Eurasia

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO allies said on Tuesday that regular contacts with Russia were impossible until its troops had been fully withdrawn from Georgia, and said they were “seriously considering” the implications of Moscow’s actions.

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistanis danced in the streets on Monday after beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation, with many ordinary people hoping his departure would bring improvement to their lives.

VERKHNY ZARAMAG, Russia (Reuters) – No Russian tanks or armored personnel carriers left Georgia through the only military crossing point back into Russia overnight, a Reuters reporter at the border said on Tuesday morning.

TEHRAN (FNA)- India’s Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) will sell an additional 210,000 tons of diesel to Iran by December, Managing Director R. Rajamani said Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey’s energy minister on Monday announced plans to visit Tehran to discuss investment in gas fields and a pipeline project in a rebuff to the United States, which opposes energy deals with Iran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s first convoy of relief supplies for the displaced people of the Georgian city of Gori was delivered to the city’s officials.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian official said that Tehran is striving to help provide security in the region of Caucasus.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran’s foreign minister and the visiting Armenian energy minister Armen Movsisyan discussed regional topics and bilateral cooperation Sunday in Tehran. Iran and Armenia could cooperate on achieving a formula for the peace and stability of the important region of Caucus through interaction with other countries, said Manouchehr Mottaki.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Turkish foreign and energy ministers will have a trip to Iran within next two weeks to finalize energy agreements with Iran. Turkey’s energy minister Hilmi Guler also rejected claims saying the failure in signing the agreement was due to the US pressures to isolate Iran and declared the agreement …

Russia has begun pulling its troops out of Georgia, according to its deputy chief of staff. In a daily official briefing, Col-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said the pull-out started in accordance with a six-point ceasefire plan brokered by French President Nicolas Sarokzy.