President Barack Obama cautioned Pakistan on Thursday that it is jeopardizing long-term relations with the United States - including billions of dollars in military and civilian aid - by maintaining ties with insurgent groups that are fighting U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan.

• Date: 07.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from miamiherald.com

The Kazakh Unified Energy System has recorded non-contractual power flows from Uzbekistan since September, Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company KEGOC said.

• Date: 07.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from http://pda.trend.az/

Lithuanian Seimas speaker, currently on a visit to Japan, discussed parliamentary controls over the energy sector with the speaker of Japan's House of Representatives, Takahiro Yokomichi, the press service of the Seimas said. At the meeting, Irena Degutiene inquired her counterpart about Japan's attitude to the situation and prospects of nuclear energy, parliamentary controls over the energy sector.

• Date: 07.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Governments in the West may have read with alarm that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wanted to build a Eurasian Union out of the former Soviet bloc but in Kazakhstan the news was welcomed.

• Date: 06.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 06.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from telegraph.co.uk

This story by Igor Tomberg, Director of Energy and Transit Studies Center of the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Science, professor at the Moscow State Foreign Relations Institute of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Strategic Culture Foundation expert, was published in International Affairs magazine.

• Date: 06.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 06.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from en.rian.ru

Bulgaria's state-run power grid operator has tabled a lawsuit against Russia's state nuclear company Atomstroyexport over delayed payments on the planned Belene nuclear plant.

• Date: 06.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 06.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has outlined a proposal to set up a so-called "Eurasian Union" of former Soviet states that would build on an existing Customs Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan.

• Date: 05.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from voanews.com

Britain’s Lloyd's Register, well known for its maritime interests, is reportedly close to signing a nuclear agreement with India.

• Date: 05.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from oilprice.com