Will The U.S. And Turkmenistan Finally Grow Closer?

In April 2023, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Ra?it Meredow, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Turkmenistan for a working meeting in Washington, D.C. The meeting followed the Blinken-Meredow meeting at the U.S.-Central Asia (C5+1) ministerial meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan in February 2023. The U.S. statement on the meeting lacked detail but highlighted the officials discussed the need to “rapidly reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector,” which is a priority for in the U.S. administration’s climate…