{"id":60981,"date":"2011-02-01T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T07:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=60981"},"modified":"2011-02-01T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T07:24:17","slug":"armenias-parliament-to-be-split-into-two-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/01\/armenias-parliament-to-be-split-into-two-houses.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s Parliament to be Split into Two Houses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia&#8217;s Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan, meeting with the Armenian-American community in California, presented Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan&#8217;s intention of splitting parliament into two houses through constitutional amendments, reports local Armenian daily Aravot (&#8220;Morning&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>According to Hakobyan, &#8220;The upper house will be the Senate, which will also include diasporan Armenians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today I saw our Californian-Armenian community&#8217;s enthusiasm for the idea of creating a senate. The first step by the president was the creation of the Ministry of Diaspora; with the creation of the ministry, serious policy in diaspora-homeland ties was developed; second, dual citizenship was introduced; third, basically, we&#8217;re taking the third step, by creating an upper house in which the Diasporan Armenian will have his voice, his words in the governing of the state [public administration], development of policy, and functioning of state power,&#8221; she said, reports Aravot.<\/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&#8217;s Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan, meeting with the Armenian-American community in California, presented Armenian&#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],"tags":[17400,16431,16871,16432,20940,16863,20941],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60981"}],"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=60981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}