{"id":12041,"date":"2009-05-06T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T09:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=12041"},"modified":"2014-01-05T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:15:15","slug":"armenia-withdraws-from-nato-drills-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/05\/06\/armenia-withdraws-from-nato-drills-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia withdraws from NATO drills in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>MOSCOW, May 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; Armenia will not participate in the NATO-led military exercises in Georgia, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday, citing the Armenian Defense Ministry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> &#8220;Due to the current situation, Armenian troops will not take part in NATO&#8217;s exercises in Georgia,&#8221; the ministry was quoted by Itar-Tass and RIA Novosti as saying in a statement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Russia is satisfied with some countries&#8217; decision to pull out of the drills, Itar-Tass reported. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> The planned exercises, scheduled for May 6 to June 1, have drawn strong opposition from Moscow. About 1,300 soldiers from over a dozen NATO member or ally states were originally scheduled to participate, but Kazakhstan, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova and Serbia have already withdrawn. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Source: news.xinhuanet.com, <\/span><span class=\"hui12\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>06-05-2009<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, May 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; Armenia will not participate in the NATO-led military exercises in Georgia, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday, citing the Armenian Defense Ministry. &#8220;Due to the current situation, Armenian troops will not take part in NATO&#8217;s exercises in Georgia,&#8221; the ministry was quoted by Itar-Tass and RIA Novosti as saying in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":60691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-georgia-caucasus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}