US OFFICIAL TO MEET GEORGIAN PREZ, PM
Zee News
October 21, 2008
India
Tbilisi, Oct 20: US Assistant Secretary of State for European and
Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried will meet on Monday Georgian President
Mikheil Saakashvili and Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli
in Tbilisi.
The ministers will discuss issues of the development of co-operation,
providing assistance to Georgia and regional problems.
Officials at the US Embassy to Georgia said that Fried will also hold
meetings with the leaders of a number of the country’s opposition
organisations.
On Sunday, Fried visited the city of Gori where he familiarised with
the work of the local office of European Union’s observers that are
monitoring the situation in the territories adjoining the Tskhinval
region." Fried visited several settlements of the Gori district where
Russian troops were deployed from the middle of August to October 09.
The US Assistant Secretary of State arrived in Tbilisi from Yerevan
on October 18. He said in the Armenian capital that the goal of his
visit is to reaffirm the importance of independence, sovereignty, to
support the freedom of democratic choice of the paths of development
of these countries.