{"id":6817,"date":"2021-06-22T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/us-state-department-comments-on-elections-held-in-armenia\/"},"modified":"2021-06-22T09:13:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:13:57","slug":"us-state-department-comments-on-elections-held-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/us-state-department-comments-on-elections-held-in-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"US State Department comments on elections held in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/US-State-Department-comments-on-elections-held-in-Armenia.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The US authorities look forward to working with the new government of Armenia to grow their bilateral relationship and cooperation, US Department Spokesperson Ned Price said commenting on the early parliamentary elections in Armenia, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/en\/\">Report<\/a> informs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge all parties to respect the rule of law and democratic principles and look forward to working with the new Government to grow our bilateral relationship and cooperation,\u201d reads a written statement by Ned Price released by the State Department. \u201cThe United States is committed to strengthening our partnership with Armenia based on shared democratic values. We commend Armenia for the progress it has made with respect to reforms and anti-corruption efforts and encourage Armenia to continue along this path, in line with the aspirations of the Armenian people, as expressed in the spring of 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States congratulates the people of Armenia on their June 20 parliamentary elections. We welcome the overall positive assessment by the OSCE\/ODIHR Election Observation Mission. We are pleased that ODIHR\u2019s preliminary conclusions noted voters\u2019 human rights and fundamental freedoms were generally respected, contestants were able to campaign freely, and that ODIHR assessed election-day vote counting as positive. We share ODIHR\u2019s concern regarding intense polarization and inflammatory rhetoric among key contestants.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '800789640666009');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/report.az\/en\/region\/us-state-department-comments-on-elections-held-in-armenia\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The US authorities look forward to working with the new government of Armenia to grow their bilateral relationship and cooperation, US Department Spokesperson Ned Price said commenting on the early parliamentary elections in Armenia, Report informs. \u201cWe urge all parties to respect the rule of law and democratic principles and look forward to working&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/us-state-department-comments-on-elections-held-in-armenia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US State Department comments on elections held in Armenia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,224,1070,928,1071,805],"class_list":["post-6817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","tag-armenia","tag-comments","tag-department","tag-elections","tag-held","tag-state","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}