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On April 23, 1998, Turkmen president
History of Turkmenistan - U.S. relations
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bilateral relations
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between Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...
and the United States
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.
History
On April 23, 1998, Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov
Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov (19 February 1940 – 21 December 2006) was a Turkmenistani politician who led Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. He was the Secretary (title), first secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenist ...
met with US president Bill Clinton
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in Washington D.C.
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, resulting in a joint statement where both countries stated they aimed to "strengthen political, economic, security, commercial and agricultural ties".
For several years, Turkmenistan was a key player in the U.S. Caspian Basin Energy Initiative, which sought to facilitate negotiations between commercial partners and the Governments of Turkmenistan, Georgia
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, Azerbaijan
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, and Turkey
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to build a pipeline
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under the Caspian Sea
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and export Turkmen gas to the Turkish domestic energy market and beyond—the so-called Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline
The Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (, ) is a proposed subsea pipeline between Türkmenbaşy in Turkmenistan, and Baku in Azerbaijan. According to some proposals it would also include a connection between the Tengiz Field in Kazakhstan, the Sangach ...
(TCGP). However, the Government of Turkmenistan
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essentially removed itself from the negotiations in 2000 by refusing all offers by its commercial partners and making unrealistic demands for billion-dollar "pre-financing." Following a tripartite summit with the presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan in May 2007 in which gas was a major topic, however, the new President Berdimuhamedow resurrected the idea of a Trans-Caspian gas pipeline, explicitly refusing to rule out the possibility of constructing such a pipeline in the future.
In 2010, the Obama administration began its annual bilateral consultations (ABCs) with all the countries of Central Asia
Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...
, with the first US-Turkmen ABC being held in Ashgabat
Ashgabat (Turkmen language, Turkmen: ''Aşgabat'') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Kopet Dag, Kopetdag mountain range in Central Asia, approximately 50 km (30 ...
in June.
As a part of Donald Trump
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's travel bans in 2025, Turkmenistan faced a partial ban on visas to the United States, which included bans on tourist visas, student visas, or applications to live permanently in the U.S. The Trump administration cited a high rate of overstay by Turkmenistani citizens on their visas as the reason for the ban.
The U.S. Embassy
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and offices of USAID
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and the Peace Corps
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are located in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
See also
* Foreign relations of Turkmenistan *Foreign relations of the United States
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* List of ambassadors of Turkmenistan to the United States
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List of representatives
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See also
* Embassy of Turkmenistan, Washington, ...
References
External links
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United States
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