{"id":246221,"date":"2026-10-18T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/rubio-arrives-in-samarkand-as-washington-seeks-closer-ties-with-central-asia\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:45:23","slug":"rubio-arrives-in-samarkand-as-washington-seeks-closer-ties-with-central-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/rubio-arrives-in-samarkand-as-washington-seeks-closer-ties-with-central-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio arrives in Samarkand as Washington seeks closer ties with Central Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US secretary of state will meet the foreign ministers of five Central Asian countries on Monday under the C5+1 format. Trade, investment, critical minerals and security are expected to feature in discussions, while more than 200 American business executives accompany the visit. <\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/10\/18\/rubio-arrives-in-samarkand-as-washington-seeks-closer-ties-with-central-asia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US secretary of state will meet the foreign ministers of five Central Asian countries on Monday under the C5+1 format. Trade, investment, critical minerals and security are expected to feature in discussions, while more than 200 American business executives accompany the visit. Read more at Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":246222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}