Turkey’s facilitator role in nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West (specifically the P5+1) has resumed with some change in form. After much noise and clatter after Turkey voted “no” to the United Nations Security Council’s resolution on a number of sanctions against Iran, the parties chose İstanbul as the venue for their meeting slated for late January 2011, which confirms Turkey’s objective and neutral role and position in these talks.

• Date: 27.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from todayszaman.com

Firms from Korea, Japan and Russia will make a joint bid in January for the rights to develop a large coal mine in Mongolia.

• Date: 27.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from chosun.com

Kyrgyz Prime Minister set off on a working trip to Russia. It is a first foreign trip of Almazbek Atambayev in the status of the head of the Kyrgyz Government

• Date: 27.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

In public appearances, Turkmenistan's leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov tends to maintain a stern visage, a look befitting a man who heads one of the most repressive states on earth.

• Date: 25.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from eurasianet.org

It is believed in the West that India’s cooperation with the world’s leading powers is aimed at counterbalancing China. But this thesis is not entirely applicable to Russian-Indian relations. India and Russia, both highly influential countries, advocate a multipolar world and are against the domination of any one state.

• Date: 24.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from rian.ru

Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan told APA that President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov issued an executive order on December 23 to appoint Toyli Komekov as ambassador to Azerbaijan. The order has been published in today’s newspapers.

• Date: 24.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from apa.az

The bilateral Turkmen-Turkish talks on economic cooperation may be held within the summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) scheduled for these days in Istanbul (Turkey), an official Turkmen source said.

• Date: 23.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

The China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) disclosed Wednesday that the second phase of the China-Kazakhstan gas pipeline has begun construction in Kazakhstan.

• Date: 23.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from chinadaily.com.cn