India's government has revoked the visa of a Japanese anti-nuclear activist who was scheduled to visit during the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.  Nuclear energy opponents say the move fits a pattern of seeking to stifle criticism of India's rapid push toward nuclear power.

• Date: 09.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 09.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from voanews.com

Members of several environmental organizations gathered in Bulgaria's capital Sofia for a silent protest to mark the upcoming first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

• Date: 09.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 09.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com

“The trilateral meeting of Azerbaijani, Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers in Nakhchivan is significant both from regional and international standpoint”, said Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mahammadbaghir Bahrami, APA reports. He underlined the importance of the meeting in Nakhchivan.

• Date: 09.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 09.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from en.apa.az

A group of six world powers has called on Iran to enter talks on its controversial nuclear program without preconditions.

• Date: 08.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 07.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from blogs.voanews.com

A meeting with an Iranian delegation headed by the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Seyyed Mohammad Hoseini, who arrived in Ashgabat during the Days of Iranian Culture in Turkmenistan, has been held at the Foreign Ministry, the Turkmen embassy in Azerbaijan said.

• Date: 06.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 06.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from en.trend.az

Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev discussed issues of bilateral cooperation in a telephone conversation on Tuesday.

• Date: 06.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 06.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from pda.trend.az

Kyrgyzstan is ready to discuss the oil and gas development project with Azerbaijan, head of the State Agency for Geology and Mineral Resources of the Kyrgyz Government Uchkunbek Tashbaev said during a meeting with SOCAR VP David Mammadov.

• Date: 05.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 05.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from pda.trend.az

Kazakhstan attaches utmost importance to strengthening the role of the United Nations in the international arena and the implementation of its projects and programmes in the country. In twenty years since Kazakhstan's accession to the UN on March 2, 1992, the two sides have established strong relations that continue to grow and produce important results.

• Date: 05.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 05.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from inform.kz