ISSUE #9
03/12/2012
Europe is ready to continue dialogue with Ukraine. The Ukrainian news and analysis website Lb.ua quoted the press service of High Representative of the EU for Foreign Relations and Security Policy Catherine Ashton as saying that the EU intended to initial an association agreement with Ukraine although it will continue to urge the country to implement international standards of justice. READ MORE

• March 18, 2012

The future second Bulgarian nuclear power plant at Belene will not be solely a project of Bulgaria and Russia, according to Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

• March 16, 2012

NATO, Russia and the Central Asian's countries have a number of common interests in the region, James Appathurai, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia told in an interview with atlantic-community.org.

• March 16, 2012

Russia said Friday it has encouraged the Syrian government to cooperate with Kofi Annan, the envoy charged with trying to help end the violence there, and urged the West to do the same with the Syrian rebels.

• March 16, 2012

Backing moves to open up Indo-Pak trade, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said the two countries must also address "difficult issues" like the Kashmir dispute.

• March 16, 2012

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced support for the Syrian people’s decision on their leadership and again urged a ceasefire and political talks in the violence-wracked country, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

• March 16, 2012

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov will visit Azerbaijan in early April, Russian diplomatic source told Trend.

• March 16, 2012

Syria imported nearly six times more weapons in 2007-2011 than in the previous five-year period, with Russia accounting for 72 percent of the arms supplies to President Bashar Assad’s regime, an international research institute said Monday.

• March 16, 2012