Armenia and Azerbaijan held talks Saturday on the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region, signalling their wish to resolve the conflict peacefully after tensions heightened in recent months.

• Date: 07.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news

Two Philippine military planes chased Chinese patrol boats from disputed waters in the South China Sea on March 2. The Philippine military claims that the patrol boats were harassing a Philippine vessel belonging to a private oil firm conducting seismic explorations of the natural gas and oil reservoirs in the Reed Bank, located 240 kilometers off the west coast of Palawan.

• Date: 05.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from wsws.org

Kazakh Ambassador to Turkey Zhanseit Tuimebayev has also been appointed by President Nursultan Nazarbayev as the ambassador to Albania, the Presidential Press Service reported.

• Date: 04.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

The Chechen Islamist rebel leader who is Russia's most wanted man has issued an appeal for recruits for a "total war" against the Russian state, in a new video message

• Date: 04.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news

China has announced a double-digit increase in its secretive military budget but insisted the annual outlay of more than 90 billion US dollars posed no external threat, despite concern worldwide.

• Date: 04.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.03.2011  |  Security  |  from smh.com.au

Kyrgyzstan represents investment interest for Russia, press-service of Kyrgyz Parliament quoted the Russian State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov, reporting on the meeting of Speaker Akhmatbek Keldibekov with his counterpart in Moscow

• Date: 03.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

India’s search for economic and strategic space in changing world order resulted in ‘Look East’ Policy. The bedrock of this policy is to foster economic and security cooperation with our east neighboring countries. Believing in philosophy of the Look East Policy, India is aiming at leveraging its economic and strategic interest by greater integration with East and South-east Asia.

• Date: 02.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from commodityonline.com

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is helping to modernise Kazakhstan’s energy generation network with a senior secured loan of 3.1 billion Kazakh tenge (equivalent to €15 million) to AES Sogrinsk CHP power plant.

• Date: 01.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from finchannel.com