At the invitation of Armenia, Switzerland’s Federal President Micheline Calmy-Rey will arrive in Yerevan on the evening of March 31 for the start of her official two day visit. She will hold talks with the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and other high-ranking Armenian officials. These will include Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, Parliament Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan and His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians. In Yerevan, the Federal President will open the newly established Swiss embassy. A visit to the second largest city of Gyumri in the north-west of the country is also planned. This area was hit particularly hard by an earthquake in 1988. The Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (SDC) runs an education project there focused on the issue of catastrophe prevention.