{"id":253860,"date":"2014-05-27T19:20:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=253860"},"modified":"2014-05-27T19:20:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T15:20:18","slug":"opposition-mp-complains-of-yerevan-mayors-absence-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/27\/opposition-mp-complains-of-yerevan-mayors-absence-in-parliament.html","title":{"rendered":"Opposition MP Complains of Yerevan Mayor&#8217;s Absence in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">During the 2013 budget report presented in parliament today, MP Nikol Pashinyan (pictured) once again complained of Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan&#39;s absence at the National Assembly. Note, instead of Margaryan, First Deputy Yerevan Mayor Kamo Areyan presented the report in parliament.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;In Armenia, officials are divided into ranks. This is the umpteenth time that the mayor has not come to this meeting. If Taron Margaryan thinks this is an unimportant event, let us know too, [so] that we won&#39;t come &mdash; we&#39;re not any less busy,&quot; said the opposition MP.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPashinyan asked Areyan about the fate of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/content\/article\/25371147.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>controversial monument<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to Soviet leader Anastas Mikoyan.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;There are conflicting opinions among history experts about Mikoyan&#39;s character, but, nevertheless, the Yerevan Council of Elders gave its consent. This is the basic truth &mdash; without further comment,&quot; said Areyan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe first deputy mayor said the decision to erect the statue has already been approved, though the sketches are not yet ready. Furthermore, it is yet unknown who will finance the project.&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>&#8220;This is the umpteenth time that the mayor has not come to this meeting. If Taron Margaryan thinks this is an unimportant event, let us know too&#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":241950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[55748,15418,19753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253860"}],"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=253860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}