{"id":2790,"date":"2022-10-17T16:13:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T23:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2022-10-21T22:16:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T05:16:18","slug":"u-s-congress-delegation-arrives-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/u-s-congress-delegation-arrives-in-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Congress Delegation Arrives in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">YEREVAN \u2013 A U.S. Congress delegation has arrived in Armenia, the press service of the Armenian parliament reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said the delegation led by Chairman \u00a0of the House Democracy Partnership\u00a0(HDP) Commission David Price comprises members of the House of Representatives Diana DeGette, Jim Cooper and Andy Levin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">House Democracy Partnership\u2019s mission is to work with countries around the world to promote responsive, effective government and strengthen democratic institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Armenia is one of 20 countries which have formal partnership agreements with HDP. Other such countries in the region are Georgia, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Lebanon and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 17-19 a US delegation led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited Armenia in which she repeatedly emphasized the importance of Armenia\u2019s security and democracy for the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During her visit, Nancy Pelosi assured that the United States will continue to actively contribute to the further expansion of bilateral multi-sectoral cooperation and the programs aimed at the development of democracy in Armenia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The delegation led by Pelosi visited the Armenian Genocide Victims\u2019 Memorial Complex, held meetings with the Speaker of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, gave a press conference, spoke at the Gafesjian Art Center, met with the parliamentary opposition, and had a meeting with the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan. She condemned Azerbaijan\u2019s aggression against Armenia and pledged U.S. support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YEREVAN \u2013 A U.S. Congress delegation has arrived in Armenia, the press service of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"post_badge":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan.jpg",700,425,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan-250x152.jpg",250,152,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan.jpg",640,389,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan-400x243.jpg",400,243,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan.jpg",700,425,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan.jpg",700,425,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan.jpg",700,425,false],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan.jpg",700,425,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan.jpg",700,425,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan-540x340.jpg",540,340,true],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan-400x250.jpg",400,250,true],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan-45x45.jpg",45,45,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"ArmenianCouncil","author_link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/author\/armeniancouncil\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rep-david-Price-Yerevan.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_badge?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}