Sofia and Podgorica are considering setting up a joint company for the transfer of electricity to Italy after talks were held between Montenegrin Prime Minister Igor Luksic Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov in Sofia.

• Date: 25.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 25.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from balkaninsight.com

U.S. and North Korean diplomats began talks Monday on Pyongyang's nuclear program, the second direct encounter between the two sides in less than three months.

• Date: 24.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from cbc.ca

Managing director of the National Iranian Gas Exports Company (NIGC) announced Iran's readiness to transit Turkmenistan's natural gas to Europe saying that foreign companies have confessed inefficiency of Nabucco Pipeline.

• Date: 24.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a resolution by approving the major directions of developing the industrial sector of the Mary region, an official Turkmen source said on Monday.

• Date: 24.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from smart-grid.tmcnet.com

Tajikistan considers the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit as an important political event for the future cooperation between the two countries, Tajikistan's Foreign Affairs Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi said on Saturday.

• Date: 22.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from en.rian.ru

A Czech delegation headed by chairman of the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitions of the Senate of the Czech Republic Jaromir Ermar is in Ashgabat, the Turkmen government said.

• Date: 22.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from en.trend.az

Pakistan, Morocco, Togo and Guatemala were elected on Friday to the 15-nation UN Security Council for 2012 and 2013, and Islamabad's envoy said he looked forward to working with fellow council member India. The race for a fifth council seat, representing Eastern Europe, was adjourned until Monday after neither of the two candidates, Azerbaijan and Slovenia, was able to win a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly after nine votes.

• Date: 22.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from haaretz.com

One day after delivering a bizarre and inflammatory speech at the United Nations in New York, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his government is in discussions with Russia about constructing another nuclear power plant in Iran.

• Date: 21.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from ibtimes.com