As @SecRubio put it, “Energy is only as good as your ability to move it.” In Armenia, CPO Caroline Vik discussed the variety of energy projects DFC supports – like vital import infrastructure that improves our friends’ energy security and builds markets for U.S. natural gas.

The August 8, 2025 🇺🇸 brokered peace agreement placed 🇦🇲 on a path towards economic growth and prosperity. This week, Caroline Vik, Chief Policy Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), visited Armenia to explore opportunities for deeper U.S.-Armenian economic cooperation. Discussions with government officials and business representatives focused on strengthening commercial ties, expanding private-sector investment, and creating new opportunities for American and Armenian businesses. Watch Caroline Vik’s interview with RFE/RL here: 🔗 piped.video/MEsKyaGguPA?si=RdHt…

Reducing reliance on adversarial supply chains is essential to ensuring reliable access to lifesaving medicines and critical health technologies.

Under President @realDonaldTrump and @SecRubio, America is helping our Western Hemisphere neighbors grow by mobilizing private capital – free from the coercive hand of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Caroline Vik, Chief Policy Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), traveled to Azerbaijan this week to meet with Azerbaijani government and private sector representatives about digital, energy, transport, and connectivity projects in the Trans-Caspian region. During her visit to Baku, she met Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov and Minister of Digital Development and Transport Rashad Nabiyev. DFC is the international investment arm of the U.S. government. Its work in Azerbaijan pursues projects that support key infrastructure vital to U.S. and Azerbaijani strategic and economic interests. Vik’s visit to Baku is the latest in a series of high-level U.S. government visitors aimed at advancing U.S.-Azerbaijan cooperation and investment codified in our 2026 Charter on Strategic Partnership.

Securing critical mineral supply chains closer to home is a top DFC priority. That’s why DFC is supporting a tailings reprocessing project in Peru – helping unlock new sources of gallium, zinc, lead, and silver from a trusted partner in our Hemisphere. dfc.gov/investment-story/enh…

DFC investments power allied energy resilience and establish American energy and technology as the foundation of global energy security.

Great to welcome @DFCgov Chief Policy Officer Caroline Vik to Chișinău so soon after our meeting in New York during #UNGA. This was a very useful follow-up. Ms Vik moved quickly from our first conversation to a visit on the ground, and together with 🇺🇸Ambassador Burkhalter @USembMoldova and @GuvernulRMD colleagues we went deeper into concrete opportunities across energy and gas, logistics and transport infrastructure, and technology. Moldova wants more American investment and more U.S. companies building here. We are ready to work with DFC and the Embassy to turn these discussions into real projects and investments on the ground.

Today @DFCgov Chief Policy Officer Caroline Vik and Ambassador Burkhalter met with Prime Minister Tofan and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Energy, and Economic Development to explore U.S. investment opportunities in Moldova. They discussed how American private-sector investment can help build a more prosperous future for the Moldovan people.

.@DFC_CEO: The American free-market system is the engine that drives strength, growth, and goodwill around the world.

In a speech at @Heritage, @DFC_CEO contrasts China’s Belt and Road Initiative with DFC’s model of mobilizing private capital: “State capital acting alone can never build dynamic markets the way that private capital can.”

An America First agenda means working to ensure the United States wins every race – for technological leadership, energy abundance, manufacturing might, and more. 🦅

At the C5+1 Ministerial, @SecRubio emphasized U.S. ties with Central Asia: “Together, we can secure for our countries the resources, the investment opportunities, and the trade partnerships we need to remain, each of us, sovereign states and to grow our collective prosperity.”

DFC Chief Policy Officer Caroline Vik is in Uzbekistan alongside @SecRubio for the C5+1 Ministerial. America’s Deal Team is advancing meaningful investments across Central Asia – delivering tangible results for our countries and our people.

Thank you to Indonesian Ambassador Soesilo and to @ASEAN for hosting me this week. @DFCgov is committed to a more secure and prosperous Southeast Asia. We look forward to working with ASEAN businesses and governments to turn opportunities into investments that deliver lasting benefits for all our countries.

NEWS: @DFC_CEO met with eleven @ASEAN Ambassadors to the United States to discuss how DFC is advancing shared prosperity and economic opportunity across the Indo-Pacific’s rapidly-growing markets. dfc.gov/media/press-releases…

Enjoyed meeting with @MincomercioCo Minister Mauricio Gómez and @ColombiaEmbUSA’s Amb. María Consuelo Araújo! The start of President @ABDELAESPRIELLA’s Administration presents enormous opportunity for partnership between the United States and Colombia. America has strong allies in our Hemisphere, and we look forward to working together to advance our shared economic interests!

Under President @realDonaldTrump, America’s global leadership is being harnessed to create jobs and economic opportunity at home.

“America has the best technology in the world and is winning the race for superintelligence.” - @DFC_CEO at @Heritage. By combatting China’s Digital Silk Road with trusted telecom infrastructure, DFC is working to ensure that American technology continues to lead the world.

This week, @DFC_CEO joined @Heritage President @KevinRobertsTX to discuss DFC’s mandate to advance U.S. strategic interests by mobilizing private capital. Learn more: dfc.gov/media/press-releases…