Turkey's Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan next week will arrive in Azerbaijan to attend a meeting of economic ministers of member countries of Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking states, which will open in Baku on August 13, advisor to the minister Cevdet Kaledci told Trend on Thursday.

• August 8, 2012

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon received the Russian military delegation headed by Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov. The delegation is in Dushanbe on a three-day working visit, military and diplomatic sources told ITAR-TASS. The sources noted that the main theme of the meeting was the question of the terms and conditions of 201st Russian military base stay in Tajikistan.

• August 8, 2012

Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov will visit Tajikistan on Aug.9, CA-News reported on Tuesday. Antonov will hold a number of meetings with Tajik defence officials.

• August 7, 2012

Tajikistan has invited Azerbaijani investors to participate in investment projects, the Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO) said on Tuesday.

• August 7, 2012

Trade turnover between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan decreased by 30 percent from the beginning of the year, CA-News reported on Tuesday.

• August 7, 2012

Temporary visa, which is introduced by Iran for citizens of Azerbaijan, will be free, the spokesman for the Iranian Embassy in Baku, Abbas Iskenderi, told Trend on Monday.

• August 6, 2012

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the borders regions between Iran and Pakistan should be the most active ones in terms of trade and commercial transactions, IRNA reported.

• August 6, 2012

A program of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov's visit to Turkey, scheduled for Aug. 9-10 was discussed at a government meeting in Ashgabat, the Turkmen government said on Monday.

• August 6, 2012