USA to provide equal aid package to Azerbaijan, Armenia

AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Dec 23 2004

The US Congress intends to provide equal military assistance to
Azerbaijan and Armenia next year, the US ambassador to Azerbaijan
Reno Harnish said.

Considering Azerbaijan’s active involvement in the anti-terror
coalition, the US President has proposed to set the military
assistance to Azerbaijan in 2005 at $8 million, he said. However, the
US Congress exercised its authority and set the figure at $2 million,
the same package to be allocated to Armenia. But the law on foreign
allocations is not the only source to be used in providing military
aid to Azerbaijan, the ambassador said.

“We highly appreciate cooperation with Azerbaijan in the area of
security and fighting global terror,” said Harnish, adding that the
US administration plans to continue this collaboration in the future.