{"id":128221,"date":"2011-09-19T17:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=128221"},"modified":"2011-09-19T17:48:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:48:03","slug":"armenian-mp-urges-pace-colleagues-to-refrain-from-bashing-yulia-tymoshenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/19\/armenian-mp-urges-pace-colleagues-to-refrain-from-bashing-yulia-tymoshenko.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian MP Urges PACE Colleagues to Refrain from Bashing Yulia Tymoshenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the last PACE Political Affairs Committee meeting, Prosperous Armenia MP, member of Armenia&#8217;s delegation to PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.coe.int\/ASP\/AssemblyList\/AL_MemberDetails.asp?MemberID=6353\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Naira Zohrabyan<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> urged her colleagues to refrain from making extremist statements about former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko (pictured).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Epress.am, Zohrabyan said there were several &#8220;extremist&#8221; assessments made at the last committee meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some were saying that Tymoshenko is a political oppressor, while others insisted that she is corrupt and has to provide answers. I made a speech and urged everyone to refrain from extremist statements since there is still a judicial process and our issue should be to follow [the case] so that Tymoshenko&#8217;s trial is as open as possible,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian Member of Parliament also stated that last week, during the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronest.europarl.europa.eu\/euronest\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> ordinary session, she met with a MP from Ukraine&#8217;s Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc who expressed her position.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recall, a few MPs from Ukraine&#8217;s Verkhovna Rada (&#8220;Supreme Council&#8221;) appealed to Zohrabyan in writing to come out in major international platforms in defense of Tymoshenko, who was arrested last month.<\/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>Prosperous Armenia MP, member of Armenia&#8217;s delegation to PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) Naira Zohrabyan&#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":52155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32199,24852,12089,30648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128221"}],"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=128221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}