{"id":130345,"date":"2011-09-27T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T11:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=130345"},"modified":"2011-09-27T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T11:47:43","slug":"ter-petrossian-must-accept-what-happened-during-his-term-says-german-ambassador-to-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/27\/ter-petrossian-must-accept-what-happened-during-his-term-says-german-ambassador-to-armenia.html","title":{"rendered":"Ter-Petrossian Must Accept What Happened During his Term, Says German Ambassador to Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First president of the Republic of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrossian has to personally accept what happened during his term from 1994\u20131998, when there were prisoners in the country, said German Ambassador to Armenia Hans-Jochen Schmidt during the &#8220;Assessing Independence in Armenia and the Region&#8221; public forum organized by the Civilitas Foundation on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He, nevertheless, believed that the criticisms stated during Ter-Petrossian&#8217;s speeches are justified, since &#8220;the existence of an oligopoly is harmful for the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But he has to remember that the basis for such phenomena was established during his administration,&#8221; added the ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the opposition, Schmidt also turned his attention to the issue of holding rallies in Yerevan&#8217;s Liberty Square (next to the Opera building).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my opinion, allowing rallies in Liberty Square was a very important step, though I think that from a political standpoint asking to hold rallies only in Liberty Square is naive. If people want to assemble, they can do that anywhere and in any square,&#8221; he said.<\/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>First president of the Republic of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrossian has to personally accept what happened during his term&#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":130294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11914,21114,15118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130345"}],"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=130345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}