{"id":94789,"date":"2011-05-12T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T13:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=94789"},"modified":"2011-05-12T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T13:04:06","slug":"saakashvili-vows-to-build-new-singapore-on-capital-flowing-from-russia-and-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/12\/saakashvili-vows-to-build-new-singapore-on-capital-flowing-from-russia-and-turkey.html","title":{"rendered":"Saakashvili Vows to Build &#8216;New Singapore&#8217; on Capital Flowing from Russia and Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Mercury 2011 Business Award ceremony, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili vowed that Georgia, on account of Turkey and Russia, will soon become the &#8220;new Singapore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prospects for turning the country into a regional hub are great because corruption reigns in Russia and flowing out of there is capital, which Georgia must attract since there&#8217;s no corruption here, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Saakashvili also noted that likewise there is a surplus of capital in Turkey and Georgia should take advantage of both of these opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Seven years have passed since the Rose Revolution and that&#8217;s not enough time for a complete change of mentality. Georgia is now &#8220;unacceptably poor,&#8221; but it has the chance to become the fastest growing economy in Europe, he said.<\/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>During the Mercury 2011 Business Award ceremony, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili vowed that Georgia, on&#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":94655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[699,10256,10957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94789"}],"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=94789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}