{"id":45683,"date":"2010-09-16T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/16\/meghri-hydroelectric-plant-to-be-built-in-5-years\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T04:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T04:37:00","slug":"meghri-hydroelectric-plant-to-be-built-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/16\/meghri-hydroelectric-plant-to-be-built-in-5-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Meghri Hydroelectric Plant to be Built in 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The Government of Armenia today decided to approve the proposal to sign an agreement between the RA government and Iran&#8217;s Farad-Sepasad on permitting the construction of a hydrorelectric plant in Meghri based on the basis of construction, management, operations and transfer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The RA Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, authorized to act in the RA government&#8217;s name, signed the contract, as well as ensuring the protection of foreign investment into the project. Construction is planned to be completed within 5 years, after which hydroelectricity from Meghri will be sent to Iran for 15 years. After 15 years of supply to Iran, the hydropower will be transferred to Armenia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">According to Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, this decision is the start of a huge, important investment program.\u00a0<\/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 Government of Armenia&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[15721,10297,14810,11161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45683"}],"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=45683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}