{"id":201144,"date":"2025-10-27T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=201144"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:29:27","slug":"starting-today-armenia-ready-to-allow-turkey-azerbaijan-truck-transit-highlights-from-pashinyans-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/top-news\/201144\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting today Armenia ready to allow Turkey-Azerbaijan truck transit: Highlights from Pashinyan\u2019s speech"},"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>Nikol Pashinyan presented the draft 2026 budget in the National Assembly. Below are highlights from his speech:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the first time that we are discussing the RA budget under conditions of peace with Azerbaijan.<\/li>\n<li>Azerbaijan&rsquo;s announcement removing transit restrictions to Armenia is, in essence, a historic event and marks the first phase in overcoming Armenia&rsquo;s blockade.<\/li>\n<li>Starting today, we are ready to facilitate the transit of trucks from Turkey to Azerbaijan and from Azerbaijan to Turkey, specifically along the Margara&ndash;Yeghegnadzor&ndash;Sisian&ndash;Goris route. This is the only option we can implement immediately.<\/li>\n<li>We are rapidly developing our armed forces, and we are also developing the concept on which our armed forces are based.<\/li>\n<li>We assert that our army has no mission to operate outside the internationally recognized sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia.<\/li>\n<li>It is important that in our everyday working dialogue we transform the concept of a combat-ready army into a defense-ready army, because the term combat-ready does not specify where potential combat might occur or could occur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikol Pashinyan presented the draft 2026 budget in the National Assembly. Below are highlights from his speech: This is the first time that we are discussing the RA budget under conditions of peace with Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan&rsquo;s announcement removing transit restrictions to Armenia is, in essence, a historic event and marks the first phase in overcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":201121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201144","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=201144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201145,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201144\/revisions\/201145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}