{"id":262759,"date":"2026-05-14T09:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=262759"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:42:07","slug":"us-embassy-welcomes-announcement-on-lifting-armenia-turkey-bilateral-trade-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/262759\/","title":{"rendered":"US embassy welcomes announcement on lifting Armenia-Turkey bilateral trade restrictions"},"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 United States welcomes the announcement on lifting bilateral trade restrictions between Armenia and Turkey, the US embassy in Armenia said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This step demonstrates both countries&rsquo; commitment to expanding economic connectivity, and promoting lasting peace and prosperity in the South Caucasus region. We commend Armenia and T&uuml;rkiye for their continued efforts toward strengthening cooperation that benefits all peoples of the region,&rdquo; the embassy stated.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes after Turkey&rsquo;s foreign ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/262127\/\">announced<\/a> on Tuesday that the bureaucratic preparations required to launch direct trade between Armenia and Turkey had been completed.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States welcomes the announcement on lifting bilateral trade restrictions between Armenia and Turkey, the US embassy in Armenia said in a statement. &ldquo;This step demonstrates both countries&rsquo; commitment to expanding economic connectivity, and promoting lasting peace and prosperity in the South Caucasus region. We commend Armenia and T&uuml;rkiye for their continued efforts toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":262525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,82,98,47,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-turkey","category-other-en","category-society","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262759","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=262759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262760,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262759\/revisions\/262760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}