{"id":284784,"date":"2018-04-18T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=284784"},"modified":"2018-04-18T23:21:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:21:54","slug":"newly-appointed-prime-minister-convinced-economic-growth-in-armenia-hampered-by-street-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/04\/18\/newly-appointed-prime-minister-convinced-economic-growth-in-armenia-hampered-by-street-rallies.html","title":{"rendered":"Newly-Appointed Prime Minister Convinced Economic Growth in Armenia Hampered by Street Rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/serzhsargsyan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-284780\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/serzhsargsyan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Armenia\u2019s former president Serzh Sargsyan, who was on April 17 elected by the parliament as the country\u2019s new Prime Minister, is convinced that the flow of investors and tourists to Armenia is hampered by the fact that \u201cpeople hold demonstrations almost every year.\u201d These demonstrations, according to Sargsyan, turn Armenia into an uneasy place, and investors thereby do not want to invest money in the country, which, in turn, hinders economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday interview with Shant TV, the newly-appointed PM said: \u201cHow many quiet years did we have? In the past ten years, I mean\u2026 Be it external or internal instability\u2026 The 2017th perhaps was the only year when there were no rallies in the streets, and tourists could safely come to Yerevan, investors could make their investments\u2026 \u00a0That was the only year, and in that year we had an economic growth of 7.5%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GIUJ1OEvHmY?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/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>Armenia\u2019s former president Serzh Sargsyan, who was on April 17 elected by the parliament as the country\u2019s new Prime Minister, is convinced that the flow of investors and tourists to Armenia is hampered by the fact that \u201cpeople hold demonstrations almost every year.\u201d These demonstrations, according to Sargsyan, turn Armenia into an uneasy place, and &hellip;<!-- 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":284779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,66047],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284784"}],"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=284784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}