{"id":295730,"date":"2026-09-03T08:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=295730"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:57:51","slug":"lavrov-expressed-confidence-that-armenia-will-soon-lose-its-desire-to-join-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/295730\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov expressed confidence that Armenia will soon lose its desire to join the European Union"},"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>Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed confidence that Armenia will soon lose its desire to join the European Union, <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20260903\/lavrov-2115039571.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#1056;&#1048;&#1040; &#1053;&#1086;&#1074;&#1086;&#1089;&#1090;&#1080;<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Economically, the European Union is losing its advantages due to many factors, including its own shortsightedness, if not stupidity. Out of inertia, countries&mdash;such as our Serbian friends and now our Armenian colleagues&mdash;continue striving to join the EU. I am confident that they will lose this desire very soon,&rdquo; Lavrov said on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed confidence that Armenia will soon lose its desire to join the European Union, &#1056;&#1048;&#1040; &#1053;&#1086;&#1074;&#1086;&#1089;&#1090;&#1080; reports. &ldquo;Economically, the European Union is losing its advantages due to many factors, including its own shortsightedness, if not stupidity. Out of inertia, countries&mdash;such as our Serbian friends and now our Armenian colleagues&mdash;continue striving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,47,101,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-society","category-economy","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295730","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295731,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295730\/revisions\/295731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}