Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to the Press

Marco Rubio, Secretary of State Joint Base Andrews Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to the Press Remarks October 17, 2026 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary? SECRETARY RUBIO: What’s going on? QUESTION: Nice and chilly, right? SECRETARY RUBIO: It’s all right. QUESTION: With everything going on in the world and with crisis all over, why are you choosing now, at this time, to go to Uzbekistan? SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, it’s the time of year that worked for those leaders. It’s not just Uzbekistan, it’s the other four countries from Central Asia. This is an important relationship. I mean, one of the things that suffers is the strategic business. You’re always visiting someplace where there’s a crisis or there’s a problem or there’s a – you’re going because there’s a conference. But there’s countries you’d like to get to because we want to build our relationships with them. And so that’s what we did a couple weeks ago when we went to Greece and other places like that, and earlier, a few weeks earlier than that, we went to Latin America, and now to Central Asia. So – and the chance to see – it was the date that worked to get all five of the leaders together, all five of the foreign ministers from

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