"Iran does want Turkey to play such a role. And if the United States also wants and asks us to play this role, we are ready to do this," Recep Erdogan said.

Turkey and Russia should be allowed to join select projects within the European Union's planned partnership with its former-Soviet neighbors, EU foreign ministers said

The new environmental program of EC will tackle long-standing environmental problems in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

Azeri official Elmar Mammadyarov said that the sides enjoy great potentials to develop economic cooperation

Charles Aznavour, Paris Vice Major Catherine Vieu-Charier, two of Manushyan's comrades-in arms - Anri Karayan and Arsen Chakaryan attended the ceremony.

Uzbekistan is exporting a part of its production to the world market via the Turkmen city of Serakhs, bordering on Iran.

"The author's aim was to convince all the actors, involved in the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict settlement process, of the necessity to change the status-quo," says a statement issued by the NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

ATP published 2009 ranking results.

According to the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger published by UNESCO prior to 21 February, International Mother Language Day, 15 languages are endangered in Turkey.