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29 January 2010 [16:44]
In order to resolve the issue of garbage removal in the republic, the Armenian government has decided to announce an international competition among private companies.
29 January 2010 [16:37]
The ninth round of the internationally mediated peace talks on Caucasus ended without results in Geneva on Jan. 28.
29 January 2010 [16:04]
The international community's sanctions against Iran demonstrate its effectiveness, said Michael Ratney, the spokesman for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the U.S. State Department.
29 January 2010 [15:53]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his Kazakh counterpart Kanat Saudabayev met in London on Thursday.
29 January 2010 [15:47]
29 January 2010 [15:34]
Georgian Parliament Chairman Davit Bakradze will hold meetings in Luxemburg on Jan. 29.
29 January 2010 [14:57]
Pakistan and Iran have agreed to expedite the process of importing 1000 MW power by Pakistan from Iran on fast track basis for its early completion, officials said on Thursday.
29 January 2010 [14:43]
Top Israeli diplomat in Turkey said that relations between Turkey and Israel are based on solid basis and that he sees "better ties" in the future.
29 January 2010 [14:24]
29 January 2010 [14:13]
Moscow opens door to those opposition parties, who have been voyaging to the Russian capital during the past few months aiming at "restarting relations with Russia."
29 January 2010 [13:57]
29 January 2010 [13:45]
The US Senate has approved a bill that would allow President Barack Obama to impose new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear energy program.
29 January 2010 [13:33]
29 January 2010 [12:58]
29 January 2010 [12:43]
Turkish Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin arrived in Kampala, capital city of Uganda.
29 January 2010 [12:35]
China has called for efforts to solve Iran's nuclear issue through diplomacy, while the US campaigns to pressure other world powers into imposing a new round of sanctions against Iran.
29 January 2010 [12:27]
At the 10th round of Geneva Talks on security in Caucasus, Georgia presented South Ossetia no data on missing Ossetians.
29 January 2010 [11:50]
29 January 2010 [11:44]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met Thursday with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the sidelines of a London conference on Afghanistan.
29 January 2010 [11:38]
Russia's state-run arms exporter said on Thursday that "nothing" would stop the country from selling military equipment to Iran.
29 January 2010 [11:07]
29 January 2010 [11:00]
Turkish Football Federation adjoined a letter of guarantee, signed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
29 January 2010 [10:56]
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy's adviser at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday.
29 January 2010 [10:49]
29 January 2010 [10:05]
29 January 2010 [09:50]
While there was no change in the position of the parties, the meeting was beneficial, sources said.
29 January 2010 [09:45]
With the new MoU, the number of existing transportation points with Bulgaria has risen to four from two.
28 January 2010 [20:44]
The index is prepared by U.S. Yale and Columbia universities, and announced within the scope of Davos meetings.
28 January 2010 [19:47]
Heavy snowfall and freezing weather conditions have paralyzed life and traffic in most parts of Turkey.
28 January 2010 [19:35]
The leader of the Republican Party Davit Usupashvili says the opposition party and the Alliance for Georgia continued carrying out activities for improving election environment in the country.
28 January 2010 [19:23]
In his first State of Union address to Congress, US President Barack Obama warned Iran that it will face "growing consequences" over its nuclear work if ignores its “obligations.”
28 January 2010 [19:03]
28 January 2010 [18:55]
Pakistan has deported seven Turkish citizens who were arrested by the security agencies on various charges, Pakistani newspaper reported.
28 January 2010 [18:47]
Iran said Thursday it was studying the appeals of nine people who have been handed the death penalty over their involvements in plots against the Islamic Republic following the June presidential election.
28 January 2010 [18:13]
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will pay a visit to Turkey next week to attend a NATO meeting.
28 January 2010 [18:06]
The control on food product will be reinforced in Georgia.
28 January 2010 [17:47]
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says the Islamic Republic has conducted transactions worth USD 200 million with Armenia in 2009.
28 January 2010 [17:34]
Turkish Minister of Industry and Trade, Nihat Ergun, said Wednesday trade and investments with Iraq continue at a high speed.
28 January 2010 [17:25]
Pakistani Federal Minister for Petroleum Naveed Qamar has declared that the US has no objection to an agreement between Iran and Pakistan to build a natural gas pipeline.
28 January 2010 [17:04]
Russia assesses the request of Georgian government to substitute Russian forces by international police forces in its occupied zones as a new provocation.
28 January 2010 [16:38]
On Jan. 29, a charity concert and marketplace will take place at UN Conference Hall in central Yerevan.
28 January 2010 [16:21]
Turkey has "strongly" warned Israel at the United Nations Security Council for that country's policy and activities against the Palestinians.
28 January 2010 [16:05]
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday that Tehran will not attend the Afghanistan conference in London.
28 January 2010 [16:00]
Catholic Patriarch of Georgia Illia the Second will leave for Germany on Jan. 28.
28 January 2010 [15:34]
In 2009, Armenia's GDP, expressed in US dollars, dropped 30-32 percetnt, former Central Bank Director, Bagrat Asatryan, said at a meeting with journalists.
28 January 2010 [15:28]
PACE has asked Turkey and Greece on Wednesday to treat religious minorities in compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights.
28 January 2010 [15:13]
28 January 2010 [15:04]
Two German nationals who have been arrested in Iran in connection with the post-election unrest in the country were police officers who worked at the embassy, German news agency dpa has confirmed.
28 January 2010 [14:47]
28 January 2010 [14:33]
Davutoglu and Clinton, who both are in London to attend an international conference on Afghanistan, had a 15-minute brief meeting, diplomats said.
28 January 2010 [14:05]
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will declare the country's initiatives for solving the global economic crisis, the foreign ministry spokesman says.
28 January 2010 [13:57]
NATO Secretary General plans to visit Georgia.
28 January 2010 [13:54]
28 January 2010 [13:22]
Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur's Mexican striker Giovani Dos Santos joined Turkey's Galatasaray on loan, Turkish club said on Wednesday.
28 January 2010 [13:12]
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottak, who was in Yerevan to take part in the 9th meeting of Armenian-Iranian intergovernmental commission, on Jan. 27.
28 January 2010 [13:08]
Iran executed two people who were convicted of carrying a deadly bombing in the southern city of Shiraz in 2008 that killed 13 civilians.
28 January 2010 [12:52]
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with Georgian Parliamentary Chairman Davit Bakradze in Brussels on Jan. 27.
28 January 2010 [12:48]
The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday adopted a draft motion for a resolution on Turkey's progress report 2009.
28 January 2010 [12:25]
28 January 2010 [12:08]
A senior Iranian lawmaker has voiced Iran's readiness to get engaged in close security cooperation with other countries in the Middle East.
28 January 2010 [12:00]
Most residents of the Georgian capital support plans of the government to accede to NATO, the survey conducted upon the order of the Information Centre of NATO in Georgia said.
28 January 2010 [11:57]
Turkey and Iraq agreed to organize an agriculture and stockbreeding fair in Iraq, Turkish Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker said on Wednesday.
28 January 2010 [11:15]
“The Armenian Government’s policy and actions are not in line with the present situation,” member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) parliamentary faction Ara Nranyan told reporters.
28 January 2010 [10:51]
As Iranian lawmakers push for a bill to downgrade ties with London, Britain's envoy to Tehran said in an interview that his country is not happy with the proposal.
28 January 2010 [10:45]
The Georgian government has adopted a state strategy regarding the occupied territories entitled "Involvement through Cooperation."
28 January 2010 [10:37]
Local media said prosecutors were demanding life in prison for five officers.
28 January 2010 [10:13]
A trilateral meeting of Armenia-Russia-Iran working group on Iran-Armenia railway construction was held in Yerevan on Jan. 27.
28 January 2010 [09:47]
Chinese FM Jiechi praises Turkey, that respected the sovereignty and territorial integrity in a clear reference to what Uighurs call East Turkistan.
27 January 2010 [19:33]
The top U.S. diplomat in Turkey said on Tuesday that Turkey and the United States could raise their trade volume "by three-folds".
27 January 2010 [19:13]
Foreign affairs ministers of Turkey and China met in Istanbul on Wednesday.
27 January 2010 [19:00]
Kazakhstan opened an honorary consulate in the Aegean city of Izmir on Tuesday.
27 January 2010 [18:54]
David Bakradze, Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, who is currently staying in Brussels, met with Jerzy Buzek, President of European Parliament.
27 January 2010 [18:47]
Arda Turan ranked the second in world list, and the first in European continent list with 91.887 points.
27 January 2010 [18:36]
27 January 2010 [18:27]
Davutoglu said that Turkish-Chinese relations had been going through a "historic turning point".
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