The Seimas speaker Tuesday started her working visit to Tokyo by meeting Japan's trade minister. During the meeting, Irena Degutiene introduced Minister Yukio Edano to opportunities for cooperation with Lithuania, called for signing the agreement on the elimination of double taxation.

• Date: 04.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Assistant Secretary Geoffrey Pyatt of Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs today stressed that U.S. and India are committed to keep the world safe from nuclear weapons.

• Date: 03.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from newsblaze.com

France's energy giant EDF has refused a Russian offer to build a nuclear power plant, Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said after meeting his French counterpart Francois Fillon.

• Date: 03.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from expatica.com

Turkey has decided that it will not renew for another five years a 25-year-old natural gas deal with Russia on the grounds that the energy-rich country’s supplier Gazprom has declined to discount the natural gas it sells to Turkey via the Russia-Turkey Western Pipeline, Today’s Zaman reported.

• Date: 03.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from apa.az

The Russian Federation’s ambassador to Belarus Alekhandr Surikov told reporters in the Belarusian capital Minsk that a draft Belarusian-Russian interstate agreement on the construction of a new 2,400 megawatt nuclear power plant for Belarus will be ready in October.

• Date: 01.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from oilprice.com

Belarus withdrew Friday from a diplomatic summit meeting aimed at improving ties between the European Union and its former Soviet neighbors, complaining of “discrimination.”

• Date: 01.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

The European Union is interested in attracting Kazakh investments to purchase Eurobonds and other debt instruments of European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) backed by the guarantees of eurozone states, Kazinform reported.

• Date: 01.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Polish capital Warsaw hosts the summit of the European Union’s 'Eastern Partnership'

• Date: 30.09.2011  |  Published on EGF: 30.09.2011  |  External Relations  |  from siamdailynews.com