Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosts Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Yermek Kosherbayev, Kyrgyz Republic Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubaev, Tajikistan Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Turkmenistan Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov, and Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov for the C5+1 welcome reception at the Department of State, on November 5, 2025.
Rubio enters at 12:10 min
Central Asia is an important area historically and in the present. It was the home of the ancient Scythians, one of whom became the Buddha. In recent decades it was and maybe still is, conceptually, a major part of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s ‘Grand Chessboard’. ABN
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