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

Iran expects to hold more talks with world powers on its nuclear program following an inconclusive round of negotiations in Istanbul earlier this month, its foreign minister said in a newspaper interview published on Monday.

• July 30, 2012

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon will pay an official visit to Turkmenistan in the second half of August, the Turkmen government said today. The issues of preparing the visit were raised at the government meeting.

• July 30, 2012

Turkmenistan and Russia will discuss iissues of economic cooperation during the sixth meeting of the Turkmen-Russian intergovernmental commission, to be held in Moscow on July 30-31, an official Turkmen source said on Monday.

• July 30, 2012

Syrian ambassador to Belarus Farouk Taha joined the opposition, refusing to return to Damascus, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported today.

• July 28, 2012

President of the Swiss Confederation Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf will visit Kazakhstan with a big group of businessmen, the Kazakh presidential press-service said on Saturday.

• July 28, 2012