Russia and China have firmed up their nuclear cooperation, with Moscow set to build two more high-power reactors in this country's Tianwan atomic plant.

• Date: 28.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 28.04.2012  |  Energy  |  from timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Kazakhstan and Germany have vast potential to further enhance their economic and trade relations and raise bilateral cooperation to a new level. First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Serik Akhmetov, delivered this message at the Third Raw Materials Conference in Berlin held on April 25.

• Date: 28.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 28.04.2012  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.inform.kz/

Iran is preparing public opinion for possible concessions on its nuclear programme in renewed talks with six world powers.

• Date: 27.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 27.04.2012  |  Energy  |  from thenational.ae

As Syrian dictator Bashar Assad continues his slaughter, the issue is not whether more forceful U.S. action to stop him is risk-free.

• Date: 27.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 27.04.2012  |  External Relations  |  from dallasnews.com

Senior Taliban leaders tell Channel 4 News that talks with the United States have started again in Qatar - intransigence on all sides is blamed for the failure of talks earlier this year.

• Date: 27.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 27.04.2012  |  External Relations  |  from channel4.com

Iran is thinking of halting its nuclear programme to avoid EU sanctions that will make it impossible to export most of its oil. Responding to a proposal by Russia to halt its nuclear programme in exchange for no imposition of sanctions, Iranian ambassador to Russia Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi said: "We need to study this proposal and to establish on what basis it has been made."

• Date: 26.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 26.04.2012  |  Energy  |  from ibtimes.co.uk

As the world's major emerging economies, China and Russia will continue to deepen bilateral cooperation to promote common development, Zhong Shan, vice minister of commerce, wrote in an article to be published Friday by the People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

• Date: 26.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 26.04.2012  |  External Relations  |  from english.cntv.cn

Azerbaijani ambassador to Tajikistan Abbasali Hasanov has presented his credentials to President Emomali Rahmon.

• Date: 26.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 26.04.2012  |  External Relations  |  from news.az