{"id":138033,"date":"2011-10-31T13:13:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T09:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=138033"},"modified":"2011-10-31T13:14:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T09:14:55","slug":"armenia-prime-minister-on-yerevan-mayor-karen-karapetyans-sudden-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/31\/armenia-prime-minister-on-yerevan-mayor-karen-karapetyans-sudden-resignation.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Prime Minister on Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan&#8217;s Sudden Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan believes that it&#8217;s generally not right for a prime minister to comment on news. He said this himself during the briefing following the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) first economic conference on Sunday, responding to a journalist&#8217;s comment that there are reports that recently resigned Yerevan mayor Karen Karapetyan (pictured) betrayed his team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am guided by those explanations which Karen Karapetyan stated publicly. I had a meeting with him, whereby he presented in detail his arguments for resignation which are completely consistent with his public statement. I see no other subtext, and I don&#8217;t agree with other commentary,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, Karen Karapetyan <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/28\/yerevan-mayor-karen-karapetyan-confirms-resignation.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">announced his resignation<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> late last week, citing personal reasons and the move to a new job.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Karapetyan, who served less than a year in office, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/28\/yerevan-mayor-karen-karapetyan-armenia-president-respected-my-decision-to-resign.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">denied rumors<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> that he is leaving his post due to disagreements with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan or any of the presidential staff. He called such rumors &#8220;absurd&#8221;.<\/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>Following the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) first economic conference on Sunday, responding to a journalist&#8217;s comment that there are&#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":118879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,12107,11161,10355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138033"}],"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=138033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}