US Makes Financial Aid to Armenian Occupation

Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
June 18 2005

WASHINGTON – The Appropriations Sub-Committee of the U.S. House
of Representatives approved the levels of spending for Armenia
and Nagorno-Karabakh Occupation Administration proposed in the
Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill. The
bill calls for $67.5 million for Armenia, up to $5 million for the
unrecognized ‘Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’, and $5.75 million each in
military assistance to both Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenian forces
occupied Nagorno-Karabakh and many other Azerbaijani towns. The US
made pressures on Syria to withdraw from Lebanon while she gives
financial support to Armenian Occupation. Turkish experts finds the
American Armenia policy double-standard.

Although total U.S. financial aid to the countries of the former
Soviet Union continues to decline steadily, the aid earmarked for
Armenia is $12.5 million more than for FY 2005. Armenia, contrary to
the other regional countries, has very close relations with Russia.
Yerevan is considered the only Russian ally in the region.

The bill will be considered by the full House Appropriations Committee
in July.

More than 1 million Azerbaijanis have been refugees for more than
a decade and the US has made no aid to the Azerbaijani refugees. No
Azerbaijanis remained in Armenia after the Armenian discriminative
policies against the Muslims in Armenia. Not only the Muslims but
also the Jews and other ethnic groups have suffered from the Armenian
ultra-nationalism.

The EU and OSCE condemned the Armenian occupation in Nagarno-Karabakh
and no state recognize Karabakh as a separate political entity.