U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Central Asia where he will visit and meet with officials from all five former Soviet republics following the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Blinken's visit to the capitals of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is his first to the region as the Biden administration's top diplomat.
The trip comes just days after the Feb. 24 anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, which has tested Moscow's influence in a region that also includes Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.by their new-found leverage as Moascow looks to their markets and trade routes in a bid to circumvent Western sanctions.
In Astana, Blinken will with meet with the five nations' foreign ministers individually and as a group, in what officials say is an effort to set out the benefits of U.S. cooperation to a region facing economic fallout from the conflict to the west.
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