Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko convened the third session of the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Commission on February 15 in Washington, DC. The Commission's aim is to further strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries.

• Date: 17.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from newsblaze.com

Russia and Britain engaged in a war of words over the people power protests across the Middle East as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blasted Western support for demonstrations as counterproductive.

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from telegraph.co.uk

Ukraine aims to attract private investment in government-run coal mines to increase production, Deputy Coal and Energy Minister Ihor Popovych said. The government has drawn up investment plans for state mines in 2011 envisaging 5.5 billion hryvnia ($691 million) of spending, Popovych said in an interview published today by official government newspaper Uryadovyi Kurier.

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

Four Central European countries that make up the Visegrad alliance on Tuesday made supporting democracy and human rights in Belarus one of its leading joint concerns.

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from monstersandcritics.com

Poland will probably import electric energy from the Russian nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad Oblast which is currently under construction

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from warsawvoice.pl

Japan and India signed a free trade pact Wednesday under which the high-tech nation and the South Asian giant pledged to scrap tariffs on 94 percent of goods within a decade

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news

Turkmenistan is seeking a price linked fuel oil or naphtha for the natural gas it plans to sell to India through a USD 7.6 billion pipeline passing through Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• Date: 15.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from Yahoo! news

Iran’s hostile regime has been one of the chief beneficiaries of the political turmoil that has convulsed Egypt and Tunisia, which distracted the United States and other countries from the ongoing standoff over Iran’s nuclear program.

• Date: 15.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from heritage.org