{"id":254396,"date":"2026-04-17T12:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=254396"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:35:52","slug":"south-caucasus-gains-special-importance-georgian-pm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/254396\/","title":{"rendered":"South Caucasus gains special importance, Georgian PM says"},"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>Against the backdrop of global uncertainty and change, the South Caucasus region is gaining particular importance, Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze said during a panel discussion at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Georgia has long proven itself to be a reliable bridge between Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are doing everything possible to maximize Georgia&rsquo;s role as a connecting hub. In the current context, when trade routes are facing challenges, we can offer our partners certain services. Georgia serves as a transit hub for goods, services, energy, and digital data exports. We will work to further strengthen this function for the country,&rdquo; Kobakhidze added.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the backdrop of global uncertainty and change, the South Caucasus region is gaining particular importance, Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze said during a panel discussion at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum. He noted that Georgia has long proven itself to be a reliable bridge between Europe and Asia. &ldquo;We are doing everything possible to maximize Georgia&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":254342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254396","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=254396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254397,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254396\/revisions\/254397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}