Japan and Turkey inked a directive on bilateral nuclear cooperation, taking both countries a step closer towards the fruition of a 20 billion U.S. dollar tie-up for Japanese firms to build a nuclear facility in Turkey, a Japanese industry ministry official said Friday.

• Date: 24.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from People's Daily

Russia's lower house of parliament will not be able to give its full approval to a U.S.-Russian nuclear arms treaty until at least next month, a senior lawmaker said Friday.

• Date: 24.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.12.2010  |  Security  |  from washingtonpost.com

The vote handed US President Barack Obama a major foreign policy victory in his drive to improve ties with Moscow and curb the spread of atomic weapons to other nations.

• Date: 23.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from Yahoo! news

Nations in East Asia should cease confrontation and abandon intentions to enhance their own security at the expense of that of their neighbors, said Russia's top envoy to China on Tuesday in Beijing.

• Date: 22.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

Belarus lower house of parliament on Tuesday approved the creation of a free trade zone with Russia and Kazakhstan, a move which will help avoid energy supplies cuts to Europe.

• Date: 22.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from reuters.com

Security forces in Belarus have detained over 600 people, including seven opposition candidates, after smashing a mass rally protesting fraud in the landslide re-election of president Alexander Lukashenko.

• Date: 21.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.12.2010  |  Markets  |  from abc.net.au

The United States is nearing a decision on whether to take action at the World Trade Organzation against China's rare earth minerals export restraints or other practices by Beijing to help its clean energy sector.

• Date: 21.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from indiatoday.in

Receiving a small group of US analysts in Minsk (EDM, December 15), President, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, appealed to the United States to develop a multi-track policy toward Belarus, instead of a single-dimensional policy [implying democracy-promotion divorced from everything else].

• Date: 21.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org