A meeting with an Iranian delegation headed by the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Seyyed Mohammad Hoseini, who arrived in Ashgabat during the Days of Iranian Culture in Turkmenistan, has been held at the Foreign Ministry, the Turkmen embassy in Azerbaijan said.

• Date: 06.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 06.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from en.trend.az

Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev discussed issues of bilateral cooperation in a telephone conversation on Tuesday.

• Date: 06.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 06.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from pda.trend.az

Russia, the world's top crude producer, rejected a Chinese request for more Siberian pipeline oil, saying the link is already pumping at full capacity and additional volumes are not available, two Russian state industry sources told Reuters.

• Date: 05.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 05.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from reuters.com

Kyrgyzstan is ready to discuss the oil and gas development project with Azerbaijan, head of the State Agency for Geology and Mineral Resources of the Kyrgyz Government Uchkunbek Tashbaev said during a meeting with SOCAR VP David Mammadov.

• Date: 05.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 05.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from pda.trend.az

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