{"id":258657,"date":"2014-10-15T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T07:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=258657"},"modified":"2014-10-15T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T07:28:28","slug":"258657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/10\/15\/258657.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOur Task is for Armenia to Look Towards the West,\u201d US Ambassador About Armenia\u2019s EEU Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">US Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern hopes that after Armenia joined the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) it will display the political will to continue its cooperation with the west. The ambassador spoke to the daily Zhamanak about the issue.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">&ldquo;The United States believes that every country has to independently manage its future when joining any international organization or union. We think that Armenia made progress in its accession negotiations with Moscow. I don&rsquo;t know what conditions the negotiations were conducted around. Our task is for Armenia to continue looking toward the west. We offer Armenia economic, political, diplomatic, as well as security cooperation. I believe that this is very important for Armenia to welcome cooperation with the West.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">When asked if Armenia chose the right path, the ambassador replied, &ldquo;Every country makes decisions for themselves, it&rsquo;s not me that has to judge Armenia&rsquo;s decision.&rdquo;<\/span><\/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>US Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern hopes that after Armenia joined the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) it will display the political will to continue its cooperation with the west&#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":184046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,18365,11379,57713,50053,58002,55215,26767,706,58003],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258657"}],"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=258657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}