{"id":713,"date":"2008-07-16T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=713"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:23:59","slug":"us-armenia-agree-to-upgrade-armenian-capabilities-against-nuclear-smuggling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/07\/16\/us-armenia-agree-to-upgrade-armenian-capabilities-against-nuclear-smuggling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Armenia agree to upgrade Armenian capabilities against nuclear smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"author\" style=\"float: left;\">The Associated Press<\/div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/07\/14\/america\/NA-US-Armenia-Nuclear.php#\">WASHINGTON<\/span>:<\/strong> The United States and Armenia have agreed to cooperate against the smuggling of nuclear and radioactive\u00a0materials.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian signed the agreement in what is called a &#8220;joint action plan&#8221; that makes the cooperation activities\u00a0official.<\/p>\n<p>The document was signed Monday at the State Department and establishes a 28-step program to increase Armenia&#8217;s abilities to prevent, detect and respond to attempts at smuggling dangerous nuclear\u00a0materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In June 2003, authorities in Armenia&#8217;s neighbor Georgia arrested an individual trying to smuggle six ounces of highly enriched uranium into Armenia. <\/strong>Such trafficking surged as the Soviet Union broke apart in the early\u00a01990s.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/07\/14\/america\/NA-US-Armenia-Nuclear.php\">International Herald Tribune<\/span>, July 14, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press WASHINGTON: The United States and Armenia have agreed to cooperate against the smuggling of nuclear and radioactive\u00a0materials. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian signed the agreement in what is called a &#8220;joint action plan&#8221; that makes the cooperation activities\u00a0official. The document was signed Monday at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":643583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}