Embassy News

US Energy Envoys Continue Energy Cooperation In Turkmenistan

PAS No 218 
September 08, 2008

Ambassador C. Boyden Gray, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy	Ambassador Steven Mann, U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy

Ashgabat, September 8, 2008 – Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Ambassador C. Boyden Gray and U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Ambassador Steven Mann are visiting Turkmenistan September 7-8 to continue high-level talks with Turkmen government officials on energy issues.

C. Boyden Gray is concurrently Special Envoy for EU Affairs and Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy.  Prior to his appointment, 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.

Mr. Gray and Ambassador Mann's last visit to Turkmenistan was in early June of 2008.