{"id":266563,"date":"2015-07-02T14:35:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T10:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=266563"},"modified":"2015-07-02T14:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T10:38:58","slug":"usd-200-million-russian-loan-for-solely-russian-military-equipment-ra-na-convenes-extraordinary-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/07\/02\/usd-200-million-russian-loan-for-solely-russian-military-equipment-ra-na-convenes-extraordinary-session.html","title":{"rendered":"USD 200 Million Russian Loan for Solely Russian Military Equipment: RA NA Convenes Extraordinary Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">At the initiative of the RA Government, an extraordinary session of the Armenian National Assembly was held on Thursday, July 2, during which&nbsp;a bill on the agreement between the RA Government and the Government of the Russian Federation on the provision of a USD 200 million interstate export credit to Armenia was presented. According to the bill, the loan will be spent on the purchase of exclusively&nbsp;Russian military equipment.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRA Deputy Defense Minister Ara Nazaryan said latest military equipment would be obtained with these funds, part of which was presented during the [Victory Day Parade] in Moscow on May 9, 2015.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOpposition &ldquo;Armenian National Congress&rdquo; faction MP, economist Hrant Bagratyan commented that the agreement contained &ldquo;harsh conditions for Armenia.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;In case of a delay, the debt turns into a syndicated loan, and the Russian side gets the right to demand the entire loan. That&#39;s cruelty. Secondly, when the loan expires, its interest increases from 3[%] to 4,5[%]. Thirdly, there is equipment which will only be ready in a year, but interest is already being accrued. My only questions is, have you calculated our losses?&rdquo; the lawmaker said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;There is nothing harsh about this credit,&rdquo; Nazaryan answered, adding that it has been positively assessed by the RA Ministry of Finance: &ldquo;There won&#39;t be any losses. No calculations needed.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOpposition &ldquo;Heritage&rdquo; faction MP Zaruhi Postanjan, in turn, called the credit agreement humiliating for Armenia. Co-rapporteur Shirak Torosyan urged Postanjyan to &ldquo;contain yourself.&rdquo;<\/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>\u201cThere is nothing harsh about this credit,\u201d Nazaryan answered, adding that it has been positively assessed by the RA Ministry of Finance: \u201cThere won&#8217;t be any losses. No calculations needed&#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":264595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266563"}],"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=266563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}