Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov has today received ambassador of Uzbekistan to Azerbaijan Ismatilla Ergashev who has completed his diplomatic mission in the country the Ministry's press-service told Trend on Monday.

• Date: 13.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 13.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from pda.trend.az

A defiant Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Saturday to inaugurate "important nuclear projects" within days and lashed out at Israel, saying the "story" of the Holocaust underpinning its existence had been "smashed".

• Date: 11.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 11.02.2012  |  Energy  |  from hindustantimes.com

A group of European vote monitors say they have been denied a meeting with Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin because of his busy schedule

• Date: 11.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 11.02.2012  |  Markets  |  from rferl.org

NATO special representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai visited Azerbaijan on February 11 to discuss routes from NATO cargo to, and from Afghanistan.

• Date: 11.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 11.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from rferl.org

"We are ready, upon official request from Russia, to grant extra gas to Europe," said Ukraine's Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko. In his interview to CNN, the Ukrainian minister explained that currently Ukraine receives 400 million cubic meters of gas per day on its eastern border instead of the required 500 million due to extremely cold weather in Russia. This caused a drop in the amount of gas Europe received through Ukrainian pipeline.

• Date: 10.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 10.02.2012  |  Energy  |  from http://www.prnewswire.com/

Afflicted by an unusually cold spell, and with diplomatic tensions in its neighbourhood adding pressure on energy supplies, the European Commission is backing future gas deliveries from Azerbaijan, irrespective of the pipeline used, Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told dpa in an interview conducted in Brussels this week.

• Date: 10.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 10.02.2012  |  Energy  |  from europeonline-magazine.eu

Events dedicated to the 20th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Turkmenistan and China are ongoing in Ashgabat, Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported on Friday.

• Date: 10.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 10.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Azerbaijan restarted natural gas deliveries on Thursday to Turkey from its giant Shah Deniz field, a spokeswoman for operator BP told Reuters.

• Date: 09.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 09.02.2012  |  Energy  |  from af.reuters.com