Anakhanum Hidayatova-APA. Azerbaijani ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Arif Aliyev has finished his diplomatic mission in this country.

• August 2, 2012

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta met his Israeli counterpart on Wednesday just days after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited Jerusalem and pledged to support any measures to keep Iran from developing a nuclear bomb.

• August 1, 2012

Chairman of Turkmen Parliament Akja Nurberdieva received credentials of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Argentine Republic in Turkmenistan (with residence in Moscow) Juan Carlos Kreklera, the national TV channel Altin Asir reported on Wednesday.

• August 1, 2012

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has set parliamentary elections on October 1, 2012, press secretary of President of Georgia Manana Manjgaladze said at a press briefing.

• August 1, 2012

Adding to the already loud din of criticism of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he said Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, China today said Mr. Romney’s “hawkish remarks” could spark conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

• July 31, 2012

On July 27, the Delegation of the European Commission in Baku announced that the European Union twinning project Strengthening the Capacity of the Department of Tourism in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan was to be implemented by the Lithuanian State Department of Tourism under the Ministry of Economy together with Austrian partners, reported BC Lithuania's MFA.

• July 31, 2012

Uzbek Foreign Minister has held talks with Turkmen Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador Shiri Shiriyev today, the Foreign Ministry said.

• July 31, 2012

Introduction
Debates about the geopolitical, geo-economic and strategic significance of the wider-Black Sea (WBS) region have become fashionable amongst Western policy makers and the international scholarly community since the end of the Cold War. While the Black Sea represented a “front line” in the stand-off between rival superpower blocks during an age which now seems to have slipped into the bygone days of our youth, the major geopolitical realignments which have taken place in Eurasia during the last two decades have evidently led to our “re-discovery” of one of the world’s most historically significant geostrategic playing fields. READ MORE

• July 31, 2012