{"id":270767,"date":"2016-01-29T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T09:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=270767"},"modified":"2016-01-29T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T09:55:46","slug":"armenian-football-team-cancels-match-in-sukhumi-foreign-ministry-says-abkhazia-not-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/01\/29\/armenian-football-team-cancels-match-in-sukhumi-foreign-ministry-says-abkhazia-not-independent.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Football Team Cancels Match in Sukhumi; Foreign Ministry Says Abkhazia &#8216;Not Independent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Yerevan-based FC Ararat cancelled the friendly match against Russian Volga, which was planned to be held in Abkhazia capital Sukhumi on January 27, due to Armenia&#39;s Foreign Ministry&rsquo;s admonishment\u2024&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;We don&#39;t recognize Abkhazia as an independent state, so we were against the friendly match [between Ararat and Volga] being held in Sukhumi,&rdquo; Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tigran Balayan told Epress.am Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEcho of the Caucasus earlier reported that the Foreign Ministry of breakaway Abkhazia has described Armenia&#39;s move as &ldquo;unfriendly towards the Republic of Abkhazia.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Our two nations have age-old historical ties; there is a large Armenian community living in Abkhazia, and it&#39;s an integral part of the multinational people of the country,&rdquo; Abkhazian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Irakli Tuzhba stated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWith regard to Tuzhba&#39;s statement, Balayan told Epress.am that Armenia&#39;s Foreign Ministry has no official relations with Abkhazia. &ldquo;Our decisions and actions are guided only by our national and state interests,&rdquo; the official said.<\/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>\u201cWe don&#8217;t recognize Abkhazia as an independent state, so we were against the friendly match [between Ararat and Volga] being held in Sukhumi,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tigran Balayan told Epress.am Friday&#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":250103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10255,15029,10256,63775,16625,63774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270767"}],"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=270767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}