The secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikolai Bordyuzha, will visit Tajikistan on March 14-18, the Central Asian country's Foreign Ministry said.

• Date: 14.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from rian.ru

After it was hit by a catastrophic tsunami in 2004, the Indian government has put in place an effective system to issue tsunami alerts.

• Date: 14.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from People's Daily

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

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

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

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

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