{"id":45648,"date":"2020-10-20T23:31:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T23:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=45648"},"modified":"2020-10-29T08:37:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T08:37:29","slug":"grace-napolitano-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/grace-napolitano-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Congresswoman called for the recognition of Artsakh&#8217;s independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Grace-Napolitano.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>US Congresswoman Grace Napolitano introduced a resolution on Artsakh&#8217;s independence in the House of Representatives. She called for the official recognition of the independence of the Artsakh Republic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; The document submitted by the congresswoman refers to the historical origins of Artsakh, mentions that Artsakh has been a part of Armenia for thousands of years, and in recent decades has developed as an independent state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The history of Artsakh is very similar to the history of America, the victory of a free people over foreign rule,&#8221; the congresswoman wrote on her Twitter, presenting her appeal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Noting that today, when &#8220;rain of rockets&#8221; is fired at the citizens of Artsakh by Azerbaijan, Turkey and their Islamic State allies, freedom is the only answer to Artsakh&#8217;s survival.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Separation for salvation, based on history, the existence of laws. There can be no turning back, Artsakh cannot be part of Azerbaijan. &#8220;The way forward is the path to freedom, so today I call on the United States to formally recognize the independence of the Artsakh Republic,&#8221; the congresswoman concluded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full text in Armenian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">US Congresswoman Grace Napolitano introduced a resolution on Artsakh&#8217;s independence in the House of Representatives. She called for the official recognition of the independence of the Artsakh Republic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-179"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45688,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45648\/revisions\/45688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}