The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov met with Uzbekistan’s mass media heads and representatives. The Minister informed journalists about the upcoming International Conference “Central Asian Connectivity: Challenges and new Opportunities”, which will be held on February 19-20, 2019 in Tashkent. It is expected that the President of the Republic […]

The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) minister for trade, Veronika Nikishina, said the EAEU member countries are ready to continue talks with Iran to develop trade and economic cooperation. She made the remark during the signing ceremony of a trilateral memorandum of understanding on wheat trade between Russia, Kazakhstan and Iran. The signing ceremony took place on February […]

 European officials on Friday voiced strong support for the Iran nuclear deal, a day after US Vice President Pence demanded that the bloc’s major powers follow Washington in withdrawing from the agreement. According to Washington Post, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini voiced strong support for the Iran nuclear deal in her adddress to the […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday met with EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini in the German city of Munich. During the meeting, which was held on the sidelines of the 55th Munich Security Conference, the two sides discussed the latest developments regarding the Iran nuclear deal, regional issues, and other topics of […]

Chinese Vice-Premier Hu Chunhua has cancelled trade talks with Britain’s Finance Minister Philip Hammond after Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson threatened to deploy an aircraft carrier in Beijing’s backyard, a report said. Hu was due to hold trade talks with Hammond this weekend. Instead, The Sun newspaper report said, Hu cancelled the talks in protest at […]

The Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, which is due to come online by the end of 2019, will be built despite the EU’s Gas Directive amendment, Vladimir Chizhov, Russian envoy to the EU said on Thursday. The new provisional directive agreed Wednesday governing gas pipeline imports, including Russia’s planned Nord Stream 2 to bring […]

British lawmakers are certain to back a proposed Brexit agreement if it does not include the backstop, a controversial Irish border arrangement, British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt told a Polish newspaper. The British parliament will vote later on Thursday on Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for an agreement with the European Union on the terms […]

President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday that US President Donald Trump continues to threaten Venezuela with military intervention and urged all nations to stand in solidarity with his country. Speaking to reporters at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Maduro recalled Trump’s previous remarks signaling military intervention was “an option” after Washington recognized opposition leader Juan […]

Asserting congressional authority over war-making powers, the US House of Representatives approved a resolution Wednesday that would force the Trump administration to withdraw US troops from involvement in Yemen, in a rebuke of Donald Trump’s alliance with the Saudi-led coalition b Lawmakers in both parties are increasingly uneasy over the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and […]

US and Chinese negotiators began trade talks Thursday that President Donald Trump says will help decide whether he escalates a fight over Beijing’s technology ambitions by raising tariffs on $200 billion of imports from China. Businesspeople and economists say the two days of talks are unlikely to resolve the battle that threatens to drag on […]