US CONGRESS ASSERTS DRAFT TO ALLOCATE $3.5 MILLION FOR MILITARY AID TO AZERBAIJAN

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
June 25 2007

The US House of Representatives asserted draft on allocating $3.5
million for military assistance to Azerbaijan and Armenia in 2008,
APA’s US bureau reports.

$500 thousand of this amount have been allotted for financing military
education and training programs. The rest $3 million will be rendered
in a form of foreign military aid.

Moreover, the US Congress Lower Chamber asserted the draft on
allocating $68 million to Armenia in 2008, $10 million to the
separatist regime (NKR), which is controlling occupied Azerbaijani
regions, for humanitarian aid.