{"id":68149,"date":"2011-02-18T17:32:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=68149"},"modified":"2011-02-18T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T14:49:48","slug":"why-doesnt-ter-petrossian-listen-to-his-ideal-hayrikyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/18\/why-doesnt-ter-petrossian-listen-to-his-ideal-hayrikyan.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Doesn&#8217;t Ter-Petrossian Listen to his &#8216;Ideal&#8217; Hayrikyan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At one time, Levon Ter-Petrossian had said I was his &#8220;ideal.&#8221; Then why doesn&#8217;t he listen to what his &#8220;ideal&#8221; is saying right now? asked Union of National Self-Determination (NSDU) party leader Paruyr Hayrikyan, speaking to journalists in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to focus on this issue, but he was saying such a thing, why doesn&#8217;t he listen now, to what I think about this or that issue?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Hayrikyan didn&#8217;t want to comment on media reports that Ter-Petrossians&#8217; wife and son had left for the US, because, according to him, Ter-Petrossian plans to exacerbate the situation in Armenia soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know he has many friends in the US. He, no less than anyone else, has the right to address the issue of his family, just as any Armenian who couldn&#8217;t care less about the nation&#8217;s fate. They don&#8217;t understand that the nation is also a family,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, the Russian Reporter had earlier published WikiLeaks cables in which Charge d\u2019Affaires Joseph Pennington noted that Ter-Petrossian&#8217;s son David went to Los Angeles before the 2008 presidential elections at the urging of his father, &#8220;presumably out of concern for his son&#8217;s life.&#8221;<\/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>At one time, Levon Ter-Petrossian had said I was his &#8220;ideal.&#8221; Then why doesn&#8217;t he listen to what his &#8220;ideal&#8221; is saying right now? asked Union of&#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":68082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21114,22165,15568,16236,22122,13119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68149"}],"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=68149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}