45 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ASK APPROPRIATORS TO MAINTAIN PARITY
& PROVIDE ARMENIA NO LESS THAN $75 MILLION IN ECONOMIC SUPPORT

YEREVAN, APRIL 21. ARMINFO. As House appropriators prepare to write
their funding bills for the 2006 Fiscal Year, 45 Members of Congress
today sent a letter to Foreign Operations Appropriations Chairman
Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) and ranking member Nita Lowey (D- NY) requesting
the subcommittee provide Armenia no less than $75 million in economic
support. The lawmakers also requested that the subcommittee maintain
military parity in aid between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The letter was initiated by U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ),
co-chairman of the Congressional Caucus on Armenia and Armenian Issues,
and U.S. Rep. George Radanovich (R-CA), an active member of the Caucus,
reports Pallone’s office.