U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he discussed Uzbekistan’s reform agenda with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev during a closed-door meeting Wednesday in Tashkent. After Uzbekistan, Blinken heads to India for a G-20 foreign ministers’ meeting. The chief U.S. diplomat said he has no plan to meet separately on the sidelines with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey…
Russia’s former vassals in Central Asia feel “deep concern” about their security due to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The Biden administration is pledging to support the independence of the five Central Asian nations, in a not-so-subtle warning to the former Soviet states that Russia's value as a partner has been badly compromised by its year-old war against Ukraine.
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