Central Asia news: Туркмения
01.02.2008 13:46 msk
Another US emissary, the third this year after Senator Richard Lugar and Admiral William Fallon of the US Central Command, was met in Ashkhabad in late January. Diplomat Stephen Mann, 56, is well known both in Turkmenistan, all over the Caspian region, and in the Caucasus. US Ambassador to Ashkhabad in the late 1990s, Mann then became US president's envoy in the Caspian region, senior advisor of the US Department of State on energy policy in the region, and finally US chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group for Karabakh conflict settlement. This time, Mann visited the capital of Turkmenistan in the capacity of coordinator of the Eurasian Energy Diplomacy of the US Department of State.
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