Reclusive Turkmenistan will launch a privatisation of state-held assets in its tightly regulated economy in coming months but looks set to keep control of the vital oil and gas industry, officials said on Saturday

• Date: 12.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 12.01.2013  |  Markets  |  from indianexpress.com

Russia has called for political transition in Syria but reiterated that Syrians themselves should decide about the future of their country without outside interference.

• Date: 12.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 12.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from presstv.ir

Lithuania supports Georgia's political course on European and Euro-Atlantic integration, the European Club president under the Lithuanian Parliament Petras Auštrevičius said today.

• Date: 11.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 11.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Russian and U.S. diplomats plan to hold a meeting with the international mediator for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, on Friday in Geneva, Interfax news agency cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying on Wednesday.

• Date: 11.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 11.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from reuters.com

Japan is planning to increase its defense budget this year for the first time in 11 years, the Defense Ministry's revised budget request showed on Friday, amid a bitter territorial dispute with China.

• Date: 11.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 11.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from reuters.com

Iran says its sole nuclear power plant is now linked to the national energy grid at full capacity after having to be taken off-line for two months.

• Date: 10.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 10.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

Nabucco gas pipeline project's shareholders, Nabucco Gas Pipeline International Gmbh (NIC) and the partners on Azerbaijani Shah Deniz gas condensate field development and Nabucco project's potential investors (SOCAR, BP, Statoil and Total), have agreed on Equity Option and Funding Agreement.

• Date: 10.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 10.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry has published a commentary on future cooperation with Russia at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday.

• Date: 10.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 10.01.2013  |  Markets  |  from trend.az