| February 2009 |
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Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz announced on Thursday it might face problems paying for natural gas supplied by Russia's Gazprom as debts of Ukrainian utility companies grow. 
Ukraine's opposition party submitted a draft bill on Thursday demanding the foreign minister resign over threats to expel Russia's envoy, which strained relations with Moscow just weeks after a gas row. 
The Polish prime minister has invited the leaders of central and eastern EU states to discuss the region's economic challenges ahead of a March 1 EU-wide summit, European Voice said on Thursday. 
Somalia's new unity government will solve the problem of piracy by creating a maritime corridor through the country's territorial waters, the Somali ambassador to Russia said on Thursday. 
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is planning to hold a conference on the situation in Afghanistan in Moscow on March 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. 
President Hugo Chavez is expected to sign into law on Thursday an amendment to Venezuela's constitution removing term limits for the head of state and other elected officials. 
Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a presidential proposal to close a U.S. airbase used to support NATO operations in nearby Afghanistan since 2001. 
Kazakhstan plans to equip 10 battalions with S-300 air defense missile systems bought from Russia, with deliveries to begin in 2009, a senior military official said on Thursday. 
Beijing urged Russia on Thursday to conduct a thorough probe into the sinking of a Chinese cargo ship off Russia's Pacific Coast over the weekend, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said. 
Russian Navy experts and Irish environmentalists are to look into what caused a recent oil spill off Ireland, Russian Navy spokesman Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo said on Thursday. 
A total of 25 rail cars loaded with high-quality Russian flour have already arrived in the Afghan city of Hairaton, an economic and trade advisor to the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan said on Thursday. 
The Russian embassy in North Korea said on Thursday it was attempting to resolve the situation around a Russian ship earlier seized by North Korean authorities. 
NATO defense ministers begin on Thursday a two-day informal meeting in the Polish city of Krakow to discuss a number of urgent issues, including the situation in Afghanistan. 
The trial of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then-U.S. president George Bush in December is due to start in Baghdad on Thursday morning. 
A ferry collided with a cargo boat in southern Bangladesh on Thursday, killing at least one person with another 50 passengers still unaccounted for, national media said. 



