| 5 January | —The Interstate Coordinating Council to create a trans-Afghan transportation corridor begins its work in Tashkent. |
| 10 January | —Afghanistan sends humanitarian aid to the South Asian countries afflicted by the tsunami. |
| 12 January | —Four American senators make a visit to Kabul. |
| 13 January | —The Mission of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reports on its plans to resettle 360 Afghani refugees from Uzbekistan to Canada. |
| 13 January | —Tajikistan opens its second representative office of the Drug Control Agency in Afghanistan. |
| 26 January | —Afghani President Hamid Karzai makes a two-day visit to Iran. |
| 26 January | —A meeting is held in Kabul between high-ranking employees of the Afghani power-related structures and representatives of the U.S. Defense Ministry. |
| 28 January | —The U.S. promises Afghanistan military aid of 88.5 million dollars. |
| 6 February | —Head of State Hamid Karzai calls on the World Bank to finance efforts in the drug war aimed at reorienting farmers toward growing alternative crops. |
| 12 February | —After the end of the summit of heads of the military departments of NATO member states in Nice, Secretary General of the Alliance Jaap de Hoop Scheffer officially announces enlargement of the action zone of international peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan to its western regions. |
| 15 February | —Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh makes an official visit to Afghanistan. |
| 16 February | —During his visit to Kabul, British Foreign Minister Jack Straw says that London plans to create a trust fund for rendering Afghanistan aid in the fight against the illicit manufacture and sale of drugs, to which other countries can also make contributions. |
| 18-19 February | —The Pentagon doubles the number of advisors (288 U.S. servicemen) in the Afghani army. |
| 20 February | —Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai participates in the work of a three-day economic forum in Jidda (Saudi Arabia). |
| 21 February | —Well-known Afghani politicians criticize the report on violations of rights by warlords prepared by an independent commission on human rights in Afghanistan. They call all the accusations by this commission unjustified and say its report is a political job. |
| 22 February | —While in Kabul, Senator David McCain calls for creating permanent U.S. military bases in Afghanistan. |
| 23-25 February | —Afghani President Hamid Karzai makes an official visit to India. |
| 28 February | —Head of State Hamid Karzai talks on the telephone with Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov. |
| 2 March | —The wife of Iranian President, Zohre Sadegi Khatami, visits Afghanistan on the invitation of the head of state’s wife, Zinat Karzai. |
| 5 March | —The German government allots 2.76 million Euros for de-mining Afghanistan. |
| 16 March | —Head of the Iranian Ministry of Internal Affairs Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari makes an official visit to Kabul. |
| 17 March | —U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice makes her first visit to Afghanistan. |
| 22 March | —Afghani President Hamid Karzai makes a two-day visit to Pakistan. |
| 23 March | —Russian Minister of Justice Yuri Chaika and Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of Afghanistan in the Russian Federation Ghulam Sakhi Ghairat sign a treaty in Moscow on the transfer of persons sentenced to imprisonment for serving their punishment. |
| 25 March | —The U.N. Security Council extends the time of this organization’s stay in Afghanistan for another year. |
| 27 March | —Rumanian President Traian Besescu visits Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| 29 March | —Afghanistan temporarily bans flights over its territory by airplanes of the Azerbaijan Airline Company. |
| 30 March | —First U.S. Lady Laura Bush visits Kabul. |
| 3 April | —The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers says that Afghani refugees living in Iran and Pakistan will soon be returned home. |
| 3 April | —President Hamid Karzai meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing in Kabul. |
| 4 April | —The regular International Conference of Donors for Afghanistan opens in Kabul. |
| 7 April | —Head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry Nobutaka Matimura arrives in Kabul. |
| 13 April | —U.S. Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld visits the city of Kandahar in south Afghanistan. |
| 14 April | —At a meeting with Pentagon Head Donald Rumsfeld, Hamid Karzai calls on the U.S. to establish long-term relations. |
| 18 April | —The Afghanistan leadership makes a decision to send troops to Iraq. |
| 21 April | —Estonia states it intention to establish diplomatic relations with Afghanistan in the near future. |
| 26 April | —The Iranian Homa Airline Company opens its representative office in Afghanistan. |
| 27-29 April | —Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmonov makes an official visit to Afghanistan. |
| 6 May | —The U.S. Congress votes for allotting 82 billion dollars to the military operation in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| 10 May | —Speaking before deputies of the European Parliament, Afghani Head Hamid Karzai asks the European Union for long-term assistance (Strasbourg). |
| 15 May | —Iran and Afghanistan sign a Memorandum on Cooperation in Telecommunications. |
| 15 May | —The Afghanistan Ministry of Defense calls on the U.S. government and defense ministry to carry out investigations of the instances of derision by American servicemen of the Koran in Guantanamo prison and to punish those found guilty. |
| 20 May | —Russian Federal Security Service Director Nikolai Patrushev states that the events in Andijan are related not only to Uzbekistan’s domestic problems, but also developed due to the instability in Afghanistan. |
| 20 May | —During his official visit to Japan, Head of the Afghanistan Foreign Ministry Abdullah says that he does not deny the link between several participants in the unrest in Uzbekistan and the Afghani Taliban. |
| 23 May | —At a meeting in Moscow, Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov and Deputy Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Zalmay Aziz discuss the situation in this country. |
| 24 May | —Head of State Hamid Karzai makes a four-day visit to the U.S. |
| 27 May | —U.S. President George Bush appoints Ronald Neumann as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, who replaces Zalmay Khalizad in this post. |
| 3 June | —Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks in favor of reinforcing the Tajik-Afghan border. |
| 7 June | —The Iranian road-building company begins work on restoring the roads in Herat. |
| 9 June | —At a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov announces that Moscow has information about the training of terrorists in Afghanistan for their future export. |
| 10 June | —The U.S. State Department warns American citizens against making trips to Afghanistan. |
| 12 June | —Representatives of the Afghanistan Defense Ministry describe Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov’s statement as unjustified and demand that Moscow clarify its viewpoint regarding official Kabul. |
| 14 June | —The European Union allots Afghanistan 11.5 million Euros for holding a parliamentary election in the country. |
| 14 June | —Head of the press service of the Russian Federal Security Service border group in Tajikistan Colonel Kondratiev says that from this day on the Tajik-Afghan border, 1,344 km in length, will be under the full control of the Tajik border guards. |
| 15 June | —During an international business conference of the Asian Society, Head of the Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry Tokaev announces Kazakhstan’s willingness to invest in Afghanistan’s economy. |
| 15 June | —The U.S. administration redeploys HC-130 airplanes from the Karshi-Khanabad base in Uzbekistan to the Bagram base in Afghanistan. |
| 18 June | —Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai makes a working visit to Tajikistan. |
| 21 June | —A conference of Afghanistan’s donor countries opens in Great Britain. |
| 22 June | —The Afghanistan president’s press secretary Jawed Ludin says that some
high-ranking leaders of the Taliban movement are still in neighboring Pakistan. |
| 23 June | —Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf talks on the telephone to U.S. President George Bush and Afghanistan Head Hamid Karzai. |
| 24 June | —Heads of the foreign ministers of the G-8 countries make a statement in
Great Britain about helping Afghanistan in the struggle against criminal groups. |
| 24 June | —In Moscow, representatives of the CSTO member states discuss measures to render assistance and support to Afghanistan. |
| 24 June | —Russian President Vladimir Putin once more expresses his concern about the fact that terrorist bases are still functioning in Afghanistan. |
| 24 June | —A development program of partnership relations is signed in Kazan, the Russian Federation, by Kazan, Kabul, Braunsweig (Germany), and Yurmala (Latvia). |
| 29 June | —Some Kabul newspapers publish an open letter by Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
| 5 July | —At the summit in Astana, leaders of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization call on the international antiterrorist coalition in Afghanistan to set time-limits for use of the bases in Central Asia. |
| 5 July | —At a meeting in New Delhi with his Afghani colleague Abdullah Abdullah, Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh says that official Delhi will allot Kabul an additional 500 million dollars for the country’s restoration. |
| 11 July | —The Iranian Ministry of Civilian Aviation provides navigation equipment for the restored Afghani airport in the city of Bamian. |
| 14 July | —Pakistan Deputy Minister of Oil and Natural Gas Akhmed Vakar says that official Delhi agrees to participate in building a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan to India. |
| 18-20 July | —Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai makes an official visit to Great Britain. |
| 21 July | —Head of State Hamid Karzai makes an official visit to Italy. |
| 24 July | —Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz makes a one-day visit to Kabul, where he announces official Islamabad’s decision to allot Afghanistan a lump sum of 100 million dollars in aid. |
| 25 July | —Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai does not exclude the possibility of establishing diplomatic relations with Israel. |
| 25 July | —Head of State Hamid Karzai meets in Kabul with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Aminzade. |
| 1 August | —Spanish Defense Minister Jose Bono arrives in Afghanistan. |
| 3 August | —Afghanistan leader Hamid Karzai congratulates Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his inauguration as Iranian president. |
| 3 August | —Hamid Karzai arrives in the capital of Saudi Arabia for the funeral ceremony of deceased King Fahd. |
| 5 August | —General of the North Atlantic Alliance Jerry G. Beck states that by the end of 2006 the U.S. will give NATO troops control over all of Afghanistan’s territory. |
| 17 August | —Afghanistan Minister of Finance Anwahr-ul-Haq Ahadi makes a working visit to Moscow. |
| 17 August | —In a report to the Security Council and General Assembly on the situation in Afghanistan, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan calls on the international community to urgently intercept foreign sources of financing and other support of the Taliban movement and Islamic Party of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar which is active in the country. |
| 17 August | —Spanish Defense Minister Jose Bono arrives in Afghanistan to participate in investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash of a Spanish military helicopter. |
| 22 August | —Russian Minister of Finance agrees to take another look at the possibility of writing off 70% of Afghanistan’s debt, as well as significantly reducing its debt on economic loans by restructuring the remainder of the debt on preferential terms. |
| 28 August | —Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh begins an official two-day visit to Afghanistan. |
| 28 August | —German Defense Minister Peter Struck arrives in Afghanistan and stops in Termez, a town bordering on Uzbekistan. |
| 4 September | —The government allots 100,000 dollars to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. President Hamid Karzai sends a written request to the U.S. embassy to accept this sum. |
| 8 September | —The European Union announces that it will allot an additional 9 million Euros to the parliamentary election in Afghanistan. |
| 12 September | —Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai calls on the U.S. and its allies to reconsider ways to fight terrorism. |
| 13-14 September | —Participants in an informal meeting of defense ministers of the NATO countries in Berlin and a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council discuss the problem of the growing drug trafficking from Afghanistan. |
| 14 September | —Head of the Afghanistan Foreign Minister Doctor Abdullah Abdullah arrives in New York to participate in the 60th session of the U.N. General Assembly. |
| 14 September | —Dustmohammad Argestani, director of the Labor and Social Security Department of the Province of Kandahar, says that Iran’s assistance is required to restore Afghanistan, particularly with respect to training specialists and the intelligentsia. |
| 14 September | —The U.N. Security Council extends the time of the international antiterrorist contingent’s stay in Afghanistan for another year. |
| 14 September | —Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov says that Russia will continue rendering Afghanistan assistance in military-building. |
| 15 September | —Tehran and Kabul sign an agreement on training personnel. |
| 20 September | —Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai expresses doubts about the need to continue a full-scale military operation in the country. |
| 20 September | —Talking in Rome, Deputy NATO Secretary General Alessandro Minuto Rizzo, an Italian diplomat, says that the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) under NATO’s command will stay in Afghanistan for another 5-6 years to assist security in this country. |
| 21 September | —Head of State Hamid Karzai announces his disagreement with Islamabad’s proposal to build a security wall along the Afghan-Pakistani border. |
| 26 September | —Official Islamabad denies the statement that there are disputes between it and Kabul regarding the Afghan-Pakistani border. |
| 27 September | —Hamid Karzai’s press service publicizes a statement by the head of state that the decision about the Durand Line being imposed on the country will be made by the Afghani people. In this respect, the Afghanistan Foreign Ministry emphasizes that the treaty signed in 1893 expired 12 years ago. |
| 29 September | —Representatives of the border departments of Tajikistan and Afghanistan meet in Dushanbe. |
| 30 September | —British Defense Minister John Reid visits Afghanistan. |
| 5 October | —NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who arrived in Kabul for talks with the Afghanistan president, says that the NATO peacekeeping contingent in the country will be increased to 15,000 people. |
| 7 October | —Head of State Hamid Karzai demands that the Pakistani authorities hand over Taliban press secretary Latifullah Hakimi. |
| 9 October | —Russia says it will render Afghanistan military and technical aid. |
| 15 October | —The international tribunal in The Hague sentences two former members of the Afghanistan State Intelligence Service leadership (KHAD) Habibullah Jalalzoy and Hesamuddin Hesam to 9 and 12 years imprisonment, respectively. |
| 16 October | —Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai says he will recognize Israel when a independent Palestinian state is created. |
| 31 October | —The Pakistan government announces the completion of preparatory work on the railroad construction project which will join the border town of Chaman to the Afghan province of Kandahar. |
| 7 November | —At the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program held in Bishkek, President of the Asian Development Bank Haruhiko Kuroda says that Afghanistan has become a full member of CAREC. |
| 16 November | —The participants in a conference in Ashghabad discuss problems relating to the trans-Afghan gas pipeline project. |
| 16 November | —Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai arrives in Strasbourg to sign a Declaration on Cooperation with the EU. |
| 22 November | —Kabul allots 500,000 dollars to the victims of the Pakistan earthquake. |
| 24 November | —IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meets in Tehran with Afghanistan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. |
| 25 November | —Iran and Afghanistan sign political and economic memorandums on mutual understanding. |
| 30 November | —The participants in a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers adopt a decision to create a Working Group on Afghanistan. |
| 1 December | —An American-Afghani memorandum is signed in Kabul, according to which over the span of five years the U.S. will allot 5.5 billion dollars to the Afghanistan development program. |
| 2 December | —The EU approves granting 250 million Euros to Afghanistan for drug
control. |
| 6 December | —The heads of the Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran drug control departments meet in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. |
| 7 December | —Afghanistan Energy Minister Ismail Han makes a working visit to Dushanbe. |
| 7 December | —Pakistan Economics Minister Hina Rabbani Khar makes a working visit to Kabul. |
| 8 December | —Head of State Hamid Karzai arrives in the capital of Saudi Arabia Riyadh to participate in an extraordinary meeting of the conference of Islamic states, where he meets with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev and Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmonov. |
| 9 December | —The Afghanistan and Tajikistan power engineering ministers sign an agreement on drawing up and implementing a project for delivering electric power from the Rogun and Sangtuda hydropower plants of Tajikistan to Herat (Afghanistan) and Mashhad (Iran). |
| 14 December | —Kazakhstan ratifies the Treaty on the Fundamentals of Cooperation with Afghanistan. |
| 14 December | —Moscow and Kabul adopt a decision whereby employees of the Afghan Ministry for Control over the Illicit Circulation of Narcotic Substances will undergo training at the Russian Institute for Advanced Studies under the Russian Federation Interior Ministry. |
| 15 December | —Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai congratulates Kazakhstan’s leader Nursultan Nazarbaev on his victory at the presidential election. |
| 17 December | —The authorities of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopt a decision on the gratuitous transfer of extra army weapons to the Afghanistan security services. |
| 18 December | —U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrives in Kabul. |
| 19 December | —Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero flies to Afghanistan. |
| 26 December | —Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrives in Kabul. |
| 28 December | —U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan appoints German diplomat Tom Koenigs his new mission chief to Afghanistan. |
| 11 January | —Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers Vardan Oskanian and Elmar Mamediarov meet in Prague with cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group for talks on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. |
| 13 January | —A deputy group of Armenia-U.S. Friendship Society meets in the Armenian National Assembly with a delegation of American congressmen and representatives of the U.S. administration who made an acquaintance-making visit to Armenia within the framework of the Marshall Foundation program. |
| 15 January | —Armenian Minister of Science and Education Sergo Eritsian leaves on a visit to Iran. Representatives of the ministry and presidents of the country’s universities are members of the delegation. |
| 18 January | —Meeting of the Armenian and Egyptian Foreign Ministers Vardan Oskanian and Ahmed Aboul Gheit is held in Cairo. |
| 18 January | —Armenian peacekeepers (46 servicemen) leave for Iraq for six months. |
| 19 January | —Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vardan Oskanian meets with Secretary General of the League of Arab States Amre Moussa. |
| 25 January | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian meets with EU Special Representatives for the Southern Caucasus Heikki Talvitie. |
| 25 January | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian receives French cochairman of the OSCE Minsk Group Bernard Facier. |
| 25 January | —Following up David Atkinson’s report, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopts a resolution on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. |
| 26 January | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian receives a delegation headed by authorized presidential representative of the Russian Northwest Federal District, former cochairman of the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission Ilia Klebanov. |
| 26 January | —An Armenian governmental delegation headed by Prime Minister Andranik Margarian arrives in Krakow to participate in the ceremony dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners from the concentration camp in Oswiecim. |
| 27 January | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian pays an official visit to Italy on the invitation of Italian President Karlo Adzelio Champi. |
| 28 January | —While in Rome on an official visit, Armenian President Robert Kocharian meets with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. |
| 28 January | —Robert Kocharian visits the Vatican where he meets with Pope John Paul II. |
| 8 February | —A meeting is held in Tehran between President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seied Mohammad Khatami and Secretary of the National Security Council, Armenian Defense Minister Serge Sarkisian. |
| 9 February | —A delegation headed by chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Artur Bagdasarian holds several meetings in the Bahrain Parliament. |
| 9 February | —During a visit to Iran, Armenian Defense Minister and Secretary of the National Security Council Serge Sarkisian meets his Iranian colleague Hasan Rouhani. |
| 10 February | —Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian goes to Munich to participate in a forum on international security. |
| 12 February | —At the international conference on security in Munich, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian meets with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis, German Chancellor on Foreign Policy and Security Issues Bernd Muezelburg, and Political Director of the German Foreign Ministry Michael Scheffer. |
| 16 February | —Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov makes a two-day official visit to Erevan. |
| 16 February | —A working meeting is held within the framework of a regional assembly of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Budapest between the Armenian Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Agvan Vartanian and ILO General Director Juan Somavia. |
| 17 February | —President Robert Kocharian receives Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his official visit to Armenia. |
| 17 February | —Prime Minister Andranik Margarian receives Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his official visit to Armenia. |
| 24 February | — Armenian President Robert Kocharian meets with NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus Robert Simmons. |
| 2 March | —Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States Vladimir Rushailo makes a working visit to Erevan. |
| 3 March | —Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Artur Bagdasarian receives experts of the Venetian Commission of the Council of Europe and the OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visiting Erevan to discuss the experts’ conclusion on the Armenian Election Code. |
| 7 March | —Cochairmen of the Group on Armenian Issues of the U.S. Congress Frank Pallone and Joe Knollenberg send U.S. President George Bush a letter asking him to officially recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide. |
| 11 March | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian receives Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli, who arrived in Armenia on a two-day working visit. |
| 14 March | —Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian goes on a two-day working visit to Geneva to participate in the 61st session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission. |
| 16 March | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian receives Deputy Head of Russia’s Gazprom Company Alexander Riazanov and Deputy Director of Russia’s RAO Unified Energy Systems Andrei Rappoport. During this meeting, they discuss questions relating to the activity of Armrosgazprom and the building of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline. |
| 21 March | —Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian President Robert Kocharian exchange messages on the occasion of the opening of the Year of Russia in Armenia. |
| 24 March | —Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Erevan on a working visit. |
| 28 March | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian holds a meeting with government members with regards to drawing up an Armenia-EU Individual Action Plan within the framework of the EU European Neighborhood Policy Program. |
| 30 March | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian and acting OSCE Chairman Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Ruppel discuss settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and cooperation in the Armenia-EU format. |
| 1 April | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian goes to Georgia on a two-day working visit on the invitation of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. |
| 5 April | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian meets with Chairman of the House of Representatives of the Kingdom of Belgium Herman De Croo. |
| 8 April | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian holds a meeting with members of the Commission to coordinate the obligations assumed by the republic when it joined the Council of Europe. |
| 15 April | —Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian meets with cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group Steven Mann (U.S.), Bernard Facier (France), and Iuri Merzliakov (Russia). The meeting organized on the initiative of the cochairmen was held in the U.S. embassy in Great Britain. |
| 20 April | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian goes to Paris on a three-day working visit. |
| 2 May | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian chairs the 14th session of the council of trustees of the Aiastan Armenian Foundation at the House of Receptions of the Armenian Government. |
| 3 May | —Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margarian meets with Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk. |
| 9 May | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian meets in Moscow with Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and Greek President Karolos Papoulias. |
| 11 May | —Armenian National Assembly Speaker Artur Bagdarasian receives Rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee Jerzy Jaskernia and Georges Colombier. At the meeting, they discuss how Armenia will fulfill its obligations to PACE. |
| 13 May | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian meets with Rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee Jerzy Jaskernia and Georges Colombier and Committee Secretary Boni Teofilova. |
| 15 May | —Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliev meet in Warsaw. |
| 15 May | —Representatives of Iran and Armenia reach agreements on building two power stations in the border area on the River Araks. |
| 20 May | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian receives Russian Federation Regional Development Minister Vladimir Iakovlev. |
| 26 May | —A delegation of the Armenian National Assembly left for Ljubljana in Slovenia to participate in the spring session of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly. |
| 30 May | —Head of the Russian Presidential Administration Dmitri Medvedev arrives in Erevan. |
| 2 June | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian receives a delegation of the Venetian Commission of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. During the meeting, they discuss the constitutional reforms in Armenia. |
| 9 June | —A Lithuanian parliamentary delegation headed by parliament chairman Arturas Paulauskas arrives in Erevan on the invitation of Armenian National Assembly Speaker Artur Bagdasarian. |
| 10 June | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian receives Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Arturas Paulauskas and the delegation he heads. |
| 13 June | —Armenia is elected as the vice chairman of the 60th session of the U.N. General Assembly, which begins on 14 September. |
| 15 June | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian meets with General Secretary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Nikolai Bordiuzha during his working visit to Erevan. |
| 20 June | —The regular session of the European Union-Armenia Cooperation Committee begins its work in Erevan. |
| 23 June | —President Robert Kocharian takes part in the regular session of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Council in Moscow. |
| 6 July | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian receives a delegation from the Iranian Province of Hormozgan headed by Governor Ebrahim Derazmisu. |
| 12 July | —A joint session of the Political-Military Steering Committee and Political Committee and Armenia takes place in the NATO headquarters convened on the initiative of the Alliance for additional discussion of Armenia’s Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP). |
| 15 July | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian receives the cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group during their regional visit to Armenia. |
| 25 July | —Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margarian discuss questions of developing cooperation between the two countries and the situation in Samtskhe-Javakhetia (Tbilisi). |
| 21 August | —Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili arrives in Armenia on a two-day unofficial visit. |
| 26 August | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian takes part in a regular session of the Council of heads of member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Kazan). |
| 26-28 September | —President of the Republic of Finland Tarja Halonen makes an official visit to Armenia. |
| 19-22 October | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian makes a working visit to Brussels, during which he meets with European Parliament President Jozep Borell-Fontels, EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, European Commission President José Manuel Barosso and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. |
| 23 October | —A delegation of the European Union Troika—representatives of the country chairing in the EU and the country which will chair next, as well as of the European Commission—arrive in Armenia. |
| 29 October | —Within the framework of an official visit to the U.S., Secretary of the National Security Council under the Armenian President, Armenian Defense Minister Serge Sarkisian meets with Pentagon Head Donald Rumsfeld. |
| 9-11 November | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian makes a state visit to Greece. |
| 25 November | —Armenia becomes the chairing country in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. |
| 30 November | —Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian takes part in a regular session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Moscow. |
| 2 December | —Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov arrives in Armenia on an official visit. |
| 16 December | —Russian and Armenian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Robert Kocharian meet in Sochi. |
| 18 December | —Armenia’s Individual Partnership Action Plan with NATO comes into force. |
| 24-26 January | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev pays an official visit to Iran. |
| 25 January | —PACE adopts Resolution 1416 on the Conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh Region Dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference. |
| 31 January- | —A special OSCE mission visits Azerbaijan to investigate instances of illegal |
| 5 February | settlement of occupied Azerbaijan territory. |
| 1-3 February | —Russian Federation Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov visits Azerbaijan. |
| 2-3 February | —NATO Assistant Secretary General for Security Issues Patric Hardown visits Azerbaijan. |
| 6-9 February | —NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus Robert Simmons visits Azerbaijan. |
| 15-17 February | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev pays a working visit to the Russian Federation. |
| 16 February | —Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow at the opening ceremony of the Year of Azerbaijan in Russia. |
| 24-26 February | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev pays an official visit to Italy. |
| 8-10 March | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev pays an official visit to Saudi Arabia. |
| 17-19 March | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev pays a state visit to China. |
| 30-31 March | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev pays an official visit to Poland. |
| 31 March | —The special OSCE mission publicizes a report on the Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. |
| 1-2 April | —OSCE Chairman and Foreign Minister of Slovenia Dimitrij Rupel visits Azerbaijan. |
| 12-13 April | —U.S. Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld visits Azerbaijan. |
| 12-13 April | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev makes an official visit to Pakistan. |
| 15 April | —Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mamediarov and Vardan Oskanian meet in London with the cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group. |
| 21-22 April | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev makes official visit to Moldova. |
| 22 April | —GUAM Kishinev summit. |
| 22 April | —Participants in the GUAM summit adopt the Kishinev Declaration “In the Name of Democracy, Stability, and Development.” |
| 11-12 May | —EU Special Representative for the Southern Caucasus Heikki Talvitie visits Azerbaijan. |
| 15 May | —Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliev and Robert Kocharian meet in Warsaw (with participation of the cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group). |
| 16 May | —Azerbaijan and Iran sign the Memorandum on Cooperation in the Military Sphere. |
| 23 May | —The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs a note regarding the redeployment of Russian military hardware from Georgia to Armenia. |
| 25 May | —A ceremony is held to launch the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (its Azerbaijani section began to be filled with oil). |
| 25 May | —The presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey sign the Declaration on Creating the International Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku Rail Corridor. |
| 26-27 May | —Talks are held in Baku with the cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group. |
| 10-12 June | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev makes an official visit to Croatia. |
| 13-14 June | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev makes a working visit to St. Petersburg. |
| 16 June | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev makes a working visit to Kiev. |
| 17 June | —Talks are held between the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers in Paris. |
| 23 June | —The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopts Resolution 1456 on the Functioning of Democratic Institutions in Azerbaijan. |
| 29-30 June | —Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan visits Baku. |
| 30 June-2 July | —A delegation of the Monitoring Group of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers visits Azerbaijan. |
| 6-7 July | —Talks are held with EU Special Representative for the Southern Caucasus Heikki Talvitie in Baku. |
| 11-15 July | —The cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group make a tour of the region. |
| 12-14 July | —Former U.S. State Secretary, Head of the National Institute of Democracy Madeleine Albright visits Azerbaijan. |
| 27-28 July | —U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky visits Azer-baijan. |
| 1-6 August | —Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mamediarov visits the U.S. |
| 21-23 August | —PACE Director René van der Linden visits Azerbaijan. |
| 26-27 August | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev makes a working visit to Kazan. |
| 27 August | —The Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents meet in Kazan. |
| 31 August | —Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Richard Lugar and Senator for Illinois Barack Obama visit Azerbaijan. |
| 31 August- | —State Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kim Traavik |
| 1 September | visits Azerbaijan. |
| 4-5 September | —Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis visits Azerbaijan. |
| 4-5 September | —OSCE Chairman and Foreign Minister of Slovenia Dimitrij Rupel visits Azer-
baijan. |
| 14-15 September | —EU Special Representative for the Southern Caucasus Heikki Talvitie visits Azerbaijan. |
| 23-24 September | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev makes an official visit to Bulgaria. |
| 2-4 October | —A Latvian delegation headed by its president, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, makes an official visit to Azerbaijan. |
| 6-8 October | —Chief of the Turkish General staff Hilmi Özkök visits Azerbaijan. |
| 12 October | —Official ceremony is held to launch the Georgian section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (Gardabani) oil pipeline. |
| 20 October | —Talks are held in Baku between Deputy U.S. State Secretary for Europe and Eurasia Daniel Fried and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev. |
| 27-29 October | —The EU Troika (representatives of Great Britain chairing in the European Union, of Austria—future chair of the EU, and of the European Commission) visit Azerbaijan. |
| 18 November | —Talks are held in Baku between NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus Robert Simmons and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev. |
| 22 November | —Talks are held in Baku between EU Special Representative for the Southern Caucasus Heikki Talvitie and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev. |
| 6-8 December | —Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev makes a working visit to Saudi Arabia. |
| 13 December | —Talks are held in Brussels between Azerbaijani foreign minister and representatives of the European Union. |
| 4 December | —The cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group meet with the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia (Ljubljana). |
| 14-17 December | —The cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group make a tour of the region. |
| 20 December | —The presidents of Azerbaijan and Iran meet in Nakhchyvan for the ceremony marking the beginning of deliveries of Iranian gas to the Nakhchyvan Autonomous Republic. |
| 14-16 January | —A U.S. Congress delegation pays a working visit to Georgia. |
| 24-30 January | —The country’s president participates in the World Economic Forum in Davos. |
| 26 January | —The country’s president presents an initiative to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly on peaceful settlement of the conflict in South Ossetia. |
| 26-29 January | —A delegation of the Council of Europe Venetian Commission visits Georgia. |
| 28 January | —Lamberto Zannier, director of the Conflict Prevention Center of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, visits Georgia. |
| 2-6 February | —NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus Robert Simmons visits Georgia. |
| 3-5 February | —Estonian Foreign Minister Kristina Ojuland visits Georgia. |
| 3-5 February | —An international conference called “The Southern Caucasus in the 21st Century” is held. |
| 13-16 February | —An international conference called “International Mission of the Community of Democracies” is held. |
| 17-18 February | —Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Georgia. |
| 19-21 February | —Secretary General of the Italian Foreign Ministry Umderto Vattani visits Georgia. |
| 3-6 March | —The Georgian president visits Italy. |
| 4 March | —The Georgian prime minister visits Azerbaijan. |
| 4 March | —Georgia’s naval fleet participates in the Blackseafor exercises. |
| 4-8 March | —Klaus Schumann, the Director General of Political Affairs Directorate of the Council of Europe, visits Georgia. |
| 5-6 March | —Belgian Chamber of Representatives Speaker Herman De Croo visits Georgia. |
| 8-10 March | —Chairman of the Georgian Parliament visits Belgium. |
| 10 March | —The country’s parliament adopts a resolution On Military Bases of the Russian Federation in Georgia’s Territory. |
| 10-12 March | —Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Razov visits Georgia. |
| 24-26 March | —The Georgian president visits Ukraine. |
| 28-30 March | —Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Shahin visits Georgia. |
| 31 March-1 April | —OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel visits Georgia. |
| 2 April | —Armenian President Robert Kocharian visits Georgia. |
| 4-9 April | —EU Special Representative for the Southern Caucasus Heikki Talvitie visits Georgia. |
| 9-10 April | —Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis visits Georgia. |
| 14-16 April | —Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis visits Georgia. |
| 18 April | —The country’s president participates in the GUAM summit in Kishinev. |
| 18 April | —The leaders of the GUAM countries adopt the Kishinev Declaration “In the Name of Democracy, Stability, and Development.” |
| 21-26 April | —Meeting of the Georgian-Iranian Commission on Economic, Trade, Scientific, and Technical Cooperation is held. |
| 24-26 April | —NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus Robert Simmons visits Georgia. |
| 25-26 April | —Iran’s First Vice President Mohammed Reza visits Georgia. |
| 28-30 April | —Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Artur Bagdasarian visits Georgia. |
| 4-5 May | —The country’s president visits the Netherlands. |
| 9-10 May | —U.S. President George Bush visits Georgia. |
| 12-14 May | —The country’s parliament chairman visits Latvia. |
| 15-17 May | —The country’s president participates in the Council of Europe summit in Warsaw. |
| 16-17 May | —Minister for Regional Development of Italy Enriko La Logia visits Georgia. |
| 25 May | —The country’s president participates in the ceremony for launching the Azerbaijan section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. |
| 25 May | —The presidents of Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey sign the Declaration on Creating the International Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku Rail Corridor. |
| 25-26 May | —Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga visits Georgia. |
| 26-30 May | —Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis visits Georgia. |
| 28-29 May | —The country’s parliament chairman participates in a meeting of the GUAM Parliamentary Assembly. |
| 31 May | —Lithuanian Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas visits Georgia. |
| 1-2 June | —Rumanian MOD State Secretary for Defense Policy Ion Mircea Plangu visits Georgia. |
| 1-3 June | —Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margarian visits Georgia. |
| 2-3 June | —Meeting of the heads of government of the CIS countries in Tbilisi. |
| 2-3 June | —Kyrgyzstan acting prime minister Adakhan Madumarov visits Georgia. |
| 2-3 June | —Moldovan Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev visits Georgia. |
| 2-3 June | —Kazakhstan Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov visits Georgia. |
| 7 June | —Speaker of the Lithuanian Seim Arturas Paulauskas visits Georgia. |
| 15-18 June | —The country’s president participates in the Economic Forum in Kiev. |
| 20 June | —The country’s parliament chairman visits China. |
| 22-24 June | —Norwegian Foreign Minister Kim Traavik visits Georgia. |
| 24-27 June | —The country’s president visits Monaco. |
| 30 June-1 July | —Ukrainian Foreign Minister Boris Tarasiuk visits Georgia. |
| 8-11 July | —International conference on conflict settlement is held in Batumi. |
| 11 July | —Personal representative of the OSCE chairman Mircha Joan visits Georgia. |
| 18-19 July | —The country’s prime minister visits Azerbaijan. |
| 30 July | —The country’s parliament chairman visits Finland. |
| 31 July | —The country’s president visits Sweden. |
| 1-2 August | —The country’s president participates in the Tallberg Forum in Stockholm. |
| 5-7 August | —Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Qiao Zonghuai visits Georgia. |
| 10-13 August | —Ukrainian President Viktor Iushchenko visits Georgia. |
| 13 August | —The Georgian and Ukrainian presidents participate in the ceremony on the adoption of the Declaration on Creating a Community of Democratic Choice. |
| 18 August | —The country’s president and parliament chairman participate in celebrating the anniversary of the Artek international youth center. |
| 20 August | —Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly President René van der Linden visits Georgia. |
| 23 August | —The country’s president visits Armenia. |
| 24-26 August | —The country’s president participates in the CIS summit in Kazan. |
| 27-28 August | —Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura visits Georgia. |
| 30 August- | —The country’s president visits Poland where he participates in the celebrations |
| 2 September | on the anniversary of the Solidarity movement. |
| 2 September | —A NATO information center opens in Batumi. |
| 3 September | —The country’s president meets with the heads of the diplomatic missions accredited in Georgia. |
| 6-9 September | —The country’s parliament chairman visits the U.S. |
| 10-16 September | —The country’s president participates in the 60th session of the U.N. General Assembly. |
| 10-22 September | —Multinational military exercises are held in Georgia within the framework of the Partnership for Peace program. |
| 12-15 September | —Turkish minister of state Kursad Tuzmen visits Georgia. |
| 26-28 September | —Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Panagiotis Skandalakis visits Georgia. |
| 26-29 September | —A NATO delegation visits Georgia to evaluate the Individual Partnership Action Plan. |
| 28-29 September | —Finnish President Tarja Halonen visits Georgia. |
| 29 September | —The country’s prime minister visits Armenia. |
| 2-4 October | —Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Kassymzhomart Tokaev visits Georgia. |
| 2-8 October | —A delegation of Latvian businessmen visits Georgia. |
| 4-6 October | —Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga visits Georgia. |
| 5-8 October | —The country’s prime minister visits Turkey. |
| 6-8 October | —The country’s parliament chairman participates in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. |
| 6-8 October | —Personal representative of the OSCE chairman Mircha Joan visits Georgia. |
| 11 October | —The country’s parliament adopts a resolution On the Situation Being Created in the Conflict Regions and the Peacekeeping Operations in the Country’s Territory. |
| 12 October | —Ceremony is held to launch the Georgian section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. |
| 19-21 October | —The country’s parliament chairman visits Ukraine. |
| 21-23 October | —The country’s prime minister visits the U.S. |
| 24-26 October | —NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus Robert Simmons visits Georgia. |
| 25-27 October | —The European Union Troika visits Georgia. |
| 26-29 October | —The country’s prime minister visits Austria. |
| 27-29 October | —Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev visits Georgia. |
| 28 October | —A business forum is held of the Asia-Pacific Region states’ chambers of commerce and industry. |
| 1-4 November | —Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Christian Strohal visits Georgia. |
| 9-11 November | —Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus visits Georgia. |
| 11 November | —The country’s prime minister visits Ukraine. |
| 14-18 November | —OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Rolf Ekeus visits Georgia. |
| 15-16 November | —A meeting of the TRACECA Coordinating Group is held in Georgia. |
| 16 November | —The country’s parliament chairman participates in a meeting of heads of parliament of the CIS states. |
| 18-19 November | —The country’s prime minister visits Kazakhstan. |
| 19 November | —U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan visits Georgia. |
| 22-23 November | —The presidents of Georgia, Ukraine, Rumania, and Estonia participate in the “New Wave of European Liberation: Democracy and Transformation” Forum in Tbilisi. |
| 29-30 November | —The first round of talks is held on coordinating the Action Plan within the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy. |
| 30 November | —The country’s president visits Ukraine. |
| 1-2 December | —The country’s president participates in the forum for founding the Community of Democratic Choice in Kiev. |
| 4 December | —The country’s prime minister and foreign minister participate in the work of the OSCE ministerial in Slovenia. |
| 7-10 December | —The country’s foreign minister participates in the work of the NATO ministerial. |
| 11-15 December | —The country’s foreign minister participates in the work of the Cooperation Council under the Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation with the EU. |
| 17 December | —A Georgian-Russian business forum is held. |
| 11-12 January | —Russian President Vladimir Putin makes a working visit to Almaty. |
| 17-19 January | —Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev makes an official visit to Moscow. |
| 26-27 January | —Fourth (special) meeting of the Antiterrorist Committee of the U.N. Security Council (Almaty). |
| 28-29 January | —Kazakhstan participates in the 16th meeting of the Special Working Group (SWG) to draw up a Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea (Ashghabad). |
| 2 February | —Third meeting of the European Union-Kazakhstan Subcommittee on Justice and Law and Order (Astana). |
| 2 February | —Majilis approves the draft law On International Agreements of the Republic of Kazakhstan. |
| 8 February | —The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) makes a decision to raise Kazakhstan’s rating and transfer the republic from the 5th to the 4th risk group. |
| 14-15 February | —Current chairman of the OSCE, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Slovenia Dimitrij Rupel, visits Kazakhstan. |
| 21-22 February | —23rd meeting of the Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (COMSTECH) (Almaty). |
| 22 February | —Annual conference on planning a Working Program of NATO Partnership opens (Almaty). |
| 25 February | —Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the SCO member states. |
| 28 February | —Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry, U.N. resident-coordinator, permanent representative of the UNDP and UNFPA, and representative of UNICEF in Kazakhstan sign action plans between the Kazakhstan Government and U.N. Departments for 2005-2009. |
| 9 March | —A round table on Kazakhstan opens in London at the British Political Science Center of the Institute of Economic Relations. |
| 14 March | —AO KazMunaiGaz Oil Company and OAO LUKoil founds OOO Caspian Oil and Gas Company joint venture in the Russian Federation. |
| 14-18 March | —Parliament Senate Chairman N. Abykaev makes an official visit to Belgium. |
| 15 March | —Kazakhstan Supreme Court recognizes the Asbat al-Ansar, Muslim Brothers, Taliban, Boz gurd, Zhamaat of Central Asian mojahedin, Lashkar-i-Tayba, and the Society of Social Reforms international organizations as terrorist and bans their activity in Kazakhstan. |
| 15 March | —Annual conference on the Closed Nuclear Centers Partnership Program (CNCP) organized by the British Ministry of Trade and Industry (settlement of Alatau, near Almaty). |
| 19 March | —Decision of the British Ministry of Trade and Industry to render support in building a nuclear technopark in the town of Kurchatov under the Closed Nuclear Centers Partnership Program. |
| 29-31 March | —U.N. international assembly on the role of international, including regional and subregional, organizations in carrying out the Almaty Action Program (AAP) for developing countries without access to the sea (Almaty). |
| 30 March | —The founding documents of AO Joint Kazakhstan-Russian Baiterek Venture for creating a space missile complex are signed (Astana). |
| 31 March | —Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili makes an official visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 4 April | —First meeting of the Kazakhstan-Chinese subcommittee on cooperation in power engineering (Astana). |
| 6 April | —Sixth meeting of the Republic of Kazakhstan-European Union Cooperation Committee is held in Brussels. |
| 6 April | —Fourth meeting of the foreign ministers of the member states of the Asian Cooperation Dialog (ACD), attended by Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokaev (Islamabad). |
| 14 April | —A scientific-practical conference on the Investment Climate of Kazakhstan is held at the London School of Business. |
| 20 April | —First working meeting on the Kalkan project created on the initiative of the Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization) General Secretariat is held in Almaty. |
| 21-23 April | —Fourth Eurasian Media Forum (Almaty). |
| 3-4 May | —International conference on Openness of Information: Kazakhstani and International Experience, organized by the Kazakhstan Transparency Foundation in partnership with the F. Ebert Foundation (Almaty). |
| 11 May | —Consultations of the Kazakhstan and Chinese foreign ministry representatives; meeting of the Secretariat of the Committee on Cooperation between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the PRC (Beijing). |
| 16-17 May | —Meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev in Cheliabinsk. |
| 18-19 May | —Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko makes an official visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 23-24 May | —First round of the talks between Kazakhstan and Chinese representatives on Kazakhstan’s entry into the WTO (Beijing). |
| 24 May | —The Kazakhstan president signs the Law on Ratification of the Treaty on the Status of the Fundamental Legislative Principles of the Eurasian Economic Community, and the Procedure for Developing, Adopting, and Implementing Them. |
| 24-25 May | —Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev makes a state visit to Azerbaijan. |
| 25 May | —Nursultan Nazarbaev participates in the ceremony to open the Azerbaijani section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline. |
| 26 May | —Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes an official visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 30-31 May | —Ukrainian President Viktor Iushchenko makes an official visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 1-2 June | —Third meeting of the Secretariat of the Congress of World and Traditional Religions (Almaty). |
| 2 June | —Second meeting of the secretaries of the SCO member states’ Security Councils (Astana). |
| 3 June | —Kazakhstan Foreign Minister K. Tokaev and Russian Federation Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sign the Description of the Passage of the State Border and Map Sheets of the State Border (Astana). |
| 15 June | —Meeting between Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev and Chairman
of the Open Society Institute and Head of the Soros Foundation George
Soros. |
| 15 June | —The Majilis of the parliament approves draft laws aimed at intensifying state control over the activity of foreign and international non-commercial organizations. |
| 16 June | —Meeting of the Kazakhstan-Russia Business Club (Moscow). |
| 21 June | —The third annual international conference on security is held in Almaty. |
| 21 June | —Kazakhstan’s Channel 31 television and radio company acquires the Independent Bishkek Television Company (IBT). |
| 23 June | —Meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of permanent representatives in the NATO-Kazakhstan format (Brussels). |
| 23 June | —A Kazakhstan delegation participates in the work of the 105th and 106th sessions of the Customs Cooperation Council at the headquarters of the World Customs Organization (Brussels). |
| 3-4 July | —PRC Chairman Hu Jintao makes an official visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 5 July | —The tenth (anniversary) meeting of the heads of SCO member states is held in Astana. |
| 6 July | —A meeting between Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev and Russian President Vladimir Putin is held in Astana. |
| 18-20 July | —Bilateral consultations on Kazakhstan’s entry into the World Trade Organization at the Directorate-General of the Commission of European Trade Communities. |
| 29 July | —Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev receives Head of the Russian Federation Presidential Administration Dmitri Medvedev. |
| 1 August | —Almaty is nominated as the capital for the winter Olympic Games of 2014. |
| 9 August | —Opening of the SAR embassy in Kazakhstan. |
| 15 August | —Kazakhstan and Turkey sign a statement on completing bilateral talks on access to the Kazakhstani market of goods and services on mutually acceptable conditions for both sides (Ankara). |
| 22 August | —Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Tokaev visits the United States, meets with U.S. State Secretary Condoleezza Rice. |
| 25 August | —Meeting between Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Tokaev and U.S. Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld. |
| 26 August | —Nursultan Nazarbaev participates in the regular summit of CIS states (Kazan). |
| 30 August | —International conference devoted to the 10th anniversary of the Kazakhstan Constitution (Astana). |
| 1 September | —Completion of the Kazakhstan-Chinese talks on Kazakhstan’s entry into the WTO (Beijing). |
| 6-7 September | —Former U.S. president Bill Clinton makes a private visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 7 September | —A regional expert Council for Central Asia is created in Kazakhstan. |
| 8 September | —A Kazakhstan parliamentary delegation takes part in the work of the Second World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments (New York). |
| 12 September | —A Kazakhstan parliamentary delegation meets with members of the British Group–Inter-Parliamentary Union (London). |
| 12-13 September | —A Kazakhstan delegation participates in high-level consultations of the OSCE member states (Vienna). |
| 19 September | —A Kazakhstan delegation participates in the annual assembly of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (Warsaw). |
| 21 September | —Memorandum on the transfer to the Kazakhstan People’s Bank of the powers of the EBRD for implementing the Small Business Program. |
| 27-30 September | —Third World Kazakh Kurultai (Astana). |
| 1 October | —15th meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization (Astana). |
| 2-4 October | —Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev makes an official visit to Georgia. |
| 6 October | —Robert Simmons, special representative of NATO Secretary General for Central Asia and the Caucasus, visits Kazakhstan. |
| 6 October | —Meeting of the Council of Heads of Member States of the Central Asian Cooperation Organization (St. Petersburg). |
| 8 October | —International symposium called Kazakhstan—Strengthening International Cooperation for Peace and Security (Ust-Kamenogorsk). |
| 9 October | —A delegation of U.S. Congress deputies visits Kazakhstan. |
| 10 October | —A delegation of the British-Kazakhstani Parliamentary Group visits Kazakhstan. |
| 13 October | —U.S. State Secretary Condoleezza Rice visits Kazakhstan. |
| 13 October | —Kyrgyz Prime Minister Felix Kulov makes a working visit to Astana. |
| 13 October | —7th Central Asian Mass Media Conference called Pluralism in the Mass Media and on the Internet organized under the auspices of the OSCE (Almaty). |
| 15 October | —Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger makes a private visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 26 October | —The Kazakhstan president signs the Law on Ratification of the Security Agreement between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
| 26 October | —Kazakhstan participates in the meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the SCO member states (Moscow). |
| 26 October | —The Kazakhstan president signs the Law on Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Russian Federation on KazSat. |
| 26-28 October | —Jan Kubish, EU special representative for Central Asia, makes a working visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 27 October | —Kazakhstan Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov makes official visit to the Russian Federation. |
| 1 November | —The U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution on International Cooperation and Coordination of Activity Aimed at Rehabilitation of the Population and Environment, and Economic Development of the Semipalatinsk Region in Kazakhstan. |
| 1 November | —Appeal of OSCE representative on freedom of the press to the Kazakhstan Government to cancel the rules for registering domain names for websites. |
| 3 November | —General John Abizaid, Commander of the U.S. Central Command, visits Kazakhstan. |
| 3 November | —Tenth meeting of the Kazakhstan-British Trade and Industrial Council (Astana). |
| 8 November | —Abdallah II bin al-Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, makes an official visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 14 November | —Talks between the Kazakhstan leadership and head of Russia’s Gazprom Alexei Miller. |
| 14 November | —Joining up of the Kazakhstan and Chinese sections of the oil pipeline from Kazakhstan to China at the border Dostyk-Alashankou pass. |
| 17 November | —Nursultan Nazarbaev makes an official visit to Ukraine. |
| 19 November | —Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli makes an official visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 23 November | —Ratification of the Treaty on Kazakhstan-Russian State Border by the Senate of the Kazakhstan Parliament and Federation Council of the Russian Federation. |
| 23 November | —Statement is signed on completing the talks between Kazakhstan and Japan on access to the Kazakhstan market of goods and services. |
| 23 November | —Second international conference on the Development of Petrochemistry in Kazakhstan: Current State and Future Prospects (Astana). |
| 3 December | —Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev signs the Law on Ratification of the International Pact on Civilian and Political Rights. |
| 12-14 December | —Meeting of the Special Working Group (SWG) of the Conference for Cooperation and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (Almaty). |
| 14 December | —Statement of the special authorized representative of the North Atlantic Alliance Organization Robert Simmons on signing an individual action plan with Kazakhstan under NATO’s Partnership for Peace program. |
| 14 December | —Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev signs the Law on Ratification of the Framework Convention on the Protection of the Maritime Environment in the Caspian Sea. |
| 20 December | —U.S. CIA Director Porter Goss visits Kazakhstan. |
| 22 December | —Fifth meeting of the Inter-House Parliamentary Commission (IPC) on cooperation between the Majilis of the Kazakhstan parliament and the Russia Federation State Duma. |
| 31 March | —OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel pays a working visit to Kyrgyzstan. |
| 8-9 April | —European Union Commission Deputy General Director for Foreign Relations Michael Lee pays a working visit to Kyrgyzstan. |
| 15 April | —The republic’s foreign minister pays a working visit to Moscow. |
| 22 April | —Acting president and prime minister of the republic, Kurmanbek Bakiev, pays a working visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 22-25 April | —The republic’s foreign minister makes a working visit to Uzbekistan. |
| 7-9 May | —Acting president and prime minister of the republic, Kurmanbek Bakiev, pays a working visit to the Russian Federation. |
| 10-13 May | —The republic’s foreign minister makes a working visit to China. |
| 18 May | —Acting president and prime minister of the republic, Kurmanbek Bakiev, pays a working visit to Tajikistan. |
| 25-27 May | —A Kyrgyzstan delegation participates in an international conference on strengthening subregional economic cooperation in Central Asia and the future role of the U.N. Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) organized in Astana, Kazakhstan. |
| 29-30 May | —Acting president and prime minister of the republic, Kurmanbek Bakiev, pays a working visit to Austria. |
| 3 June | —A meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of State is held. |
| 13-16 June | —The republic’s foreign minister makes a working visit to the U.S. |
| 22 June | —A meeting of the Interstate Council of the Eurasian Economic Community is held with the participation of acting president and prime minister of the republic, Kurmanbek Bakiev, in Moscow. |
| 23 June | —A session of the Collective Security Council with the participation of acting president and prime minister of the republic, Kurmanbek Bakiev, is held in Moscow. |
| 5 July | —A SCO summit is held in Astana. |
| 25-26 July | —U.S. Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld pays a working visit to
Kyrgyzstan. |
| 2 August | —Acting Vice Prime Minister of the republic Adahan Madumarov visits Almaty. |
| 9-10 August | —OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut pays a working visit to Kyrgyzstan. |
| 23 August | —A meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the CIS Republics is held in Moscow. |
| 26 August | —A regular session of the Council of CIS Heads of State is held in Kazan. |
| 4-5 September | —Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev pays a working visit to the Russian Federation. |
| 7-10 September | —The Kyrgyzstan Days festival is celebrated in Moscow. |
| 7-10 September | —Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev participates in a U.N. summit and the 60th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. |
| 27 September | —A meeting of the Interstate Council of EurAsEC is held at the head of state level in Dushanbe. |
| 29 September | —Kyrgyz Prime Minister Felix Kulov pays a working visit to Moscow. |
| 11 October | —An assembly of ministers of foreign economic and foreign trade departments of the SCO member states is held in Dushanbe. |
| 11 October | —U.S. State Secretary Condoleezza Rice pays a working visit to Kyrgyzstan. |
| 13 October | —Kyrgyz Prime Minister Felix Kulov pays a working visit to Kazakhstan. |
| 26 October | —A meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the SCO Member States is held in Moscow. |
| 31 October | —A meeting of the High Level Group of the CSTO Member States is held in Moscow. |
| 18-24 November | —The republic’s parliamentary delegation headed by Parliament Speaker Omurbek Tekebaev visits Thailand for the Sixth Assembly of the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace. |
| 25 November | —A meeting of the heads of government of the CIS republics is held in Moscow. |
| 30 November | —A meeting of the Council of Foreign and Defense Ministers and Secretaries of the Councils of Security of the CSTO Member States is held in Moscow. |
| 5-7 December | —A Kyrgyzstan delegation participates in a special OIC summit in Mecca. |
| 5-6 December | —A regular meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of OSCE Member States is held in Ljubljana. |
| 6 December | —The republic’s defense minister, Ismail Isakov, visits India. |
| 13-18 December | —A WTO ministerial conference is held in Hong Kong. |
| 21-24 December | —Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Alikbek Jekshenkulov pays a working visit to
China. |
| 26 December | —Kyrgyz Prime Minister Felix Kulov pays a working visit to Moscow. |
| 19 January | —Members of the Paris Group discuss problems of protecting the border with Afghanistan after the Russian border guards transfer control of it to their Tajik colleagues (Dushanbe). |
| 26 January | —The Majlisi namoiandagon, the country’s lower house of parliament,
ratifies the Tajik-Russian agreements, including on creating a Russian military base in Tajikistan, entered during Vladimir Putin’s visit to
Dushanbe. |
| 1 February | —The RusAl company (RF) and Lehmeyer International (Germany) sign an agreement on a feasibility report for building the Rogun Hydropower Plant (Dushanbe). |
| 16 February | —The participants of an international conference discuss assistance to Tajikistan in protecting the border with Afghanistan after control is transferred from the Russian to the Tajik border guards. The U.S. announces it will allot
$9.5 million for this purpose (Dushanbe). |
| 16 February | —The Tajik Ministry of Power Engineering and Russia’s RAO Unified Energy Systems sign a document on founding the Sangtuda-1 Open Joint-Stock Company. |
| 15 March | —Tajik-Egyptian talks are held in Dushanbe at the foreign minister level. |
| 23-24 March | —Tajik Prime Minister Akil Akilov participates in the work of the EurAsEC Council of Heads of State (Astana). |
| 2-6 April | —CSTO command staff exercises “Rubezh-2005” are held in Tajikistan, during which Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov meets CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordiuzha and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov. |
| 19 April | —OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel visits Tajikistan. |
| 19-23 April | —Tajikistan Defense Minister Sherali Khairulloev pays an official visit to
Iran. |
| 22-23 April | —During the Asian-African summit, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov meets with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, and First Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref in Jakarta. |
| 27 April | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov pays his first official visit to Afghanistan. |
| 16-17 May | —Transfer begins of sections of the country’s state border with Afghanistan previously protected by Russian border guards to the control of the Tajik border guards. |
| 18 May | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov meets with acting president of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev. The sides emphasize that the events in Andijan are internal in nature and not one Central Asian country is interested in destabilization of the situation in Uzbekistan (Dushanbe). |
| 22-23 May | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov visits South Korea. |
| 15 June | —Head of State Emomali Rakhmonov discusses questions with Director
of the Central Bank of Iran Ebrahim Sheibani relating to Iran’s investments
in the building of Sangtuda-2 Hydropower Plant, as well as the
development prospects for bilateral cooperation in banking and financing (Dushanbe). |
| 16-17 June | —An international banking conference is held in Dushanbe, during which Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov announces that the Tajik government is removing all restrictions on the activity of foreign banks in the republic. |
| 18 June | —Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmonov and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai adopt a decision on building a stationary bridge over the border river Panj. |
| 5 July | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov participates in a SCO summit
(Astana). |
| 21 July | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov and PRC Vice Premier Wu Yi discuss questions relating to China’s participation in the rehabilitation and development of Tajikistan’s transportation corridors and telecommunication networks. |
| 26 July | —Head of State Emomali Rakhmonov and Tajik Defense Minister Sherali Khairulloev hold talks with U.S. Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld, who arrived in Tajikistan on an official visit (Dushanbe). |
| 3 August | —On the eve of the parliamentary election in Afghanistan, France deploys five Mirage bombers in Tajikistan and replenishes its military contingent in the republic with another 400 servicemen. |
| 9-12 August | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov pays an official visit to Thailand. |
| 24 August | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov receives General John Abizaid, Commander of the U.S. Central Command (Dushanbe). |
| 7 September | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov holds talks with EU Special Representative for Central Asia Jan Kubish in Dushanbe. |
| 14-15 September | —Head of State Emomali Rakhmonov participates in a U.N. summit in New York. |
| 26 September | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov and Russian Vice Premier Viktor Khristenko participate in an official ceremony to restart construction of the Rogun Hydropower Plant. |
| 6 October | —Head of State Emomali Rakhmonov and Russian President Vladimir Putin discuss the development of bilateral cooperation in Moscow. |
| 11 October | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov and French President Jacques Chirac discuss the development of bilateral cooperation in Paris. |
| 13 October | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov and Foreign Minister Talbak
Nazarov hold talks with U.S. State Secretary Condoleezza Rice in
Dushanbe. |
| 13 November | —Head of State Emomali Rakhmonov and Armenian President Robert Kocharian discuss the development prospects of bilateral relations in
Erevan. |
| 30 November | —Tajik-Russian economic forum is held in Dushanbe. |
| 7-8 December | —Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov participates in the Third (Special) Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). During the summit, he holds talks with President of the Islamic Development Bank Ahmad Mohammad Ali, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Afghanistan President Hamid
Karzai, and also meets with King of Bahrain Sheik Hamad bin Isa in
Mecca. |
| 14-15 December | —Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov pays an official visit to
Tajikistan. “Tajikistan is a country in which financial resources can be invested,” he stated after his meeting with the republic’s president, Emomali Rakhmonov. |
| 24-30 December | —Chairman of the Majlisi namoiandagon, the Tajik lower chamber of parliament, Saidullo Khairulloev pays an official visit to Iran. |
| 3 January | —A contract is signed on delivering gas to Ukraine for 2005. |
| 17 January | —Talks are held with an official delegation from Japan; opening of the Japanese Embassy in Turkmenistan (Ashghabad). |
| 25 January | —Experts meet to discuss environmental safety in the Caspian Sea. |
| 28-29 January | —16th meeting of the Special Working Group to prepare the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea. |
| 9 February | —Meeting between Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov and
Deputy Assistant to U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Laura Kennedy. |
| 28 February | —Intergovernmental talks with a PRC delegation (Ashghabad). |
| 22-23 March | —Ukrainian president visits Ashghabad. |
| 29-30 March | —53rd meeting of the Council of Commanders of Border Troops of the CIS Member States (Ashghabad). |
| 29 March | —Turkmenistan joins several international U.N. documents. |
| 12 April | —Meeting between the Turkmen and Iranian presidents. |
| 15-19 April | —Talks and entering an agreement with Gazprom on prices for Turkmen gas delivered to Russia. |
| 20 April | —Talks between Saparmurat Niyazov and OSCE Chairman Dimitrij Rupel (Ashghabad). |
| 8-11 May | —Saparmurat Niyazov visits Moscow, talks with Russian, Ukrainian, and Chinese leaders. |
| 12 May | —Meeting of the European Union-Turkmenistan committee (Ashghabad). |
| 17 May | —Talks between Saparmurat Niyazov and a Turkish governmental delegation (Ashghabad). |
| 17 May | —Turkmenistan signs an Agreement with the IAEA on applying guarantees with respect to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Additional Protocol to it (Vienna). |
| 20 May | —Forum of the Humanitarian Association of Turkmen of the World (Ashghabad). |
| 23 May | —Turkmen-German Economic Forum (Ashghabad). |
| 31 May | —OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Rolf Ekeus visits Turkmenistan. |
| 6 June | —A delegation of the CPC Central Committee visits Ashghabad. |
| 20, 24 June | —Saparmurat Niyazov criticizes Ukraine’s unconscientious execution of contracts on the delivery of gas and puts forward new payment conditions. |
| 28 June | —Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Jacques Forster visits Ashghabad. |
| 19-20 July | —A PRC governmental delegation visits Ashghabad. |
| 23 August | —Saparmurat Niyazov meets with the Chief of U.S. Central Command, General John Abizaid (Ashghabad). |
| 26 August | —Saparmurat Niyazov’s message is read at the CIS summit in Kazan about a change in format for Turkmenistan’s participation in the CIS to associated membership. |
| 21-22 September | —Turkmen-Afghan talks on setting up the border (Ashghabad). |
| 29 September | —Saparmurat Niyazov meets with EU special representative for Central Asia Jan Kubish (Ashghabad). |
| 5 October | —Saparmurat Niyazov meets with U.S. Under Secretary of State for
Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph
(Ashghabad). |
| 12 October | —Saparmurat Niyazov sharply criticizes official Kiev’s violation of
obligations at the talks with representatives of the Ukrainian fuel and energy complex. |
| 17 October | —Turkmen-Indian intergovernmental talks (Ashghabad). |
| 20-21 October | —Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov makes a working visit to Turkmenistan. |
| 26-27 October | —Saparmurat Niyazov meets Ukrainian Prime Minister Ekhanurov. |
| 9 November | —Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki visits Ashghabad. |
| 18 November | —Saparmurat Niyazov announces the new prices for exported natural gas. |
| 1 December | —Turkmen-Kazakhstan talks on settling debts. |
| 1-4 December | —Turkmenistan governmental delegation visits China. |
| 11-12 December | —Head of Russia’s Gazprom Alexei Miller visits Ashghabad. |
| 22 December | —Talks with Ukrainian Minister of Fuel and Energy Plachkov and Chairman
of Ukraine’s Naftogaz National Joint-Stock Company Ivchenko
(Ashghabad). |
| 26 December | —Meeting of the Turkmen-Japanese committee on business cooperation. |
| 29 December | —Agreement is reached with Gazprom on delivering gas for 2006. |
