{"id":251147,"date":"2014-03-25T13:53:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T09:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=251147"},"modified":"2014-03-25T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T10:29:29","slug":"environmental-activists-disrupt-international-mining-conference-in-yerevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/25\/environmental-activists-disrupt-international-mining-conference-in-yerevan.html","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Activists Disrupt International Mining Conference in Yerevan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Local environmental activists today interrupted an international conference organized by the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the World Bank titled &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/responsiblemining.am\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Responsible Mining in Armenia: Opportunities and Challenges<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&rdquo; held in Yerevan&#39;s Armenia Marriott Hotel March 25&ndash;26.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs reported by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lragir.am\/index\/arm\/0\/country\/view\/96788\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\">Lragir<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>[AM], the activists entered the conference room, holding signs with such inscriptions as&nbsp;&quot;The World Bank participates in pillaging Armenia&quot;, &quot;Hands off Armenia&quot;&nbsp;and &quot;We know who the owners of the mines are&quot;. The activists also brought with them water from local water basins and suggested conference participants, including <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.am\/en\/structure\/5\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Minister of Nature Protection Aram Harutyunyan<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, drink it.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEarlier, the activists had issued an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lragir.am\/index\/eng\/0\/country\/view\/32159\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>open letter<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to conference participants.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7a9xKTArh0s?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><strong>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lragir.am\/index\/arm\/0\/country\/view\/96788\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\">Lragir<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\tVideo: <a href=\"http:\/\/armlur.am\/136880\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\">Zhoghovurd<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/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>Local environmental activists today interrupted an international conference organized by the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the World Bank&#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":251126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19894,15441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251147"}],"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=251147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}