{"id":167740,"date":"2012-03-12T17:16:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=167740"},"modified":"2012-03-12T17:16:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:16:15","slug":"no-problems-with-armenian-national-congress-over-putin-sargsyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/12\/no-problems-with-armenian-national-congress-over-putin-sargsyan.html","title":{"rendered":"No Problems with Armenian National Congress over Putin: Sargsyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the opposition bloc the Armenian National Congress (HAK) Levon Ter-Petrossian has never allowed himself to make remarks on any political party, said Lyudmila Sargsyan, leader of the Social Democrat Hunchukian Party, a HAK member party, earlier today, refuting reports that the HAK leader was berated for urging Armenians in Russia to back president-elect Vladimir Putin (pictured) and subsequently, issuing congratulations on winning the election.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sargsyan, the numerous parties that comprise the Armenian National Congress have different positions on different issues, but are free to share their opinions publicly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would not urge our compatriots living in Russia to vote for Vladimir Putin if it could cause problems within HAK,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you noticed, other parties in HAK expressed different view on the elections in Russia. There are pro-Western and pro-Russian forces within the [Armenian National] Congress. We are obliged to preserve the strategic, good-neighborly relations we&#8217;ve had with Russia,&#8221; she added.<\/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>According to Social Democrat Hunchukian Party leader Lyudmila Sargsyan, the numerous parties that comprise the Armenian National Congress have different positions on&#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":160394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167740"}],"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=167740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}