Ahmet Davutoglu is the first Turkish foreign minister visiting Turkmenistan in nine years.

• December 13, 2010

ISSUE #20
11/26/2010

November 22nd, in Brussels 14-th Summit European Union (EU) -Ukraine got underway.
The President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych took part in the summit. During the meeting delegates discussed the process of reforms in Ukraine, relations between Ukraine and the EU, as well as the issues of regional cooperation. Also the parties signed the protocol to the Cooperation and Partnership agreement, that outlines main principles of Ukraine's participation in EU's programs.
The key moment of the Summit was EU's proposition of the Action Plan to grant Ukraine visa-free travel for short stays in EU countries. READ MORE

• December 13, 2010

ISSUE #19
11/19/2010

Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission in Ukraine Thanos Arvanitis said that Ukraine had fulfilled all main obligations within the framework of the cooperation program with the IMF. Prime-Minister of Ukraine Nikolay Azarov predicts that by the end of 2010 the Board of Directors of the IMF would decide on granting Ukraine the second tranche of the loan in the amount of 1.6 billion dollars. READ MORE

• December 12, 2010

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the real GDP in countries in the Middle East and Central Asia to hit 5.7 percent in 2010 and 5.4 percent in 2011, IMF Regional Economist Niklas Vestelius said.

• December 11, 2010

The leaders of Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Turkmenistan meet today in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat to formally approve a $7.6 billion gas pipeline project.  

• December 11, 2010

Armenia and Kazakhstan to increase bilateral trade turnover.

• December 11, 2010

Japan and Russia are to jointly build a liquid natural gas (LNG) plant in the Russian port of Vladivostok, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

• December 11, 2010

ISSUE #18
11/12/2010

Leader of «Batkivschyna» Party Yulia Tymoshenko called the recent local elections the dirtiest and the most unfair elections in the whole history of independent Ukraine.
She noted that the results of the elections should have been made public no later than November 5th, however as of November 9th the results of the elections had not been yet announced. In her opinion this proves that the Government is still tempering with the results of the elections in order to get a favorable outcome. «We can not accept such results», - she said. She called Viktor Yanukovych the key organizer of the violations that took place during the elections. «The President has a personal political responsibility for the planned falsifications that occurred during the elections», - the leader of «Batkivschyna» Party said. Along with that she added that her Party will defend the rights of its members to vote and be elected in the European Court of Human Rights. READ MORE

• December 11, 2010