鲁比奥抵达撒马尔罕出席C5+1会议 200余名商界领袖随行 美方官员称美印贸易协议「基本谈成」
撒马尔罕——据路透社报道，美国国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥周日抵达乌兹别克斯坦撒马尔罕，与中亚五国领导人举行「C5+1」会晤——该机制由美国与乌兹别克斯坦、哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、塔吉克斯坦和土库曼斯坦组成。美国官员将资源丰富的中亚描述为值得比往届政府更多关注的地区；该地区位于中国、俄罗斯与伊朗之间。
美国国务院表示，200多名商界高管随鲁比奥前往乌兹别克斯坦。一名中亚外交官说，特朗普政府的商业努力集中在扩大对该地区稀土矿产资源的获取。特朗普去年11月曾在白宫接待中亚五国领导人，当时哈萨克斯坦同意加入《亚伯拉罕协议》；特朗普去年9月在联合国大会期间还与乌兹别克斯坦总统米尔济约耶夫会面。
一名地区外交官表示，中亚国家官员想知道美国将在多大程度上继续打击俄罗斯规避制裁的行为——五个中亚国家在与美国拉近关系的同时，都与莫斯科有深厚的历史联系，西方官员称该地区曾为违反美国与欧盟制裁的俄罗斯进出口提供便利。本月，特朗普与莫斯科达成进口俄罗斯柴油的协议，以在国会中期选举前压低国内燃料价格；上周五，他又豁免了相关立法条款——这些条款原本允许他对大量购买俄罗斯原油或协助莫斯科规避制裁的国家加征高额关税，专家称可能受影响的国家包括印度和哈萨克斯坦。
鲁比奥此行还将访问印度。一名美国官员上周五匿名表示，美印贸易协议「基本谈成」，协议有可能在鲁比奥此行期间宣布。印度是仅次于中国的全球第二大俄罗斯原油进口国。印度外交部发言人兰迪尔·贾伊斯瓦尔上周五表示，印度外长苏杰生与鲁比奥将于10月20日在孟买举行会谈，议题预计涵盖能源、贸易与投资、国防以及关键和新兴技术等双边合作领域。
（GSM 据路透社报道）
Rubio Arrives in Samarkand for C5+1 Talks With More Than 200 Business Leaders in Tow; US Official Says India Trade Deal Is "Pretty Much Done"
Samarkand — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio landed in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Sunday to meet leaders from the C5+1, the grouping that brings together the United States and Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, according to Reuters. US officials have portrayed resource-rich Central Asia — the region between China, Russia and Iran — as worthy of more attention than it received from President Donald Trump's predecessors.
More than 200 business executives are accompanying Rubio to Uzbekistan, the State Department said. A Central Asian diplomat said the Trump administration has focused its commercial efforts on expanding access to the area's rare earth mineral resources. Trump hosted the C5 leaders at the White House last November, when Kazakhstan agreed to join the Abraham Accords, and met with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the United Nations General Assembly last September.
One Central Asian diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said officials in the region are wondering to what extent the US will continue targeting Russian sanctions evasion: all five states, while drawing closer to the US, have deep historical ties with Moscow, and the region has facilitated Russian imports and exports that violate US and European Union sanctions, Western officials say. Trump struck a deal with Moscow this month to import Russian diesel, a move to lower domestic fuel prices before the congressional midterm elections. On Friday, Trump waived provisions of legislation that would have allowed him to slap massive tariffs on nations that buy significant amounts of Russian crude or otherwise help Moscow evade sanctions; among the nations that could have been affected, experts have said, are India and Kazakhstan.
India, which Rubio will visit after Uzbekistan, remains the world's No. 2 Russian crude importer after China. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, described the US-India trade deal on Friday as "pretty much done," raising the possibility that an agreement could be announced during the Rubio trip. India's foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Friday that External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Rubio will hold talks in Mumbai on October 20, expected to cover energy, trade and investment, defence, and critical and emerging technologies.
(GSM, via Reuters)
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