Iran is optimistic that talks in Baghdad next month will make progress toward resolving its nuclear dispute with world powers, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday.

• Date: 23.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 23.04.2012  |  Energy  |  from uk.reuters.com

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Tajikistan for talks with President Emomali Rahmon and other Tajik government officials.

• Date: 23.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 23.04.2012  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

Kazakhstan stands for peacefully resolving the situation over Iran, Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov said today.

• Date: 23.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 23.04.2012  |  External Relations  |  from en.trend.az

India and Iran have had a long relationship stretching back to ancient times. Iranian (or Persian) influence has produced a deep imprint upon Indian art, poetry, architecture and literature. With periodic invasions, military adventures and constant cross-migrations between the two empires, the people of Iran and northern India share many cultural and ethnic characteristics.

• Date: 21.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 21.04.2012  |  Energy  |  from ibtimes.com

“Azerbaijan shares the concern of the international community on increasing nuclear threats and risks.

• Date: 21.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 21.04.2012  |  Energy  |  from en.apa.az

At a government meeting in Ashgabat a report on preparations for the forthcoming official visit of Turkmen delegation headed by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to the Republic of Belarus was heard, the Turkmen government said on Saturday.

• Date: 21.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 21.04.2012  |  External Relations  |  from en.trend.az

Turkish state-owned company EÜAŞ and Canada's Candu have signed an agreement today to build nuclear power plant in Turkey TRT Haber TV channel said on Friday.

• Date: 20.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 20.04.2012  |  Energy  |  from en.trend.az

The decision by the National Commission on regulation the energy sector to give equal access to Ukraine’s gas-pipelines and underground reservoirs to private companies is bad news for Russia’s Gazprom and actually makes senseless the talks on creating a bilateral consortium between Russia and Ukraine Komersant-Ukrayiny reports Apr. 21.

• Date: 20.04.2012  |  Published on EGF: 20.04.2012  |  Energy  |  from zik.ua