{"id":123360,"date":"2025-01-14T18:19:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=123360"},"modified":"2025-01-15T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:38:33","slug":"european-commissioner-for-enlargement-the-eu-will-carefully-consider-armenias-possible-membership-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/123360\/","title":{"rendered":"European commissioner for enlargement: The EU will carefully consider Armenia&#8217;s possible membership application"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The European Union will carefully examine Armenia&rsquo;s potential membership application, European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said in a speech at the European Parliament&rsquo;s Committee on Foreign Affairs in Brussels, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/a\/evramioutyouny-manramasn-kousoumnasiri-hayastani-andamaktsoutyan-hnaravor-dimoumy-kos\/33275465.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azatutyun<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We can also hear that there are positive developments toward submitting an application for EU membership. That is a choice, and we must study all applications in great detail, and we will do the same in Armenia&rsquo;s case. However, this choice, if Armenia decides to apply, comes with obligations. And I am sure, as is on my agenda, to visit Armenia in the first half of the year to see on the ground what we need to do in advance or what information needs to be exchanged,&rdquo; Kos said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the government approved a draft law on the initiation of the process for Armenia&rsquo;s membership in the European Union, sending it to Parliament for discussion.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union will carefully examine Armenia&rsquo;s potential membership application, European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said in a speech at the European Parliament&rsquo;s Committee on Foreign Affairs in Brussels, Azatutyun reports. &ldquo;We can also hear that there are positive developments toward submitting an application for EU membership. That is a choice, and we must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":123188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}