{"id":166223,"date":"2012-03-02T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T11:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=166223"},"modified":"2012-03-02T15:45:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T11:45:44","slug":"armenians-in-russia-ask-to-eliminate-visa-regime-with-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/02\/armenians-in-russia-ask-to-eliminate-visa-regime-with-georgia.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenians in Russia Ask to Eliminate Visa Regime with Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An association in Russia of Armenian expats from the Georgian region of Javakheti has called on the Russian authorities to eliminate visa requirements for citizens of Georgia, following a <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/29\/georgia-to-abolish-visa-requirement-for-citizens-of-russia.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">decision<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to unilaterally abolish the visa regime for Russian citizens entering Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up until 2000, there was a visa-free regime between Georgia and Russia. Then, due to certain prevailing objective reasons, visa requirements were introduced for citizens of the two neighboring countries. A few days ago, Georgian authorities unilaterally eliminated visa requirements for Russian citizens. This news delighted and gave hope to many ordinary and peaceful residents. Our non-governmental organization also joins and welcomes this decision,&#8221; reads the statement of Javakheti Armenians in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In their opinion, a similar move by Russian authorities &#8220;would reduce the Georgian authorities&#8217; level of aggressive rhetoric and actions toward Russia, stimulating a mutual, humanitarian direction and healthy economic prospects. Most importantly, it would be a good step toward restoring confidence and warm fraternal relations between the Russian and Georgian peoples.&#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>An association in Russia of Armenian expats from the Georgian region of Javakheti has called on the Russian authorities to eliminate visa requirements for&#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":166189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10256,18479,13448,16793,11952,10254,18478,19311,20639,21475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166223"}],"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=166223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}