{"id":249346,"date":"2014-02-21T21:11:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T17:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=249346"},"modified":"2014-02-21T21:41:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T17:41:01","slug":"us-supports-armenian-governments-controversial-new-pension-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/02\/21\/us-supports-armenian-governments-controversial-new-pension-reform.html","title":{"rendered":"US Supports Armenian Government&#8217;s Controversial New Pension Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The United States <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbHeffern\/status\/436782378774974464\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>supports the policy<\/strong><\/span><\/a> adopted by Armenia&#39;s authorities in the pension system, said US Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern at the third annual pension conference&nbsp;on the new pension system organized by the Pension System Awareness Center Foundation.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe US ambassador <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbHeffern\/status\/436783516433780736\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>advised the Armenian government<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to take initiatives to <a href=\"http:\/\/armenia.usembassy.gov\/news022114-1.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>provide detailed and clear explanations <\/strong><\/span><\/a>about the reform to all&nbsp;citizens of the country.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe also stated that the mandatory pension system in the US is not privately owned. &quot;There are debates in the US that some private companies and political parties would also like to see a private pension system,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe ambassador touched upon the public&#39;s distrust of the two funds that will be managing citizens&#39; contributions. &quot;Under this reform, the pension funds will be managed privately by two highly respected international funds managers &mdash; one French and the other German\/Austrian with long track records of success,&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.state.gov\/libraries\/armenia\/231771\/PDFs\/speech022114.pdf\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>he said<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&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>The United States supports the policy adopted by Armenia&#8217;s authorities in the pension system, said US Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern&#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":184046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26767,11703,53142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249346"}],"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=249346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}