{"id":251410,"date":"2014-03-31T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T06:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=251410"},"modified":"2014-03-31T10:52:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T06:52:49","slug":"armenian-diaspora-in-ukraine-supports-ukraines-territorial-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/31\/armenian-diaspora-in-ukraine-supports-ukraines-territorial-integrity.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Diaspora in Ukraine Supports Ukraine&#8217;s Territorial Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Union of Armenians in Ukraine (UAU), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasianet.org\/node\/68084\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>leading civic organization representing the Armenian diaspora in the country<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, essentially disagreed with official Yerevan&#39;s position on recent events when it issued a statement on March 28, calling for the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine&#39;s existing borders.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;The Union of Armenians in Ukraine is a non-governmental organization that operates on the basis of Ukrainian legislation. In this regard, we are not authorized to comment on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/20\/armenia-russia-presidents-discuss-ukraine.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>conversation between the presidents of Armenia and Russia<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Our position toward the political situation in the country and the actions carried out in the territory of Ukraine, in particular, Crimea, remains unchanged,&quot; reads the statement, in part.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe UAU adds that Ukraine&#39;s Armenians are deeply concerned about the deteriorating situation in the country and call for peaceful solutions to existing problems &mdash; on the basis of &quot;strict compliance&quot; with state laws and international legal instruments.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;We along with the Ukrainian people mourn the death of the victims of the events in the country, among which are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/03\/monument-honoring-slain-activist-sergei-nigoyan-erected-in-kiev.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>two representatives of the Armenian people<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. We continue to support the Ukrainian people, without separating ourselves from ethnic Ukrainians and all other peoples living in Ukraine,&quot; concludes the statement.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEarlier, Ukraine&#39;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs had said that the country takes into consideration the fact that millions of Armenians and Belarusians don&#39;t support the position of the leaders of their countries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, on March 27, Armenia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/28\/armenias-foreign-affairs-ministry-lied-armenia-voted-against-un-resolution-on-ukraine.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>voted against<\/strong><\/span><\/a> the UN resolution on recognizing Ukraine&#39;s territorial integrity, which doesn&#39;t accept the results of the referendum in Crimea.&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 Union of Armenians in Ukraine (UAU), the leading civic organization representing the Armenian diaspora in the country, essentially disagreed with&#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":251395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26675,27485,17400,12920,54438],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251410"}],"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=251410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}