In keeping with its new focus on Central Asian nations, Indian Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh is on a three-day visit to Uzbekistan, where he held a free-wheeling discussion with its military leadership, seeking to enhance defence relations and furthering existing military exchanges, officers said here

• Date: 19.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 19.11.2011  |  External Relations  |  from deccanherald.com

Italy, Japan and 10 other countries joined in on the draft resolution by the Iran Six that is expected to be submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors on Friday.

• Date: 18.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.11.2011  |  External Relations  |  from rian.ru

Defense ministers Safar Abiyev and Mikhail Yejel discussed the issues of bilateral cooperation, press service of the Ukrainian defense ministry said. They signed the bilateral cooperation and action plans for 2012.

• Date: 18.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.11.2011  |  External Relations  |  from apa.az

Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan on Friday signed a decree to set up a joint body to oversee and regulate the economy and trade in the three nations, paving the way for an economic union of the three former Soviet republics.

• Date: 18.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.11.2011  |  External Relations  |  from washingtonpost.com

The United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Thursday it wanted to send representatives to Iran to seek answers from the Islamic republic about a report containing intelligence that Tehran has worked on developing a nuclear weapon, dpa reported.

• Date: 17.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.11.2011  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

Azerbaijan and Turkey have started work on a trans-Anatolian pipeline project to carry Azeri gas across Turkey, the president of Azeri state energy company SOCAR Rovnag Abdullayev said on Thursday.

• Date: 17.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.11.2011  |  Energy  |  from reuters.com

Russia will support Kazakhstan and Belarus in their efforts to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) after Moscow itself joins the trade bloc, Russia's top WTO negotiator Maxim Medvedkov said

• Date: 17.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.11.2011  |  Energy  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday denied pressuring Australia to reverse a ban on selling uranium to India but said he would "watch with interest" how the issue played out.

• Date: 16.11.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.11.2011  |  Energy  |  from indiatimes.com