Marco Rubio: “They did believe he needed to.”

We view the – the United States views the relationship between Uzbekistan and Central Asia as paramount to our national security and to our economic prosperity.

What we want to accomplish at this meeting this week will put our countries further down the path of long-term prosperity and security.

Our goal there is to end this war. That’s what we want to do.

The diesel that Putin was going to sell, they were (going to) make it available to the global market one way or the other. The only difference is how much of it the United States was going to get.