{"id":254069,"date":"2014-06-02T14:28:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=254069"},"modified":"2014-06-02T14:29:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:29:46","slug":"mp-violated-rules-of-ethics-decides-parliamentary-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/02\/mp-violated-rules-of-ethics-decides-parliamentary-commission.html","title":{"rendered":"MP Violated Rules of Ethics, Decides Parliamentary Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Ruling Republican Party of Armenia MP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.am\/deputies.php?sel=details&amp;ID=1077&amp;lang=eng\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Arakel Movsisyan<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (pictured) violated the rules of ethics. Such was the decision made by the National Assembly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.am\/committees.php?do=members&amp;ID=111175\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Committee on Ethics<\/strong><\/span><\/a> at a closed-door meeting today upon reviewing the complaint submitted by four journalists.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs committee chair Hovhannes Sahakyan informed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastinfo.am\/hy\/node\/42717\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Pastinfo.am<\/strong><\/span><\/a> [AM] after the meeting, the committee&#39;s decision, according to the parliament&#39;s rules of procedure, will be announced during the upcoming sitting of the parliament and will be published on the official website. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote, journalists appealed to the ethics committee regarding Movsisyan&#39;s behavior at a December 23, 2013 parliamentary meeting in which MPs were to vote to ratify the Armenia-Russia gas agreements. Moments before the meeting began, four journalists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2013\/12\/24\/armenian-journalists-protest-russian-gas-deal-in-parliament.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>held a silent protest<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, holding signs addressed to MPs of the ruling parliamentary majority to vote against the bill. During the silent protest, Movsisyan in a loud voice said, &quot;Get these monkeys out of here.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/12\/01\/mp-who-insulted-armen-martirosyan-in-parliament-explains-why-he-called-him-an-ass.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>not the first time<\/strong><\/span><\/a> Movsisyan has spoken out inappropriately in parliament.<\/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>Ruling Republican Party of Armenia MP Arakel Movsisyan (pictured) violated the rules of ethics. Such was the decision made by the National Assembly&#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":254048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35265,55875,36534,52112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254069"}],"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=254069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}