Iran plans to sign some new gas export contracts in the near future, the Iranian oil minister announced.

• Date: 15.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 15.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has apparently ruled out building a subsea Sakhalin-Japan natural gas pipeline. That is not preventing continued talks on the ambitious project, which remains a bargaining tool in Russia's gas-price negotiations with China.

• Date: 14.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from theinnoplex.com

Turkmenistan has all the prerequisites to increase the volume of gas production and exports in the coming years, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov said in his message on the occasion of the Day of Workers of Oil and Gas Industry and Geology, celebrated on Friday.

• Date: 14.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from thehindu.com

A broad defence cooperation agreement was among five pacts signed following delegation-level talks between the visiting Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday.

• Date: 13.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 13.12.2012  |  External Relations  |  from thehindu.com

The meeting of the CIS Council of the Heads of State held in Ashgabat has fundamentally changed the balance of power in the CIS. Azerbaijani sources say that President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov of Turkmenistan has again reformatted the country’s foreign policy.

• Date: 12.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 12.12.2012  |  External Relations  |  from abc.az

he decision on the withdrawal of Uzbekistan from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) may be made on December 19. The next meeting of the heads of the CSTO member states will be held on this date in Moscow, APA reports quoting the official website of the organization. Besides the other issues, Uzbekistan’s application on the suspension of its activity in the organization has been also included in the agenda of the meeting. For this reason, Uzbekistan sent the relevant note to the CSTO Secretariat in June.

• Date: 12.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 12.12.2012  |  External Relations  |  from apa.az

If geopolitics were a game of cards, Russia would be holding onto its stack for as long as possible.

• Date: 11.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 11.12.2012  |  Markets  |  from examiner.com

Azerbaijan in foreign policy should above all be based on its national interests.

• Date: 11.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 11.12.2012  |  Markets  |  from news.az