With Turkey's foreign policy not based on a zero-sum game, the country tries to maximize its relations with all countries to be an effective player in the region, and eventually in the world, according to Gökhan Çetinsaya, the rector of İstanbul Şehir University.

• Date: 13.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from todayszaman.com

Reflecting their desire to deepen the strategic partnership, India and Germany have for the first time discussed the possibilities of entering into bilateral cooperation in civil nuclear energy.

• Date: 13.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from rediff.com

Iran's president, on a visit to China, has criticised the world's nuclear powers for wanting "to monopolise" the technology for their own gain.

• Date: 13.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from aljazeera.net

Japan and Russia are to jointly build a liquid natural gas (LNG) plant in the Russian port of Vladivostok, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

• Date: 11.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from france24.com

Armenia and Kazakhstan to increase bilateral trade turnover.

• Date: 11.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from news.az

The leaders of Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Turkmenistan meet today in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat to formally approve a $7.6 billion gas pipeline project.  

• Date: 11.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the real GDP in countries in the Middle East and Central Asia to hit 5.7 percent in 2010 and 5.4 percent in 2011, IMF Regional Economist Niklas Vestelius said.

• Date: 11.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from tradingcharts.com

The former Soviet republic of Georgia wants the United States to outline the steps necessary for it to join NATO.

• Date: 10.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chron.com