AZG Armenian Daily #186, 15/10/2005

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ASSISTANT OF US SECRETARY OF STATE TO ARRIVE IN YEREVAN

Daniel Freed, assistant US secretary of state, will arrive in Yerevan on
October 18, Madiamax informs referring to its sources at the US embassy.
Freed will meet Armenian President Robert Kocharian during his visit. Freed
used to be director for European and Eurasian Affairs at the National
Security Council before appointment as assistant state secretary.

Daniel Freed is the first high-ranking US official of that caliber who will
visit Armenia since George Bush’s election in 2004. In March of 2004 US
deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage visited Armenia. In August of
2001 Elizabeth Jones, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian
affairs, arrived in Yerevan and deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott
from Clinton’s administration was in Armenia in 1999.

Only once a US secretary of state landed in Armenia. It was James Baker in
1992.