{"id":123209,"date":"2011-09-02T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T07:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=123209"},"modified":"2011-09-02T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T07:25:18","slug":"armenian-ambassador-to-russia-refused-karabakh-foreign-ministrys-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/02\/armenian-ambassador-to-russia-refused-karabakh-foreign-ministrys-offer.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Ambassador to Russia Refused Karabakh Foreign Ministry&#8217;s Offer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No replacement has yet been appointed for Georgy Petrosyan, who was released from his position as foreign affairs minister of the de factor Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on Jul. 17.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been nearly two months that one of the deputy foreign ministers \u2014 Vasiliy Atajanyan \u2014 has been fulfilling the duties of acting foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p>Local daily Haykakan Zhamanak (&#8220;Armenian Times&#8221;) reports that the Armenian president&#8217;s special envoy, former NKR president Arkadi Ghukasyan was initially named among possible candidates for the NKR MFA position. There was also talk of appointing current NKR president Bako Sahakyan&#8217;s press spokesperson David Babayan, as well as Vasiliy Atajanyan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the paper, former chair of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) National Assembly and current Armenian Ambassador to Russia Oleg Yesayan (pictured) was invited to Stepanakert to fulfill the foreign minister position; however, he declined the offer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Regnum news agency<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No replacement has yet been appointed for Georgy Petrosyan, who was released from his position as foreign affairs minister of&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,10665,13901,29819],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}