{"id":52880,"date":"2013-11-22T10:47:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T06:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=52880"},"modified":"2013-11-22T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T06:47:52","slug":"nato-week-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=52880","title":{"rendered":"NATO Week in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy is pleased to congratulate Armenia on its successful hosting of the November 18 \u2013 22 \u201cNATO Week.\u201d The United States values and supports Armenia\u2019s partnership with NATO.\u00a0 NATO Week highlighted Armenia\u2019s contributions to international peace operations and launched a joint Armenia-NATO effort designed to foster integrity and reduce corruption in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia is working to become a greater contributor to international peace and security.\u00a0 Armenia is actively seeking to expand its peacekeeping commitments, both with NATO and the UN, and is negotiating to support missions in Lebanon and Mali. We welcome Armenia\u2019s willingness to contribute to peace operations around the world and are eager to support Armenian contributions to peace operations.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia\u2019s cooperation with NATO has opened up opportunities for joint training and exercises, and for gaining valuable experience serving together with NATO partners in peace operations.\u00a0 The U.S. government has provided robust support toward the development of Armenia\u2019s peacekeeping brigade and continues to seek opportunities to expand our support.\u00a0 U.S. and Armenian soldiers are also working side-by-side in Kosovo in support of wider international efforts to build peace and stability in the area.\u00a0 Armenian peacekeepers tackle a broad range of assignments withdistinction and honor.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia is well on its way to developing peacekeeping brigade that is interoperable with its partners and capable to be deployed\u00a0in support to various peace operations.\u00a0 Armenia is making great strides towards developing this highly-trained and capable brigade and the Embassy would like to congratulate Armenia on its excellent progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy is pleased to congratulate Armenia on its successful hosting of the November&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}