Moscow - Washington is still in negotiations with Kyrgyzstan that may allow it to avert the closure of an air base in the Central Asian state key to supplying troops in northern Afghanistan, a top US administration official said Friday.
"We have received an offer to negotiate from Kyrgyzstan, and there is a possibility that our deal on the use of this base remains effective," the US official told journalists in Moscow, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Moscow, Mar 27 : India will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference on Afghanistan in Moscow on Friday.
The conference is being held ahead of the March 31 meeting on Afghanistan in The Hague, under the initiative of the United States. India is participating in both the meetings.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh''s special envoy, Satinder Lambah, will represent India at the conference.
Moscow, Mar 27: India will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference on Afghanistan in Moscow on Friday.
The conference is being held ahead of the March 31 meeting on Afghanistan in The Hague, under the initiative of the United States. India is participating in both the meetings.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh''s special envoy, Satinder Lambah, will represent India at the conference.
Moscow - Russia on Thursday expressed fear the Czech premier's resignation, midway through the country's EU presidency, would "break up" an EU-Russian summit set for May 21-22.
"We very much hope that the Czech domestic political situation does not effect the speed and intensity of the talks between Russian and the EU and does not breakup the full agenda set for the period of the Czech EU presidency - above all at the EU-Russia summit," deputy foreign minister Andrei Nesterenko told journalists.
Moscow - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that an international conference on Afghanistan hosted by Moscow would help coordinate global efforts to stabilize the country.
"These (meetings) are directed at increasing the effectiveness of the international cooperation and in its action to support the Afghan leadership's struggle against the threat of terrorism and drug-trafficking," Lavrov was quoted by news agency Itar-tass as saying after talks with his Kyrgyz counterpart.
Moscow - US software billionaire Charles Simonyi became the world's first two-time space tourist as the 19th mission streaked to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday.
Mission commander cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Michael Barratt joined Simonyi in the cramped Soyuz capsule for the two-day flight to dock with the space station on Saturday.
The crew blasted off punctually at 1149 GMT from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppes.
Moscow - Washington is still in negotiations with Kyrgyzstan that may allow it to avert the closure of an air base in the Central Asian state key to supplying troops in northern Afghanistan, a top US administration official said Friday.
Moscow, Mar 27 : India will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference on Afghanistan in Moscow on Friday.
Moscow, Mar 27: India will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference on Afghanistan in Moscow on Friday. 
Moscow - Russia on Thursday expressed fear the Czech premier's resignation, midway through the country's EU presidency, would "break up" an EU-Russian summit set for May 21-22.
Moscow - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that an international conference on Afghanistan hosted by Moscow would help coordinate global efforts to stabilize the country.
Moscow - US software billionaire Charles Simonyi became the world's first two-time space tourist as the 19th mission streaked to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday.
