{"id":243599,"date":"2013-11-14T20:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=243599"},"modified":"2013-11-14T20:01:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:01:54","slug":"ukraine-saved-armenias-face-armenian-mp-on-customs-union-and-2014-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/11\/14\/ukraine-saved-armenias-face-armenian-mp-on-customs-union-and-2014-budget.html","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine &#8216;Saved&#8217; Armenia&#8217;s Face: Armenian MP on Customs Union and 2014 Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">During discussion of the 2014 state budget in Armenia&#39;s National Assembly today, MP Alexander Arzoumanian opined that it is a &quot;hypothetical budget&quot; because it&#39;s not yet known whether the international loans included there will be provided to Armenia or not. The MP&#39;s concern was associated with Armenia&#39;s decision to join the Russian-led Customs Union and the wish to &quot;whip up in a frenzy&quot; the harmonization of Armenian legislation with the Customs Union.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;We know that our economy is more liberal and our customs duties are lower. Now we buy what we what; soon, we&#39;ll be forced to buy what they put before us. By the way, I want to congratulate all of us, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2013\/11\/14\/putin-urged-armenian-president-to-customs-union-with-kgb-dossier-ukrainian-mp.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><strong>Ukraine has postponed signing the [EU] Association Agreement<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &mdash; it makes us save face a little bit. Calculated in your budget are anticipated European investments, but we can sure only of the funding of current programs,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn response, Chair of the Standing Parliamentary Committee on Financial -Credit and Budgetary Affairs Gagik Minasyan said that the 2014 draft budget is, after all, only a draft. &quot;Regarding the loans, I can&#39;t agree. I strongly believe that our European partners place importance not on form but on content; therefore, they won&#39;t stop funding [us] after our decision.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to him, the constant refrain of either Customs Union or European integration (that is, the implication that they are irreconcilable) doesn&#39;t help the task at hand.<\/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>During discussion of the 2014 state budget in Armenia&#8217;s National Assembly today, MP Alexander Arzoumanian opined that it is a &#8220;hypothetical budget&#8221;&#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":242079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51582,50053,51583,15153,12904,12920],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243599"}],"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=243599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}