On Monday Almaty hosted the first meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry under the chairmanship of Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov, Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Altai Abibullayev said at a news briefing in Astana.

• Date: 18.06.2012  |  Published on EGF: 18.06.2012  |  External Relations  |  from en.trend.az

Stability in South Asia will remain a "distant dream" as long as the Kashmir issue remains unresolved and Pakistan must strive for a "just solution" of the dispute, the country's second-highest ranking military official has said.

• Date: 16.06.2012  |  Published on EGF: 16.06.2012  |  External Relations  |  from zeenews.india.com

Tajikistan and Iran last week concluded the ninth meeting of the Joint Economic Commission in Tehran, where the two countries signed five agreements in the hydroelectric, oil and health sectors.

• Date: 15.06.2012  |  Published on EGF: 15.06.2012  |  External Relations  |  from kodoom.com

Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov and his Afghan counterpart Dr. Zalmay Rassoul discussed the main directions of developing bilateral relations and prospects of further trade, economic and investment cooperation, the Kazakh Foreign Minister reported.

• Date: 14.06.2012  |  Published on EGF: 14.06.2012  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Turkmenistan and China have signed a deal making good on Turkmenistan President Gurbanbuly Berdimuhamedow's earlier promise to increase his country's natural gas shipments to China to 65 billion cubic meters per year (bcm/y).

• Date: 14.06.2012  |  Published on EGF: 14.06.2012  |  Energy  |  from wn.com

The United States is seeing a dramatic surge in oil and gas production and could overtake the world's biggest producers, Russia and Saudi Arabia, in another decade, a US official said here Tuesday.

• Date: 13.06.2012  |  Published on EGF: 13.06.2012  |  Energy  |  from timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday accused the United States of supplying weapons to Syria's rebels after Hillary Clinton said Moscow was supplying the Assad regime with "attack helicopters".

• Date: 13.06.2012  |  Published on EGF: 13.06.2012  |  External Relations  |  from telegraph.co.uk

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili met in Batumi with Irish Foreign Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-office Eamon Gilmore.

• Date: 13.06.2012  |  Published on EGF: 13.06.2012  |  External Relations  |  from en.trend.az