For the obsessive-compulsive bureaucrat, there is no more invigorating exercise than preparing for a state visit by a foreign leader to the White House.

• Date: 05.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from foreignaffairs.com

France's energy giant EDF has refused a Russian offer to build a nuclear power plant, Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said after meeting his French counterpart Francois Fillon.

• Date: 03.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from expatica.com

Turkey has decided that it will not renew for another five years a 25-year-old natural gas deal with Russia on the grounds that the energy-rich country’s supplier Gazprom has declined to discount the natural gas it sells to Turkey via the Russia-Turkey Western Pipeline, Today’s Zaman reported.

• Date: 03.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from apa.az

The Russian Federation’s ambassador to Belarus Alekhandr Surikov told reporters in the Belarusian capital Minsk that a draft Belarusian-Russian interstate agreement on the construction of a new 2,400 megawatt nuclear power plant for Belarus will be ready in October.

• Date: 01.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from oilprice.com

The European Union is interested in attracting Kazakh investments to purchase Eurobonds and other debt instruments of European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) backed by the guarantees of eurozone states, Kazinform reported.

• Date: 01.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

In Japan's most aggressive move to promote exports of nuclear technology since the Fukushima Daiichi accident in March, a Tokyo-based utility consortium signed a deal with Vietnam on Wednesday to conduct a feasibility study for two new reactors.

• Date: 28.09.2011  |  Published on EGF: 28.09.2011  |  Energy  |  from foxbusiness.com

The European Union (EU) and Azerbaijani Finance Ministry launched a Twinning project "Support to the State Financial Control Service to improve financial controls". The project was presented in Baku on Wednesday.

• Date: 28.09.2011  |  Published on EGF: 28.09.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

A Russian-controlled company will soon start supplying 20 percent of the aviation fuel at the strategically vital U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan, and it could eventually increase that share, officials said

• Date: 28.09.2011  |  Published on EGF: 28.09.2011  |  External Relations  |  from businessweek.com