{"id":239514,"date":"2013-09-19T13:02:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T09:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=239514"},"modified":"2013-09-19T13:04:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T09:04:15","slug":"armenia-to-apply-for-second-round-of-millennium-challenge-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/09\/19\/armenia-to-apply-for-second-round-of-millennium-challenge-funding.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia to Apply for Second Round of Millennium Challenge Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Armenian government last December applied for a second round of funding from the US government&#39;s Millennium Challenge Corporation, but was refused, reports Haykakan Zhamanak.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Government representatives, however, carefully conceled this news. The government is preparing to apply again in the near future,&quot; the local daily reports.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">To what extent is Armenia prepared to re-apply for the program? the newspaper asked RA prime minister spokesperson Harutyun Berberyan.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n\t&quot;When a window opens, Armenia always applies and expresses interest in such programs, and we hope that in the near future it will meet the [necessary] criteria and there will be an answer,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, US Ambassador to Armenia John A. Heffern in an interview with RFE\/RL&#39;s Armenian service recently noted that Armenia has not met the critera in the &quot;critical area&quot; of anti-corruption, which it needs to satisfy in order to apply for a second round of funding.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;\">For more information, read today&#39;s issue of Haykakan Zhamanak (only in Armenian)<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/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;When a window opens, Armenia always applies and expresses interest in such programs, and we hope that in the near future it will meet the [necessary] criteria and there will be&#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":91559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[29634,26767,18162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239514"}],"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=239514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}