The EU‘s second-highest court annulled an EU asset freeze on Bank Tejarat and 40 Iranian shipping companies in January, finding fault with the legal grounds given by the EU.

The EU, as it has done in other cases, responded by re-listing Bank Tejarat and 32 of the Iranian shipping firms, including Hamburg-based Ocean Capital Administration GmbH, using new legal grounds.

The minister made the remarks during the meeting with EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn in Baku.

During the conference, the participants discussed the work carried out in the defense sector between the two countries, the prospects for bilateral cooperation, as well as the project of the “Work plan on military cooperation for 2016 between the armed forces of Azerbaijan and the US European Command.”

Joining the Saudi-led coalition could inflame a sectarian conflict at home where about a fifth of the population is Shi’ite and attacks on Shi’ites are increasing, further destabilising the nuclear-armed nation of 180 million people.

Pakistani intervention would probably also anger Shi’ite power Iran, which shares a long and porous border in a region roiling with its own separatist insurgency.

U.S. ally Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 180 million people, is fighting a Taliban insurgency in its northwest, a separatist insurgency along its Iranian border in the west, and has a heavily militarized and disputed border with arch rival India in the east.

(20.März) The head of U.S. naval forces in the Western Pacific said the U.S. would support an emerging plan to create multi-national patrols in the South China Sea that could bear similarities to anti-piracy patrols in the Strait of Malacca.

China and Vietnam have pledged to look for a peaceful resolution to their dispute in the South China Sea via talks, following a meeting between China‘s president and the head of Vietnam‘s Communist Party, state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday.

The ministry said Kazakhstan, as a part of international community, expresses its concern over the escalation of international tension in the Middle East, including the situation in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen.

Saudi Arabia and several Arab allies have imposed an air and naval blockade on Yemen as part of a two-week campaign to oust the Houthis, who have taken most of the country and forced President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to flee to Riyadh.

Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said that the Islamic Republic’s 34th fleet has started a journey to the Gulf of Aden and Bab el-Mandeb.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs Hossein Amirabdollahian and China‘s special envoy on Middle East affairs Gong Xiaosheng in a meeting on April 8 stressed peaceful resolution of Yemen crisis.

(4.April)

(6.April) Talking to journalists today, Khan said that Pakistan was dragged into US war by means of lies, ten years back and now the country must act wisely. „I fear anti-Muslim forces are dragging us into Saudi/Yemen conflict, but we should play role for peace“, he said.

(5.April) „We have decided to attend the joint session of Parliament tomorrow. The Yemen issue is very important I will attend myself and present my party‘s point of view,“ he said.

(5.April) Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has decided to hold a special session to discuss the Saudi-Yemen conflict amid speculation that Pakistan is likely to send troops to Saudi Arabia.

The PTI decision to end its boycott will end political tensions in Pakistan and will also strengthen the opposition‘s role in the parliament.

Wie der pakistanische Verteidigungsminister Khawaja Muhammad Asif dem Parlament am Montag bekanntgab, hätte Saudi-Arabien in Pakistan um Soldaten, Schiffe und Fluggeräte nachgefragt.

(19.Dezember 2014)