{"id":253912,"date":"2014-05-29T16:26:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T12:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=253912"},"modified":"2014-05-29T17:08:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:08:23","slug":"on-armenias-entry-into-eurasian-union-what-does-karabakh-have-to-do-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/29\/on-armenias-entry-into-eurasian-union-what-does-karabakh-have-to-do-with-it.html","title":{"rendered":"On Armenia&#8217;s Entry into Eurasian Union: &#8220;What Does Karabakh Have to Do With It?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">In the Armenian National Assembly today, RA Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Manasaryan didn&#39;t answer the question of whether the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh will be in the Eurasian Economic Union together with the Republic of Armenia. &nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe said it wasn&#39;t determined that Armenia would sign the contract in Astana today, so we shouldn&#39;t think that something went wrong. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;The issues weren&#39;t about conceptual issues, but with the road map. They referred to purely technical issues,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tProsperous Armenia Party MP Vahan Babayan three times asked the official whether Karabakh would also be part of the Eurasian Union or not.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe deputy foreign minister first said, &quot;What does Karabakh have to do with it?&quot; then avoided answering the question, repeating that the fundamental issues were resolved, and all that remains is resolving the technical issues.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Do you consider the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh technical?&quot; asked Babayan.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;No, it&#39;s a matter of principle, and the negotiations on such issues were concluded,&quot; he said, adding that Armenia is entering the Eurasian Economic Union and Karabakh doesn&#39;t have anything to do with it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote, Kazakh Presdient Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana today shared a letter from Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev to the Eurasian Economic Union, in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/29\/aliyev-appeals-to-eurasian-economic-union-on-armenias-accession.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>he says<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that Armenia may join the Union with the UN-recognized state borders with which it joined the World Trade Organization.&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>RA Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Manasaryan didn&#8217;t say whether the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh will be in the Eurasian Economic Union&#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":253294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55215,40104,55792,55796],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253912"}],"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=253912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}