{"id":49065,"date":"2010-11-15T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/11\/15\/ter-petrossian-raised-nikol-pashinyan-issue-with-us-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2010-11-15T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T10:11:00","slug":"ter-petrossian-raised-nikol-pashinyan-issue-with-us-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/11\/15\/ter-petrossian-raised-nikol-pashinyan-issue-with-us-ambassador.html","title":{"rendered":"Ter-Petrossian Raised Nikol Pashinyan Issue with US Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Leader of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (HAK), first president of the Republic of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrossian today met with US Ambassador to Armenia Marie L. Yovanovitch, US State Department Coordinator for US Assistance to Europe and Eurasia Daniel N. Rosenblum,&nbsp; Deputy Director of the US State Department Office on Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts John Espinoza, and US Embassy Political\/Economic Officer Charles Lobdell.&nbsp;<\/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'\">Discussed during the meeting were issues related to Armenia&#8217;s domestic political and socioeconomic situation, corruption, and the electoral system, according to a press release issued by the Armenian National Congress. Ter-Petrossian also raised the issue of political prisoners and their immediate release, as well as ceasing attacks, such as was recently reported,&nbsp; on imprisoned journalist and opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan, currently in Armenia&#8217;s Kosh penitentiary.&nbsp;<\/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'\">Also participating in the meeting were HAK head office representatives Levon Zurabyan, Davit Shahnazaryan and Avetis Avagyan.<\/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>Leader of the opposition bloc&#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":[10340,17391,17796,13272,18495,16236,15601,11348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49065"}],"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=49065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}