Officially visiting the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, reported BC press service of Lithuanian president.

• Date: 17.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Russia understands the reasons behind Bulgaria's decision to suspend the joint construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline and to halt the construction of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant, Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria Yuri Isakov said on Wednesday.

• Date: 17.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from peopledaily.com.cn

Following a US report about Afghanistan's valuable mineral resources, the Afghan government is gearing up to seek foreign investment and a public bid to extract these minerals is expected to start later this year.

• Date: 17.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 17.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from Deutsche Welle

China announced in late April the sale of two nuclear reactors to Pakistan. This deal is clearly against the guidelines of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and the spirit if not the letter of the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT)

• Date: 15.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 16.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from atimes.com

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said on Friday that Bulgaria was “giving up” on the billion-.5 billion Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project decision, and that construction on the planned Belene nuclear power plant had been suspended.

• Date: 15.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 16.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com

China and Kazakhstan have agreed to build and finance a gas pipeline and deepen cooperation in atomic energy, giving Beijing greater access to Astana's vast uranium resources.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from chennaionline.com

The sites for two new nuclear power plants, in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and in Belarus, were selected with no environmental assessment and without consulting neighboring countries, Lithuania's president said on Monday.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru

Iran has formally signed a $7.6-billion cross-border pipeline deal to supply 750 million cubic feet of natural gas daily to Pakistan from mid-2014, ignoring India that was part of the original plan conceived in the 1990s.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from IndiaTimes