Embassy News

US Energy Envoys Examine Energy Cooperation in Turkmenistan

PAS No 215 
June 04, 2008

Ashgabat, June 4, 2008 – U.S. President George W. Bush’s Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Ambassador C. Boyden Gray and U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Ambassador Steven Mann are visiting Turkmenistan June 4-6 to hold high-level talks with Turkmen government officials on energy issues.  Cooperation in the area of energy is of particular interest to both the United States and Turkmenistan.   

C. Boyden Gray is concurrently Special Envoy for EU Affairs and Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy.  Prior to his appointment as Special Envoy in 2008, Mr. Gray served as U.S. Representative to the European Union in Brussels from 2006 to 2007.  He was also White House Counsel to President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. 

Ambassador Mann previously served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs from May 2006 to December 2007 and as the U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan from 1998 to 2001.