| February 2009 |
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is considering Iran's bid to become a full member of the regional security bloc, a SCO source said on Tuesday. 
The Kyrgyz parliament is set to discuss on February 19 the termination of a deal that allows the U.S. to use the country's Manas airbase. 
Iran's defense minister is likely to discuss the delivery of Russian S-300 air defense systems to the Islamic Republic during a meeting with his Russian counterpart on Tuesday, a business daily said. 
Russia's two main stock exchanges, MICEX and the RTS, opened lower on Tuesday following negative macroeconomic data published by the country's top statistics body. 
The death toll in southern Australia's recent bushfires has reached 200, Australia's ABC television company reported on Tuesday, citing local police. 
Kosovo Albanians are to hold events to mark the first year of their unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia on Tuesday. 
Media reports are exaggerating the scope of an oil spill off the coast of Ireland, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Tuesday. 
Russia's deputy prime minister, Igor Sechin, has started talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Qishan in Beijing as part of a third round of energy talks between the two countries. 
A new round of talks on security and stability in and around the former Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia is set to begin in Geneva on Tuesday. 



