Japanese officials are readying a new approach to stabilizing a reactor at a nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami after discovering a leak from the containment vessel of enough radioactive water to fill an Olympic swimming pool.

• Date: 16.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.05.2011  |  Energy  |  from chinapost.com.tw

Ukraine will cut the volume of natural gas purchase from Russia in the second half of this year, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.

• Date: 14.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2011  |  Energy  |  from interfax.com.ua

On Wednesday, within discussions on main aspects of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union at the plenary meeting of the European Parliament, a Swedish MP, Anna Ibrisagic in her speech noted the worsening of situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

• Date: 14.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

The Government of the Republic of Tajikistan provided us with relief money of 120,000 US dollars (approximately 1 million yen) regarding the Great East Japan Earthquake.

• Date: 14.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2011  |  External Relations  |  from presstrust.com

Russia is attempting to suppress a United Nations report that says Iran has been breaking a U.N. arms embargo by shipping weapons to Syria, Western diplomats said Thursday.

• Date: 13.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2011  |  External Relations  |  from msn.com

Approaches of the European Parliament to Belarus are unacceptable and contrary to the principles of good neighborliness, which destabilizes situation in the country, Belarusian Foreign Ministry official said

• Date: 13.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2011  |  External Relations  |  from People's Daily

Russia and Pakistan have agreed to give top priority to their joint fight against terrorism and drug trafficking and to expand economic ties between the two countries.

• Date: 13.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2011  |  External Relations  |  from hindu.com

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) signed a provisional Rs.1,500 crore deal with the government of Iraq earlier this month, the latest of several efforts by state-owned companies to engage with oil and gas-rich countries in West Asia that have well over half of the world’s proven reserves of crude oil and a little over a third of global gas reserves.

• Date: 13.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2011  |  Energy  |  from livemint.com