US Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake has said his country has no plans to set up a military base in Uzbekistan, following media speculation that Washington was entering a deal with Tashkent on the issue.

• August 18, 2012

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister has been invited on an official visit to Austria. Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on the sidelines of the Salzburg Trilogy conference, held in the Austrian city of Salzburg, met with Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

• August 18, 2012

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov feels that Iran's nuclear problem is no more dangerous than other international problems, The Voice of Russia reported.

• August 18, 2012

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will visit the Austrian city of Salzburg to attend the conference Salzburg Trilogy on Can economic growth be socially oriented and environmentally sustainable? topic on August17 -19, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

• August 17, 2012

Kazakhstan entered the first tranche of $ 30 million in a joint investment fund with Kyrgyzstan. This was announced on Thursday at the Bishkek official presentation of the Kazakh-Kyrgyz Investment Fund (KKIF).

• August 17, 2012

Turkish Cotam Enterprises, which is a long-term partner of Turkmenistan, has offered new projects for consideration, an official Turkmen source said on Wednesday.

• August 17, 2012

ISSUE #31
08/13/2012
The official representative of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office, Vladimir Markin, said on 8 August 2012 that Georgia's authorities used Ukrainian hirelings to compromise Russian soldiers in the armed conflict in South Ossetia in 2008. Markin said that the Ukrainians “dressed in Russian military uniform and then scenes showing Russian servicemen attacking and robbing Georgian civilians were staged”. Markin added that Russia is going to complain to the International Criminal Court demanding an investigation into these facts. READ MORE

• August 17, 2012

Turkish President Abdullah Gul held a bilateral meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of an emergency summit meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Anadolu Agency reported.

• August 16, 2012