AMERICAN ASSISTANCE

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
Published on July 18, 2008
Armenia

The Subcommittee of Foreign Allocations of the US House of
Representatives approved the bill on allocating 52 million dollars’
assistance to Armenia, 8 million dollars’ assistance to Nagorno
Karabakh, and to Armenia and Azerbaijan – 3 million dollars’ military
assistance each.

The Bush administration is doing its best to cut by 60 % the 58,5
million dollars’ allocation to Armenia, reducing it to 24 million. By
the bill proposed by the administration the balance of the assistance
shown to Armenia and Azerbaijan is breached.

39 members of the House of Representatives, co-Chairman of the American
Congress of Armenians headed by Frank Palone and Joe Nolenberg,
exhorted the Subcommittee of Foreign Allocations to review the volume
of the assistance.

Joe Nolenberg proposed to bring to zero the military assistance shown
to Azerbaijan, but the proposal was not accepted by the ratio of 7
for and 8 against votes.