{"id":306199,"date":"2026-10-19T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=306199"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:50:57","slug":"the-u-s-seeks-to-secure-a-strategic-presence-in-central-asia-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/306199\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. seeks to secure a strategic presence in Central Asia as well"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US companies were preparing to announce new agreements in Uzbekistan as Washington seeks to expand its economic presence in Central Asia and diversify critical mineral supplies, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/10\/19\/us-is-coming-to-central-asia-with-deals-to-stay-rubio-tells-euronews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters during a visit to Samarkand, Rubio said the deals could mark the start of broader US engagement with a region he believes American policymakers have paid too little attention to.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio said nearly 300 American businesses were represented in Samarkand, where they were discussing agreements potentially worth billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that industries and technologies likely to shape the 21st century would increasingly rely on critical minerals, making supply-chain diversification an international priority rather than solely a US concern.<\/p>\n<p>He said that for resource-rich countries, developing mineral deposits and processing capacity responsibly could also serve their own economic interests.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Ukrainian claims that the US had briefly stopped sharing intelligence used to warn of Russian missile attacks, Rubio denied any interruption.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There has been no pause,&rdquo; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US companies were preparing to announce new agreements in Uzbekistan as Washington seeks to expand its economic presence in Central Asia and diversify critical mineral supplies, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Euronews. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Samarkand, Rubio said the deals could mark the start of broader US engagement with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":306189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306200,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306199\/revisions\/306200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}