{"id":214753,"date":"2025-12-03T17:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=214753"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:56:07","slug":"lebanese-armenian-vicken-euljekjians-release-from-azerbaijani-captivity-in-lebanons-foreign-ministry-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/214753\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese-Armenian Vicken Euljekjian\u2019s release from Azerbaijani captivity in Lebanon\u2019s Foreign Ministry spotlight"},"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>During a meeting with Lebanon&rsquo;s Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji, Hakob Bagratouni&mdash;member of the ARF Bureau, the party&rsquo;s representative for the Middle East, and a member of Lebanon&rsquo;s Parliament&mdash;raised the issue of the prompt release of Lebanese-Armenian Vicken Euljekjian, who is being unlawfully held in Baku.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Rajji noted that the matter remains at the center of the Lebanese side&rsquo;s attention and that the necessary applications have been made. He emphasized, however, that it is important for the Armenian side to continue pursuing the case.<\/p>\n<p>The call for Euljekjian&rsquo;s release has drawn widespread attention due to concerns about his health.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in an interview with ABC Media, his wife said that her husband is unable to walk or stand. Prior to his capture, Vigen suffered from a herniated disc and was receiving treatment. His condition has deteriorated in Baku since his imprisonment.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a meeting with Lebanon&rsquo;s Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji, Hakob Bagratouni&mdash;member of the ARF Bureau, the party&rsquo;s representative for the Middle East, and a member of Lebanon&rsquo;s Parliament&mdash;raised the issue of the prompt release of Lebanese-Armenian Vicken Euljekjian, who is being unlawfully held in Baku. Minister Rajji noted that the matter remains at the center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":214749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,35,95,47,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prisonersofwar","category-politics","category-azerbeijan","category-society","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214753","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=214753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214754,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214753\/revisions\/214754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}