According to the Tajik MFA information department, Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi and Mr. Stephen Nellen, Swiss Ambassador to Tajikistan (with residence in Astana), signed a number of documents on bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Switzerland.

• October 26, 2011

Ahead of a Russian visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in December “privileged strategic partnership” between Moscow and New Delhi faced serious problems, the Kommersant writes. The project to build a nuclear power plant involving Russian specialists in Kudankulam is under threat over the protests of local residents.

• October 26, 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

ISSUE #36
10/24/2011
On 20 October 2011, Ukraine and the EU announced that they had completed negotiations on setting up a free trade area (FTA). “After intensive talks, we managed to agree all the key parameters of an FTA agreement,” the Ukrainian first deputy prime minister and minister of economic development and trade, Andriy Klyuyev, said. READ MORE

• 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