President Barack Obama promised in a letter released on Monday to tackle "serious issues" straining relations with Azerbaijan, an important link in Afghan supply lines and energy export routes to the West.

• Date: 08.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 08.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from reuters.com

Turkey and Azerbaijan signed a deal on Monday that will provide 11 billion cubic meters (388 billion cubic feet) of Azeri natural gas a year to Turkey beginning as early as 2016

• Date: 08.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 08.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from washingtonpost.com

President Hu Jintao's participation at the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent testifies to China's long-term commitment toward a sustained, healthy and stable development of the organization.

• Date: 08.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 08.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

Iran hopes to finalise a deal this week for a much-delayed pipeline to export natural gas to Pakistan by 2015, an energy official said on Sunday.

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from expressbuzz.com

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here today to express U.S. gratitude to this former Soviet republic on the western shore of the Caspian Sea for its contributions to the coalition’s efforts in Afghanistan.

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from globalsecurity.org

Israel has begun expelling the latest group of activists detained for trying to break the Gaza blockade. Meanwhile, Israel's ambassador to the US has rejected a probe into an earlier deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla.

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  Security  |  from Deutsche Welle

While its relations with Israel continue to plummet to new depths in the wake of the Gaza flotilla raid, Turkey is considering how to handle the US as Washington tries to balance its ties with Jerusalem and Ankara.

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Deutsche Welle

By Richard Galpin BBC News, Moscow Russia pumps oil from Kazakhstan to a Black Sea port for export A year ago, the Kremlin issued a stark warning: that growing competition for control of global energy resources could spark wars on Russia's borders,

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from http://www.bbc.co.uk/