* The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a draft resolution on Iran, revised to let Russia continue cooperating with the Islamic Republic in the nuclear industry
* Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev told a Russian radio station his country may stop importing natural gas from Russia following Moscow's announcement it will double the price as of 2007
* Turkmen opposition leaders appealed to Ukraine's government and public to help them come to power in their Central Asian country following the death of President Saparmurat Niyazov, and pledged steady and cheap gas deliveries in return
* Russia's Space Forces said the launch of a Meridian communications satellite on a Soyuz-2 booster rocket, rescheduled for Saturday, will again have to be postponed owing to software failure
* Russia formally completed the withdrawal of a military garrison from the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, by handing over control of its headquarters to Georgia's Defense Ministry
