Kazakhstan attaches utmost importance to strengthening the role of the United Nations in the international arena and the implementation of its projects and programmes in the country. In twenty years since Kazakhstan's accession to the UN on March 2, 1992, the two sides have established strong relations that continue to grow and produce important results.

• Date: 05.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 05.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from inform.kz

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has rejected the terms of a Russian offer for the two sides to restore diplomatic relations for the first time since their 2008 war over a breakaway Georgian republic.

• Date: 03.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 03.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from rferl.org

Unless Ukraine lifts its ban of Belarusian milk and meat, Minsk threatens to impose a total ban on Ukrainian export to this country, Ukraine agriculture ministry March 3 website release runs.

• Date: 03.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 03.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from zik.ua

The Russian Defense Ministry has settled its debt to Kyrgyzstan for keeping its military bases in that country, the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry told Interfax on Saturday.

• Date: 03.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 03.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from interfax.com

Islamabad, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked the US not to interfere in Pakistan’s internal matters.
Gilani insisted that Pakistan is a sovereign nation, and therefore it would make decisions which served its interests, The Nation reports.

• Date: 02.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 02.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from pakistan.onepakistan.com

Russia and China do not want armed intervention in Syria? Good deal! There was never any question, west side, repeat the Libyan episode in 2011. Causing blockage of Russia and China to the UN, it is not only the fear of a regime change in Damascus by international armed intervention that nobody wants. It is the fear of a regime change under external pressure whatsoever, whether diplomatic pressure, threats of financial penalties or energy.

• Date: 02.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 02.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from allvoices.com

Kazakh officials hope that recent trade deals with Germany and France will lead to a trade pact with the European Union that will fuel the Central Asian nation’s economic development.

• Date: 02.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 02.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from washingtontimes.com

China has welcomed North Korea's agreement to freeze nuclear activities in return for US food aid, a deal that raised cautious hopes of an easing of tensions under Pyongyang's new young leader.

• Date: 01.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 01.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from telegraph.co.uk