Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili held bilateral meetings with the leaders of European states and international organisations within the UN General Assembly session in New York.

• September 26, 2012

The European Union and the United States have urged Ukraine to review the updated draft Energy Strategy of Ukraine for the period of up to 2030, saying the document is based on unrealistic projections of the development of the national economy, is not consistent with other legislation, and does not account for all of the international obligations of the state.

• September 26, 2012

This decade will be a transformational one for Russia and Japan. Both countries are facing an uncertain future as Asia continues to morph into the most strategically important region in the world.

• September 26, 2012

Tajikistan highly evaluates the role of the Kyrgyz Parliament in the democratization of the country's society, Asia-Plus reported on Tuesday with reference to Tajik Parliament's lower chamber speaker Shukurdjon Zukhurov as saying.

• September 25, 2012

UK Military Academy and Azerbaijani Defense Ministry hold joint military trainings on “Protection management within wide security context” in Baku. Press service of the Ministry told APA that the military servicemen of the Defense Ministry, the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Security Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Internal Forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Special State Protection as well as the State Protection Service are participating in the trainings.

• September 25, 2012

President Pranab Mukherjee will pay a three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir from Wednesday, during which he will attend the University of Kashmir convocation. This will be Mukherjee's maiden visit to the state since he assumed the office of head of the state in July.

• September 25, 2012

Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjou has said that 130 trillion rials (some $10.6 billion) is needed to complete 270 semi-finished projects in the fields of dam and power plant building, water and wastewater treatment.

• September 24, 2012

Ukraine will provide reliable energy transit to the European Union, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry quoted Minister Yuriy Boiko. The minister gave the assurances at the Brussels meeting with European Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger on Friday, September 21. Boiko stressed that Ukraine had created every condition for the uninterrupted transit of Russian gas to Europe.

• September 24, 2012