United States Special Envoy for the Closure of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility
In office May 15, 2009 – January 28, 2013
President
Barack Obama
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Cliff Sloan
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
In office May 5, 2005 – May 14, 2009
President
George W. Bush Barack Obama
Preceded by
Elizabeth Jones
Succeeded by
Philip Gordon
United States Ambassador to Poland
In office November 27, 1997 – May 6, 2000
President
Bill Clinton
Preceded by
Nicholas Rey
Succeeded by
Christopher Hill
Personal details
Born
1952 (age 71–72)
Education
Cornell University (BA) Columbia University (MA)
Daniel Fried (born 1952) is an American diplomat, who served as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs from 2005 to 2009 and United States ambassador to Poland from 1997 to 2000.[1][2] He also served as special envoy for Guantanamo closure and co-ordinator for United States embargoes.[3][4] Fried retired from the State Department in February 2017 after forty years of service.[5]
^Appointment of Ambassador Daniel Fried, state.gov, 2009-03-12
^"Daniel Fried to lead dedicated term in Guantanamo closing" Archived 2009-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, 2009-03-13
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Charlie Savage (2013-01-28). "State Dept. Closes Office Working on Shutting Guantánamo Prison". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2013-01-29. The State Department on Monday reassigned Daniel Fried, the special envoy for closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and will not replace him, according to an internal personnel announcement. Mr. Fried's office is being closed, and his former responsibilities will be "assumed" by the office of the department's legal adviser, the notice said.
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Kristin Deasy (2013-01-28). "US State Department shuts down office tasked with closing Guantanamo: Move suggests priority shift on the part of the administration". Global Post. Archived from the original on 2013-01-28. As of today, there is no longer a State Department office overseeing efforts to close the US prison at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, and the person assigned to the task, Daniel Fried, has been given something else to do, reported The New York Times, citing an official statement.
^Mohammed, Arshad (February 25, 2017). "The longest-serving US diplomat implicitly rebuked Trump in his retirement speech". Business Insider. New York. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
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wife). Samuel Fry (1816–1902; known as "Gurney"); married to Sophia Pinkerton (aunt of poet and translator Percy Edward Pinkerton). DanielFry (1821–1892;...
States Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs DanielFried (in office 2005–2009) stated in a 2007 interview: I get nervous when...
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