{"id":132845,"date":"2011-10-05T10:57:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T05:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=132845"},"modified":"2011-10-05T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T05:59:06","slug":"opposition-harshly-criticizes-german-ambassador-to-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/05\/opposition-harshly-criticizes-german-ambassador-to-armenia.html","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Harshly Criticizes German Ambassador to Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian National Congress (HAK) continued responding to questions by members of the public at Liberty Square Tuesday evening. HAK representative David Shahnazaryan shared with those gathered a document that was approved by the opposition bloc&#8217;s foreign relations committee, one aspect of which referred to German Ambassador to Armenia Hans-Jochen Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>HAK refrained from making comments after the first incident, Shahnazaryan said, referring to Ambassador Schmidt&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/27\/ter-petrossian-must-accept-what-happened-during-his-term-says-german-ambassador-to-armenia.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">statements<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> at a recent public forum, &#8220;considering it an accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No foreign ambassador has made a similar statement. He has never publicly criticized the Armenian government. We consider this bizarre behavior a flagrant interference in Armenia&#8217;s internal affairs and an open support for the Armenian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We urge the authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany to pay attention to this, and we are confident that [Ambassador Schmidt&#8217;s] <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/03\/german-ambassador-to-armenia-says-levon-ter-petrossian-criticized-him.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">attitude<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> does not correspond to the position of the German government,&#8221; he said, adding that the German ambassador has violated the ethics of diplomacy.<\/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>&#8220;No foreign ambassador has made a similar statement. He has never publicly criticized the Armenian government. We consider&#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":132748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,11911,10340,11914,21114,10355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132845"}],"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=132845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}