{"id":47832,"date":"2022-05-02T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47832"},"modified":"2022-05-02T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T00:01:11","slug":"secretary-blinkens-meeting-with-armenian-foreign-minister-mirzoyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47832","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Mirzoyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>05\/02\/2022 03:43 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ararat Mirzoyan in Washington, D.C. to launch the U.S.-Armenia Strategic Dialogue.\u00a0 The Secretary committed to further strengthening bilateral relations in line with our shared democratic values and continuing cooperation on Armenia\u2019s reform agenda.\u00a0 During their meeting, the Secretary and Foreign Minister signed a Nuclear Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding, paving the way for increased cooperation on civil nuclear matters as Armenia looks to diversify its energy supply.\u00a0 The Secretary and Foreign Minister discussed Armenia\u2019s progress in implementing democratic, rule of law, and anti-corruption reforms.\u00a0 They also discussed the ongoing dialogue between Armenia and its neighbors.\u00a0 Secretary Blinken thanked the Foreign Minister for the flexibility Armenia has shown and encouraged further direct talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan, underscoring the U.S commitment to help Armenia and Azerbaijan find sustainable peace and prosperity, including in our capacity as an OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/02\/2022 03:43 PM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47833,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47832\/revisions\/47833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}