Kazakh and Uzbek state gas companies Kaztransgaz and Uztransgaz may stop gas supplies to Kyrgyzstan if the country does not pay off the debt for gas supplies till Feb. 10, KyrTAG quoted Eugenie Orlenko, deputy director of Kyrgyzgaz Company, as saying on Friday.

• Date: 03.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 03.02.2012  |  Energy  |  from pda.trend.az

A speech by High Representative Catherine Ashton in the European Parliament yesterday (1 February) provided a rare insight on talks with Europe's largest neighbour ahead of the Russian presidential elections in March.

• Date: 02.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 02.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from euractiv.com

Ukraine is taking Russian gas at a pace of 60 billion cubic metres (bcm) a year, above its contracted levels, Gazprom said on Thursday amid reports of decreasing gas supplies to Europe.

• Date: 02.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 02.02.2012  |  Energy  |  from af.reuters.com

Supply of Russian gas to Slovakia dropped by 30 percent on Thursday, the Slovak gas utility Slovensky Plynarensky Priemysel (SPP) said, adding it can still secure full deliveries for all clients.

• Date: 02.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 02.02.2012  |  Energy  |  from reuters.com

Japan’s Atomic Energy Agency says a nuclear reactor in suburban Beijing had an accident last October and has stopped operating since then. Chinese authorities did not report the accident.

• Date: 01.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 01.02.2012  |  Energy  |  from theepochtimes.com

Head of Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Vladimir Zhirinovsky deemed Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement impossible without Russian mediation, suggesting Armenia and Azerbaijan should join Russia as a South Caucasian federal region to resolve the issue.

• Date: 01.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 01.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from panarmenian.net

Five new ambassadors for Bulgaria's diplomatic service have been formally proposed by the Bulgarian cabinet to President Rosen Plevneliev for approval.

• Date: 01.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 01.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from novinite.com

Pakistan Textile Minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin on Tuesday confirmed that the textile industry in Pakistan is gradually shifting to Bangladesh to seek more profit, while the industry leaders argue that there relocation was because of electricity and gas outages prevailing in Pakistan.

• Date: 31.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 31.01.2012  |  External Relations  |  from pkonweb.com