Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has once again returned to the idea of creating a common grain pool of three countries: Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia, the Ukrainian prime minister's spokesman, Vitaliy Lukyanenko, said in Astana on Thursday.

• Date: 24.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.11.2011  |  External Relations  |  from kyivpost.com

EU Foreign Ministers met in Brussels on 14-15 November to discuss Afghanistan, Middle East and North Africa, Iran and Somalia. Minister for Europe David Lidington reported the outcome to Parliament.

• Date: 22.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.11.2011  |  External Relations  |  from fco.gov.uk

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai and Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov Igor Ivanovich met in Hanoi on Monday for their meeting as co-chairs of the Vietnam-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission for Economic, Trade, Scientific and Technical Cooperation (CETSTC).

• Date: 22.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.11.2011  |  External Relations  |  from cri.cn

Turkmenistan has never and is not politicising economic cooperation, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov said in an interview with Chinese media outlets published locally.

• Date: 22.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.11.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

The Philippines on Monday expressed its interest in acquiring military helicopters, boats and aircraft from South Korea as part of efforts to boost its military capabilities amid growing tensions with China in the disputed South China Sea.

• Date: 21.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.11.2011  |  External Relations  |  from monstersandcritics.com

Tehran's Foreign Minister Salehi has played down talk of withdrawing from IAEA or NPT, but parliament speaker adamant about reconsidering cooperation in light of recent damning report.

• Date: 21.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.11.2011  |  External Relations  |  from haaretz.com

Turkmenistan has issued an angry response to Russian scepticism over the size of its natural gas reserves and reinforced its ambition to find new energy markets in Asia and Europe that will cut its dependence on the Kremlin.

• Date: 21.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.11.2011  |  Energy  |  from reuters.com

Iranian media on Saturday described a resolution from the U.N. nuclear watchdog expressing "deep and increasing concern" about the country's atomic programme as a victory, celebrating the fact it does not call for new U.N. sanctions.

• Date: 19.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 19.11.2011  |  Energy  |  from uk.reuters.com