Australia reversing a decades-long ban on uranium mining has cheered the industry in India and is set to provide a fresh fillip to relations between the two countries.

• Date: 23.10.2012  |  Published on EGF: 23.10.2012  |  Energy  |  from mineweb.com

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili participates in the "International Energy Forum - 2012 for the world's leaders," which is being held in the UAE.

• Date: 23.10.2012  |  Published on EGF: 23.10.2012  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

India and Russia have put off their high-level engagement planned for November 1 by almost two months in order to reach an agreement on some contentious military and civil issues.

• Date: 23.10.2012  |  Published on EGF: 23.10.2012  |  External Relations  |  from thehindu.com

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has this morning arrived in Tehran for holding talks with senior Iranian officials, Fars reported.

• Date: 22.10.2012  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2012  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Japan posted its worst September trade figures in more than 30 years, official data showed Monday, as the global slowdown and a territorial spat with China weighed on the world's third-largest economy.

• Date: 22.10.2012  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2012  |  External Relations  |  from thejakartaglobe.com

Belarus plans to import 5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity from Russia in 2013, Belarusian Energy Minister Alexander Ozerets said at a press conference in Minsk Friday. "The electricity balance with Russia has been entirely agreed. We are looking at deliveries of 5 kilowatt hours from Russia, of which 3 billion kilowatt hours is guaranteed import and 2 billion can be purchased within the balance if it is economically sound," Ozerets said.

• Date: 22.10.2012  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2012  |  Energy  |  from interfax.com.ua

At a time when the United States and Iran are at loggerheads over Tehran's nuclear program, Iranian and U.S. delegations were both in New Delhi this week to hold separate meetings with Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai.

• Date: 20.10.2012  |  Published on EGF: 20.10.2012  |  External Relations  |  from thediplomat.com

Azerbaijani gas supply to Turkey, suspended because of an explosion on the South Caucasus gas pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) is resumed, IHA agency quotes Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz as saying on Wednesday.

• Date: 20.10.2012  |  Published on EGF: 20.10.2012  |  Energy  |  from turkishweekly.net