaijan, head of the State Agency for Geology and Mineral Resources of the Kyrgyz Government Uchkunbek Tashbaev said during a meeting with SOCAR VP David Mammadov.

• March 5, 2012

Russia, the world's top crude producer, rejected a Chinese request for more Siberian pipeline oil, saying the link is already pumping at full capacity and additional volumes are not available, two Russian state industry sources told Reuters.

• March 5, 2012

The Russian Defense Ministry has settled its debt to Kyrgyzstan for keeping its military bases in that country, the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry told Interfax on Saturday.

• March 3, 2012

Unless Ukraine lifts its ban of Belarusian milk and meat, Minsk threatens to impose a total ban on Ukrainian export to this country, Ukraine agriculture ministry March 3 website release runs.

• March 3, 2012

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has rejected the terms of a Russian offer for the two sides to restore diplomatic relations for the first time since their 2008 war over a breakaway Georgian republic.

• March 3, 2012

Kazakh officials hope that recent trade deals with Germany and France will lead to a trade pact with the European Union that will fuel the Central Asian nation’s economic development.

• March 2, 2012