{"id":24242,"date":"2026-10-19T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/19\/us-secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-arrives-in-samarkand-with-200-member-delegation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T08:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:15:15","slug":"us-secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-arrives-in-samarkand-with-200-member-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/19\/us-secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-arrives-in-samarkand-with-200-member-delegation\/","title":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives in Uzbekistan&#8217;s Samarkand with 200-strong delegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, last night, leading a delegation of 200 businesspeople and officials.<\/p>\n<p>The trip is taking place as part of the meeting of foreign ministers from five Central Asian countries and the United States, known as C5+1. At the meeting, which provides a good opportunity to discuss the development of economic innovation, trade cooperation and the resolution of regional disputes, Rubio highlighted its importance in strengthening peace and stability between the United States and its Central Asian neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>A Reuters report says the main aim of the visit is to expand the United States&#8217; economic and political ties with Central Asian countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives in Samarkand with a 200-member delegation for C5+1 talks with Central Asian states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}