{"id":247923,"date":"2014-01-30T18:22:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T14:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=247923"},"modified":"2014-01-30T18:22:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T14:22:01","slug":"armenias-armed-forces-can-be-used-in-state-of-emergency-amendment-bill-struck-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/01\/30\/armenias-armed-forces-can-be-used-in-state-of-emergency-amendment-bill-struck-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s Armed Forces Can be Used in State of Emergency: Amendment Bill Struck Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Armenian government today struck down a bill on making amendments to the RA Law on the Legal Regime of a State of Emergency proposed by Armenian National Congress MPs.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote, the 7 MPs of the Armenian National Congress faction had raised the issue of involved the armed forces in a state of emergency, asking that this provision of the law be annulled.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt the government meeting, RA Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan said the issues raised by the initiative were discussed during adoption of the law.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;These deputies are addressing the matter of using armed forces during a state of emergency and are offering other options. This question has been discussed repeatedly; it is derived from the Constitution, according to which armed forces, in addition to territorial security, also ensure domestic security,&quot; said the minister.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to the government&#39;s rationale, the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia can be used in case of an armed attack on Armenia, when there is imminent danger of attack or during a declared state of war or martial law, as well as in case of a declared state of emergency. When a state of emergency is declared, &quot;the state authorized Republic of Armenia defense body&#39;s human resources, technical and transport means can be used also with weapons and ammunition.&quot;<\/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>The Armenian government today struck down a bill on making amendments to the RA Law on the Legal Regime of a State of Emergency proposed by Armenian National Congress MPs.<!-- 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":247897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13815,37960],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247923"}],"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=247923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}