South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy said on Wednesday that domestic companies would increase development of oil and gas operations to make up 13 percent of overall imports in 2011, from this year's 10 percent.

• Date: 15.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from Yahoo! news

Turkmenistan has moved closer to opening another market for its natural gas reserves after signing an agreement for a pipeline to India via Afghanistan.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from bloomberg.com

Russia's controversial transport blockade of Georgia is threatening to inflict considerable economic damage on Armenia, the Russian regional ally that uses Georgian territory as its main commercial conduit to the outside world. The government in Yerevan is now scrambling to minimize negative consequences of the sanctions for a large number of Armenian businesses trading with Russia.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from eurasianet.org

One of the first cables released by the website WikiLeaks was a May, 2009 cable regarding the delay of removing High Enriched Uranium (HEU) by the U.S. from Pakistan's Atomic Research Reactor-1 (PARR) near Islamabad. In 2007, the Pakistani government agreed to allow the U.S. to ship the unknown quantity of HEU back to the U.S.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from foreignpolicy.com

India and France signed seven agreements in the area of nuclear energy technology, including one for setting up nuclear power plants in Haharashra

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from People's Daily

Azerbaijan is rife with corruption and comparisons to European feudalism in the Middle Ages are hardly a stretch. But with vast reserves of oil and natural gas at stake, the US is willing to risk the embarrassment that comes with courting the country.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from spiegel.de

Ahmet Davutoglu is the first Turkish foreign minister visiting Turkmenistan in nine years.

• Date: 13.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from news.az

With Turkey's foreign policy not based on a zero-sum game, the country tries to maximize its relations with all countries to be an effective player in the region, and eventually in the world, according to Gökhan Çetinsaya, the rector of İstanbul Şehir University.

• Date: 13.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from todayszaman.com