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Turkmenistan – United States relations arebilateral relations betweenTurkmenistan and theUnited States.
On April 23, 1998, Turkmen presidentSaparmurat Niyazov met with US presidentBill Clinton inWashington D.C., resulting in a joint statement where both countries stated they aimed to "strengthen political, economic, security, commercial and agricultural ties".[1]
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,Azerbaijan, andTurkey to build apipeline under theCaspian Sea and export Turkmen gas to the Turkish domestic energy market and beyond—the so-calledTrans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP). However, theGovernment of Turkmenistan 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 PresidentBerdimuhamedow 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 ofCentral Asia, with the first US-Turkmen ABC being held inAshgabat in June.[2]
As a part ofDonald Trump'stravel bans in 2025, Turkmenistan faced a partial ban on visas to the United States,[3] which included bans on tourist visas, student visas, or applications to live permanently in the U.S.[4] The Trump administration cited a high rate of overstay by Turkmenistani citizens on their visas as the reason for the ban.[5]
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The U.S.Embassy and offices ofUSAID and thePeace Corps are located in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
This article incorporatespublic domain material fromU.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets.United States Department of State.
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