U.S. DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES STEINBERG ARRIVING IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
03.02.2010 11:10 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg
will travel to the Caucasus on February 4 and 5. He will meet in
Yerevan, Armenia with President Serzh Sargsyan and Foreign Minister
Edward Nalbandian to discuss bilateral and regional issues. He will
proceed to Tbilisi, Georgia where he will meet with President Mikheil
Saakashvili and representatives of Georgia’s opposition.

Deputy Secretary Steinberg will travel to Munich, Germany on February
5 to attend the Munich Security Conference. In Munich, he will meet
with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish Foreign Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu as well as other leaders attending the conference,
the U.S. Department of State said.

The annual Munich conference dates back to 1962, at the height of
the Cold War, when it was founded by German publisher Ewald von
Kleist as the Wehrkundetagung (Security Conference). It was later
renamed the international Conference on Security Policy. Each year,
some 250 participants from 40 countries discuss in depth their views
on the development of transatlantic relations as well as European
and global security.