{"id":273084,"date":"2016-06-08T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T11:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=273084"},"modified":"2016-06-08T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T11:22:58","slug":"lawmaker-proposes-to-double-financial-support-for-armenias-defense-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/06\/08\/lawmaker-proposes-to-double-financial-support-for-armenias-defense-industry.html","title":{"rendered":"Lawmaker Proposes to Double Financial Support for Armenia&#8217;s Defense Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tHeghine Bisharyan, the leader of Rule of Law party faction, proposed during parliamentary discussions over the implementation of Armenia&#39;s 2015 state budget on Wednesday to double financial support for the country&#39;s defense sector.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe parliamentarian announced that &ldquo;April events&rdquo; have shown that Armenia&#39;s defense industry needed more budget allocations. In 2015, she added, these funds stood at AMD 207 billion (about US$432 million), and in 2016 &ndash; at AMD 201 billion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;As a result of private discussions we&#39;ve come to the conclusion that this money was not enough and we suggest that government representatives come here and listen to our proposals,&rdquo; Bisharyan said, stressing that additional resources would allow the defense ministry &ldquo;to provide decent conditions for our soldiers.&rdquo; &nbsp;<\/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 parliamentarian announced that \u201cApril events\u201d have shown that Armenia&#8217;s defense industry needed more budget allocations. In 2015, she added, these funds stood at AMD 207 billion (about US$432 million), and in 2016&#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":273078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15583,11593,15891,12904],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273084"}],"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=273084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}