{"id":297108,"date":"2026-09-10T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=297108"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:20:11","slug":"u-s-representative-raised-the-question-of-armenian-hostages-held-in-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/297108\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Representative raised the question of Armenian hostages held in Baku"},"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>U.S. Representative Mike Carey raised the Armenian hostages held in Baku during the House Ways and Means Committee hearing &ldquo;Strategic Partnerships to Secure Critical Resources and Supply Chains&rdquo; on September 2. The Armenian National Congress of America (ANCA) announced this on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Carey framed his remarks around Armenia&rsquo;s standing as the first nation to adopt Christianity before turning to the Armenians Azerbaijan continues to hold.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan holds Armenian hostages &mdash; among them the elected leadership of Artsakh &mdash; following its genocidal ethnic cleansing of the region.<\/p>\n<p>The ANCA, in its turn, urges Congress to press Azerbaijan for the release of every Armenian hostage held in Baku.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Representative Mike Carey raised the Armenian hostages held in Baku during the House Ways and Means Committee hearing &ldquo;Strategic Partnerships to Secure Critical Resources and Supply Chains&rdquo; on September 2. The Armenian National Congress of America (ANCA) announced this on its Facebook page. Carey framed his remarks around Armenia&rsquo;s standing as the first nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,2,35,43,95,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prisonersofwar","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan","category-society","category-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297108","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=297108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297109,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297108\/revisions\/297109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}