Georgia is waiting for many-billion investments into its power economy: it wants to build 15 hydroelectric power stations and become the largest electrical energy exporter in the region, Business-Georgia reports.

• Date: 08.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 08.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from news.az

An updated report commissioned by French President Nicolas Sarkozy will recommend that the Group of 20 economies undergo a major structural overhaul while also expanding the powers of the International Monetary Fund to deal with financial crises, according to one of the report's authors.
France, which holds the G-20's rotating presidency this year, has made overhauling the international monetary system, damping the volatility of commodities prices and improving global governance its top priorities. The report's authors include former IMF managing directors Michel Camdessus and Horst Kohler as well as former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. They will present their proposals to French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde in advance of the Feb. 18-19 meeting of finance ministers from the G-20 industrialized and developing nations. The set of recommendations will expand on a report presented to Sarkozy two weeks ago.

• Date: 08.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 08.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from insurancejournal.com

A new U.S.-Russia nuclear-arms-control treaty went into effect Saturday, securing a key foreign-policy goal of President Obama and raising hopes among officials on both sides that it will provide the impetus for Moscow and Washington to negotiate further reductions.

• Date: 07.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from seattletimes.com

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan led a large rally Monday demanding the return of several islands held by Russia since the end of World War II and calling the recent visit there by Russia's president an outrage.

• Date: 07.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from washingtonpost.com

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousus Raza Gilani’s government recently managed to maintain a majority after hectic backroom bargaining with its coalition partners.

• Date: 07.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.02.2011  |  Markets  |  from gorkhapatra.org.np

A square, an angry crowd, banners, the bitter smell of burning, the grinding noise of manoeuvring tanks, blood: this time it's Cairo, but for the last three decades we have seen similar images from a range of autocracies under threat, from the Shah's Tehran, Deng Xiaoping's Beijing and Ceausescu's Bucharest to the uprisings of the last couple of years in Iran, Tunisia, and now Egypt.

• Date: 07.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from dailyreckoning.com.au

A square, an angry crowd, banners, the bitter smell of burning, the grinding noise of manoeuvring tanks, blood: this time it's Cairo, but for the last three decades we have seen similar images from a range of autocracies under threat, from the Shah's Tehran, Deng Xiaoping's Beijing and Ceausescu's Bucharest to the uprisings of the last couple of years in Iran, Tunisia, and now Egypt.

• Date: 07.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from telegraph.co.uk

A delegation from Turkmenistan’s state-owned gas company will be coming here on Monday for bilateral discussions on the gas sales purchase agreement (GSPA) for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) pipeline.

• Date: 05.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from business-standard.com