An exact date has been set for a long-planned official visit to Turkey by Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon, and the two-day visit will take place in mid-December in reciprocation of Turkish President Abdullah Gul’s visit to Dushanbe in May 2009.

• Date: 27.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from news.az

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday lashed out at European Union laws aimed at liberalising the continent's energy market, saying they hinder investment and amount to uncivilised 'robbery'.

• Date: 27.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from lse.co.uk

SOCAR has announced the discovery of a huge gas field Umid in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea, SOCAR president Rovnag Abdullayev said.

• Date: 26.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

Russia responded angrily on Thursday to a proposal that would deny European visas to a list of 60 officials who have been implicated in the death of Sergei L. Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in pretrial detention in Moscow last year.

• Date: 26.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

Relations between Latvia and Belgium are good, however, there is still much potential for closer economic ties between the two countries, new Foreign Minister Girts Valdis Kristovskis said yesterday during a meeting with the Belgian Ambassador to Latvia Leopold Merckx, who arrived on an introductory visit.

• Date: 26.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from baltic-course.com

This past weekend the world witnessed an event that until recently would have seemed inconceivable: A Russian head of state attended a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

• Date: 26.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from opednews.com

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Thursday that his country is firmly committed to pushing on with normalising ties with Armenia after nearly a century of bitterness over World War I-era massacres.

• Date: 26.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news

Polish Energy Group (PGE) has expressed its interest in joining Lithuania's new nuclear power plant Visaginas project, The Lithuania Tribune reports.

• Date: 25.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from baltic-course.com