Saida Mirziyoyeva – the eldest daughter of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and now head of Uzbekistan’s presidential administration – is expected to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday.
On Monday, she met at Mar-a-Lago with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for South and Central Asia, Ambassador Sergio Gor.
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Saida Mirziyoyeva, 32, has served as a presidential assistant since August 2023. In June last year, she was appointed head of the Presidential Administration.
The meeting with Rubio comes as US-Uzbek ties deepen on the economic front. In November 2025, Trump hosted Mirziyoyev, along with other Central Asian leaders, at the C5+1 summit in Washington.
Under a bilateral agreement signed between Washington and Tashkent, Uzbekistan plans to purchase and invest $35 billion in the US over the next three years and more than $100 billion over the next decade across several sectors.
With the Strait of Hormuz still effectively restricted, Washington may look to partners like Uzbekistan to help strengthen alternative trade and transit routes, especially the Trans-Caspian “Middle Corridor.” For Tashkent, this creates a chance to depend less on southern routes, even as trade with Iran grows, and to present itself as a more important partner for the United States at a time of wider regional tension.
