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East Asia
Tehran and Beijing begin $3bn oil cooperation
Iranian deputy oil minister said Iran and China will jointly launch a three-billion-dollar oil project to develop and optimize Abadan Refinery. Managing Director of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) Abbas Kazemi, while expounding on the first major agreement between Iran and China in the post-JCPOA era, said…
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Central Asia
Medvedev and Yildirim: Russia and Turkey should develop their relations more actively
Russia and Turkey have great potential to increase the bilateral trade and economic cooperation, the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said during a meeting with the Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. According to him, Russia and Turkey have a historically large volume of trade ties, but for a number of…
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East Asia
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Central Asia
Azerbaijani, Turkish and Turkmen energy ministers to meet early 2017
Meeting of energy ministers of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Turkmenistan is planned for early 2017, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Cavusoglu made the remarks during a joint briefing with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov in Baku Dec. 3. “Azerbaijan and Turkey also intend to develop cooperation within trilateral formats with…
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Central Asia
Russia and Armenia sign combined forces agreement
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his Armenian counterpart Vigen Sargsyan signed an agreement on establishing combined forces. Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan said the group would include Russia’s military base in Armenia, as well as units of the Armenian armed forces, Sputnik reports. The Defense ministers also signed a…
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East Asia
What to Expect from the New American President Trump’s Foreign Policy
by Greg R. Lawson – Contributing Analyst, Wikistrat In light of the surprising election of Donald J. Trump to become the 45th President of the United States, leaders around the world are scrambling to determine what this means for their own national interests. On one hand, this is an entirely…
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West Asia
From the Obligation Policy Towards Stability: The New Phase of Israel-Turkey Relations
by Selim Han Yeniacun – Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The bumpy relations of two democratic states have always caused confusion on minds, especially by Western societies since the proclamation of independence of Israel that read by David Ben Gurion to recent conflagration spreading whole northern regions of Israel, Turkey was the…
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East Asia
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Central Asia
Turkmenistan and Georgia to promote joint transport projects
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov discussed the further cooperation prospects at the meeting with his Georgian counterpart Giorgi Margvelashvili, the Turkmen Dovlet Habarlary state news agency reported, Trend published. Stressing that Georgia plays an important role in the integration of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, President Margvelashvili confirmed the…
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Central Asia
