The United States is using the recent uprisings in the Middle East to make the case to authoritarian Central Asian states to undertake democratic reform.

• Date: 11.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from thestar.com.my

With the price of oil climbing to more than $100 a barrel, Russia has a little more weight to throw around on the world stage, and it is doing just that.

• Date: 11.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from washingtonpost.com

Uzbek President Islam Karimov signed a decree to approve an Uzbek-Qatari intergovernmental agreement on economic, trade and technical cooperation, an agreement on legal cooperation and a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in environmental protection and the rational use of natural resources for sustainable development.

• Date: 10.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

The United States and the EU have once again repeated the unfounded claims questioning the peaceful nature of our nuclear activities without presenting any authenticated evidence, Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh told to reporters in the Austrian capital

• Date: 10.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Pakistan agreed to discuss frameworks that would facilitate trade and economic relations between Pakistan and Tajikistan to provide latter an easy access to its ports, especially to its southwestern Gwadar Port, local media reported

• Date: 09.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from People's Daily

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will on Wednesday embark on a two-day official visit to Latvia on the invitation of his counterpart Valdis Zatlers, Sargsyan's press service reported.

• Date: 09.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

U.S. President Barack Obama has held talks at the White House with Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbaeva.  

• Date: 08.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 08.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from rferl.org

George Perkovich, director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, confessed to his audience, "Those who really know what's going on in Pakistan's nuclear complex aren't talking about it, and those who are talking, including myself, don't really know what's going on in Pakistan's nuclear complex."

• Date: 08.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 08.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from foreignpolicy.com