Syria’s main opposition group, the Syrian Negotiation Commission, will skip this month’s National Dialogue Congress in the Russian city of Sochi, the opposition's umbrella organization, the High Negotiations Committee, said Saturday.
"The Syrian negotiation commission of revolutionary and opposition forces declares boycott ...
The Turkish-led assault on Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) positions in Afrin, Syria, is going to expand in scope to include an offensive on the town of Manbij, where US military personnel are stationed, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said this week.
"With the Olive Branch operation, we have once again thwarted the game ...
President Vladimir Putin praised a newly-built supersonic strategic bomber on Thursday after watching it in flight, saying it would beef up Russia’s nuclear weapons capability.
Under a contract signed on Thursday, 10 of the modernized TU-160M nuclear bombers, codenamed Blackjacks by NATO, will be delivered to the Russian Air Force at a cost ...
A tanker was crossing the Atlantic on Sunday to warm New England households with natural gas whose sources are thought to include a project in the Russian Arctic under US sanctions. The US has never before imported LNG from Russia, according to government records. The Gaselys left the UK’s Isle of Grain terminal with a cargo of liquefied natural ...
January 21, 2018 . Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said that Iran nuclear deal – known as JCPOA – became a practical example in solving most complicated issues by means of negotiation.
Nazarbayev made the remarks while addressing a meeting of the UN Security Council on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction ...
Nursultan Nazarbayev held a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin on 22 January 2018 .
During the phone call, Nazarbayev and Putin discussed state and prospects of Astana-Moscow cooperation as well as bilateral interaction within the framework of Eurasian economic integration.
The Kazakh and Russian presidents ...
In 2017, Kyrgyzstan and its residents became evidences of many political events. Experts said that these events contributed to the strengthening of the state and its formation. Moreover, Kyrgyzstan managed not only to maintain, but also to strengthen political stability in the country and to become a geopolitical player in the region and in the world....
Bishkek, January 22, 2018 . Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China will hold a meeting in Tashkent on Jan. 24-25, 2018, on the implementation of the agreement between the governments of the three countries on the international road transport signed in 1998, the Foreign Ministry of Uzbekistan reported.
Delegations from the Ministry of Transport of China,...
Establishing direct flights between India and Azerbaijan would greatly enhance flow of businessmen and tourists, Indian Ambassador Sanjay Rana told Trend in an interview.
Rana stressed that the direct flights would create new business opportunities in tourism, medical services and people to people links.
"Indians are increasingly traveling abroad ...
Saudi Arabia puts considerable amount of investment in the construction of the TAPI gas pipeline. Financial resources for TAPI have been allocated by the Saudi Development Fund due to the agreements reached during the official visit of the President of Turkmenistan to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in May 2016, according to Babayev M., the vice premier ...
The new version of the Uzbekistan’s National Security Concept will be prepared in 2018, Sodiq Safoev, first deputy chairman of the Senate said at a briefing on 17 january 2018.
According to him, the concept will include new approaches to responding to external and internal threats aimed at destabilizing the country. The current Uzbekistan’...
Jan. 20 - Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev expressed condolences to President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani in connection with numerous victims of the fire and the collapse of a shopping center in Tehran, the Kyrgyz President's press service reports.
"With deep empathy I learned the news about numerous casualties as a ...
Jan. 11– Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has sent a message of condolence to President Rouhani on the sudden death of Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president and head of Expediency Council.
“The news of death Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was received with grief; people of Kazakhstan will always bring in the collective memory ...
Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gholam Ali Khoshroo warned against spread of terrorism and extremism across the world and said xenophobic ideologies and hatred toward others are behind the rise of such violent phenomena.
“Apart from aggression, extremist and Takfiri and xenophobic ideologies, which are on rise simultaneously in ...
Jan. 11– Russian military has delivered more than 3 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the residents of the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
The bulletin added that across Aleppo there continued to operate facilities, where the civilians could receive essentials, including ...
10 January, 2017, Kazakhstan as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the first time participated in its Open Debate on Conflict Prevention and Sustaining Peace, where Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov presented the policy address by President Nursultan Nazarbayev "Kazakhstan's Concept Vision on Sustaining Global ...
Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze who was paying an official visit to Turkey on January 10 met with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and addressed the annual conference of Turkish diplomats.
During the meeting with President Erdoğan, Janelidze offered ...
In the near future, Turkmenistan intends to begin development of the promising “North Goturdepe” oil field that is located on the Caspian Sea shelf. A number of Turkmen media reported the news, citing the words of Deputy Prime Minister Yagshigeldi Kakaev. During the first meeting of the Turkmen government in 2017, the official noted that ...
This year, Uzbekistan plans to increase the exports of fruit and vegetables 1.55-fold as compared to the year 2016. According to the recent statement of “Uzagroeksport,” the physical volume of exports of fruits and vegetables is projected to amount to about 1.27 million tons in 2017. As of today, “Uzagroeksport” has firm contracts ...
The volume of bilateral trade between Turkmenistan and China has decreased over the past two years, which was caused by the ongoing global economic crisis. Chinese ambassador in Ashgabat Sun Weidong made this statement in an interview with representatives of a local newspaper. According to the materials dedicated to the 25th anniversary of establishment ...