{"id":66780,"date":"2011-02-15T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=66780"},"modified":"2011-02-15T17:25:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:25:40","slug":"un-asks-yerevan-vendors-to-develop-business-plan-but-vendors-say-thats-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/15\/un-asks-yerevan-vendors-to-develop-business-plan-but-vendors-say-thats-impossible.html","title":{"rendered":"UN Asks Yerevan Vendors to Develop Business Plan, But Vendors Say That&#8217;s Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN Resident Coordinator in Armenia Dafina Gercheva met with a few of the Yerevan street vendors protesting outside the UN office earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Narine Vardanyan, who was one of the vendors Gercheva met with, told Epress.am that they shared their concerns in detail with the UN staff member.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She listened to us, but said they&#8217;re not the agency that can solve this issue. In any case, she promised to raise the issue when her office meets with the Armenian government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She also said if we present them with a 6,000-person business plan, they&#8217;ll be able to help us,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Vardanyan, however, is convinced that they can&#8217;t carry out such a plan since the vendors are of different ages and work in different trades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until city hall finds a venue, how long can we tell our children to remain hungry, how long can we not pay the electricity bill,&#8221; said Vardanyan, noticeably upset.<\/p>\n<p>She informed Epress.am that their next protest will be on Feb. 17 at 10 am outside the government building.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, the protest today began outside the Armenian government building at around noon but then moved to the UN office.<\/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>UN Resident Coordinator in Armenia Dafina Gercheva met with a few of the Yerevan street vendors protesting outside the UN office earlier today.<!-- 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":66750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21899,21900,21593,20406,13637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66780"}],"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=66780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}