North Korea has agreed with the United States to suspend major elements of its atomic weapons programme in a surprise breakthrough that could pave the way for the resumption of long-stalled nuclear disarmament talks with the secretive state.

• Date: 01.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 01.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Turkmenistan and Turkey have signed a package of intergovernmental agreements after negotiations at the highest level in Ankara, an official Turkmen source said on Thursday.

• Date: 01.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 01.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from en.trend.az

Military officials of Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan and China discussed arms reduction at the border during a special seminar in Astana, the press-service of the Kazakh Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.

• Date: 29.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 29.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from pda.trend.az

Tajikistan's ambassador to Russia says his country expects Russia to pay rent for bases it uses on Tajik territory.

• Date: 29.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 29.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from rferl.org

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, re-elected to his post in elections earlier this month with 97 percent of votes, has praised his country’s ties with Turkey.

• Date: 29.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 29.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from turkishpress.com

Azerbaijan has filed a lawsuit against Armenia in the Secretariat of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (ESPOO) for failing to meet convention requirements while building a new nuclear reactor in Armenia, Environmental and Environmental Policy Department head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources Rasim Sattarzadeh told Trend on Tuesday.

• Date: 28.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 28.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from pda.trend.az

Russia and Kazakhstan set up the work on the agreement on western sector of the Russian-Kazakh state border demarcation, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Tuesday following the regular meeting of the joint Russian-Kazakh demarcation commission, held in Almaty on Feb. 13-17.

• Date: 28.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 28.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from pda.trend.az

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov has praised his country's ties with Turkey, saying they amount to a strategic partnership, and called Turkey and Turkmenistan “one nation with two states.

• Date: 28.02.2012  |  Published on EGF: 28.02.2012  |  External Relations  |  from todayszaman.com