US ASSISTANCE

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
Published on July 17, 2008
Armenia

The US House of Representatives and the Senate Allocation Committees
will separately discuss the bill on the foreign assistance of the
financial year of 2009.

On March, 2008, congressmen, co-Chairmen of American Congress of
Armenians Joe Nolenberg and Frank Palone, with the support of 37 other
Congressmen demanded from Nita Lowey to support the implementation of
the six principal goals adopted for the progress of the USA interests
in Armenia and the region.

They have proposed to cut the assistance shown to Azerbaijan, until it
continues its bellicose announcements, to allocate 5 million dollars’
military assistance to Armenia, to continue the implementation of
article 907 of the Freedom Assistance Act, to give 70 million dollars’
economic assistance to Armenia and give an end to the ban on the
USA-NKR touches.

The budget proposed by the White House in February of this year
has artificially cut the assistance shown to Armenia by 59%, over
again breaching the balance of the military assistance in favor of
Azerbaijan, and despite the intimidations of official Baku to use the
growing arsenal to resume the war against Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.