Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev met here Thursday and declared they were ready to further advance bilateral relations and cooperation.

• Date: 11.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

President Hu Jintao and his Uzbek counterpart pledged on Wednesday to jointly combat terrorism, a major concern for both countries.

• Date: 10.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chinadaily.com.cn/

The UN Security Council voted in favor of new, tougher sanctions against Iran on Wednesday, scuttling a deal forged by Turkey and Brazil that would have let it exchange nuclear material for nuclear fuel from abroad.

• Date: 10.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Deutsche Welle

Suspected militants have attacked a NATO convoy outside Pakistan's capital Islamabad, killing at least seven people. The convoy was carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. But similar attacks in the past have been blamed on the Taliban.

• Date: 10.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.06.2010  |  Security  |  from Deutsche Welle

Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran convened at a security summit meeting in Istanbul on Tuesday in a display of regional power that appeared to be calculated to test the United States just one day before a scheduled U.S.-backed debate in the U.N. Security Council on imposing tighter sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.

• Date: 09.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from seattletimes.com

Iran faces its toughest sanctions for failing to comply with UN demands over its nuclear enrichment, the US says.

• Date: 09.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

Today, as we witness the rapid transformation of the global political and economic systems, it is time to reassess Russia’s economic relations with Arab countries.

• Date: 09.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from themoscowtimes.com

The environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has put offshore drilling operations in the Caspian Sea under fresh scrutiny.

• Date: 09.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from bbc.co.uk