{"id":251325,"date":"2014-03-28T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T07:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=251325"},"modified":"2014-03-28T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T07:22:01","slug":"armenias-foreign-affairs-ministry-lied-armenia-voted-against-un-resolution-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/28\/armenias-foreign-affairs-ministry-lied-armenia-voted-against-un-resolution-on-ukraine.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Ministry Lied: Armenia Voted Against UN Resolution on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThe United Nations General Assembly yesterday adopted a measure underscoring that the mid-March referendum in Crimea that led to the peninsula&rsquo;s annexation by Russia &ldquo;has no validity&rdquo; and that the parties should &ldquo;pursue immediately a peaceful resolution of the situation,&rdquo; according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=47443#.UzUhJK2SxBo\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>news release<\/strong><\/span><\/a> issued by the United Nations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tArmenia was one of 11 countries that voted against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/214881652\/U-N-resolution-affirming-Ukraine-s-territorial-integrity\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>UN resolution affirming Ukraine&#39;s territorial integrity<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t100 countries voted in favor of the resolution at the UN&#39;s General Assembly. Those that voted against are Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. 58 countries abstained from voting.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, on March 26, Tigran Balayan, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, informed RFE\/RL&#39;s Armenian service that Armenia will abstain from the vote. Later, RFE\/RL&#39;s Armenian service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/archive\/news\/20140326\/2031\/2031.html?id=25310288\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>updated the story<\/strong><\/span><\/a> [AM], reporting that the information was conveyed to the radio station by Armenia&#39;s foreign affairs ministry.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><strong>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2014\/03\/27\/here-are-the-11-u-n-members-that-voted-against-a-resolution-on-ukraines-unity\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\">The Washington Post<\/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>Armenia was one of 11 countries that voted against the UN resolution affirming Ukraine&#8217;s territorial integrity.<!-- 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":251302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27485,15856,12920,11337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251325"}],"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=251325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}