{"id":178062,"date":"2025-08-29T13:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=178062"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:32:47","slug":"highlights-from-armenia-us-memorandum-of-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/178062\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from Armenia-US Memorandum of Understanding"},"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 text of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Republic of Armenia and the United States has been published, several important points of which are presented below; the full version can be found on the Government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.primeminister.am\/hy\/press-release\/item\/2025\/08\/29\/Nikol-Pashinyan-memorandum-08-08-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of cooperation between the U.S. and Armenian governments regarding an AI and semiconductor innovation partnership<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raising awareness among US private sector, associations and other relevant stakeholders about semiconductor ecosystem and trusted export control mechanisms existing in Armenia;<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing export controls for secure semiconductor supply chains;<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening effective export controls for artificial intelligence application and model development;<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening cooperation between the Participants to define, identify and prevent diversion of artificial intelligence resources;<\/li>\n<li>Preparing the workforce to effectively use and integrate artificial intelligence applications, including issues of freedom, accuracy, integrity, and purpose;<\/li>\n<li>Opportunities for promoting investment and infrastructure development in Armenia&rsquo;s high-tech sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Areas of cooperation between the US and Armenian governments regarding an energy security partnership<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Civil nuclear energy cooperation, including small modular reactor technologies;<\/li>\n<li>Promoting investment to bolster Armenia&rsquo;s critical energy infrastructure, including in the development of battery energy storage stations for renewable energy resources; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ndash; Promoting investment to modernize Armenia&rsquo;s electricity transmission and distribution grids;<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; Enhancing cybersecurity of Armenia&rsquo;s energy infrastructure, including through technical assistance.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The text of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Republic of Armenia and the United States has been published, several important points of which are presented below; the full version can be found on the Government website. Areas of cooperation between the U.S. and Armenian governments regarding an AI and semiconductor innovation partnership Raising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":178012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178062","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=178062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178064,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178062\/revisions\/178064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}