{"id":124115,"date":"2019-09-17T13:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T13:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2019\/09\/17\/248742\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:38:42","slug":"armenias-foreign-debt-dropped-by-120-million-months-over-past-15-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2019\/09\/17\/124115\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s foreign debt dropped by $120 million months over  past 15 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, September 17. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Armenia\u2019s foreign debt dropped by $120 million over the past 15 months, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference in Vanadzor on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said it was the first  drop in foreign debt of the country since 2015. He said also according to official data, as of June 2019, the country&#8217;s foreign debt was less by $120 million, or 2.1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Pashinyan said that the reduction of the debt resulted from the effective spending of state funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, this, of course, to some extent slows down the pace of capital expenditures, &#8220;since the system was  used to working according to other, well-known rules.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he said the right path was chosen &#8211; not to allow spending of state funds on poor-quality construction and kickbacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official statistics, Armenia&#8217;s  total public debt at the end of June 2019 stood at $6.934 billion; the  external debt  stood at  $4.930.9 billion .&#8211; 0\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia\u2019s foreign debt dropped by $120 million over the past 15 months, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference in Vanadzor on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,12347,15497],"class_list":{"0":"post-124115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-foreign-debt","11":"tag-15497"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}