{"id":257991,"date":"2014-09-29T14:46:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T10:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=257991"},"modified":"2014-09-29T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T10:49:38","slug":"armenian-parliament-rejects-bill-supporting-border-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/09\/29\/armenian-parliament-rejects-bill-supporting-border-villages.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Parliament Rejects Bill Supporting Border Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Today, the National Assembly rejected a bill presented by Armenian National Congress (HAK) MP Nikol Pashinyan, called &ldquo;About the Republic of Armenia&rsquo;s Border Communities&rdquo;;&nbsp;54 &#39;abstained&#39;, 40 &#39;yes&#39;, and 3 &#39;no&#39; during the vote. The bill called for certain privileges for border village residents.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armenian Republican Party (HHK) and a part of Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) voted to abstain, which overturned the bill. BHK MP Stepan Margaryan said that he wished the government would write a larger bill and submit it, because Pashinyan&rsquo;s presented bill only partially solved issues. &nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan, who recently returned from Tavush, said that the issue is urgent and that they should not wait until the government discussed the issue.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The bill was voted &lsquo;yes&rsquo; by Armenian National Congress (HAK), Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), Heritage Party, Rule of Law Party (OEK) and a portion of Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), which was not sufficient enough to pass the law.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Recall, that Pashinyan&rsquo;s bill specifically suggests that;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t1. A 50% decreased in electricity, natural gas, drinking and irrigation water fees.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t2. Border village residents will be freed from land tax and real estate tax\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t3. Residents left homeless after Azerbaijani armed attacks will be provided a home with equivalent costs in the same community within 1 month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t4.&nbsp;Citizens injured from Azerbaijani armed attacks will be provided medical treatment paid by the Armenian State Budget.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t5. The State budget will provide border village communities help for daily health needs and support young families.<\/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 bill was voted \u2018yes\u2019 by Armenian National Congress (HAK), Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), Heritage Party, Rule of Law Party (OEK) and a portion of Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), which was not sufficient enough to pass the law&#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":257980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15418,57740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257991"}],"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=257991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}