VARTAN OSKANIAN AND DANIEL FRIED DISCUSS STEPS DIRECTED TO CONTINUING NEGOTIATIONS WITHIN FRAMEWORK OF PRAGUE PROCESS
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 16 2006
YEREVAN, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. RA Foreign Minister
Vartan Oskanian received early on March 16, Daniel Fried, the Assistant
for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs of the U.S. Secretary
State, who is in Armenia within the framework of a regional visit, and
Steven Mann, the OSCE Minsk Group U.S. Co-Chairman, accompanying him.
Opinions were exchanged at the meeting concerning a number of regional
and bilateral issues of mutual interest.
Issues of securing the energetic safety of the region, including of
Armenia as well, concerning what the sides stated their approaches,
were discussed. It was mentioned that in this sense, settlement of
the conflicts existing in the South Caucasus will allow to completely
use possibilities of the region in future.
Then the sides discussed the state created on the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict settlement and opinions were changed concerning steps directed
to continuing negotiations within the framework of the Prague process.
A discussion was promoted on the Armenian-Turkish relations as well,
particularly touching upon the issue of opening the border and
functioning of the means of communication.
As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and
Information Department, the “Millennium Challenges” program as well
as issues concerning deepening democracy in Armenia were touched upon
at the meeting.
REFERENCE: Daniel Fried started his service in the U.S. Economic Bureau
of the State Department in 1977 where he worked till 1979. In 1980-81
he worked at the U.S, Consulate General in Leningrad. In 1982-85 he
was Political Officer in the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade. In 1997-2000
D.Fried was the U.S. Ambassador to Poland. In 2000-2001 D.Fried was
Principal Deputy Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the
New Independent States. From January 2001 Ambassador Fried was the
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European
and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council. Daniel Fried
was appointed the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State in May, 2005.