US HOUSE ADOPTS $10 MILLION AID TO OCCUPIER SIDE IN KARABAKH
By Nilgun Gulcan with agencies
Journal of Turkish Weekly
Aug 4 2009
* The US Senate Appropriations Committee Maintains President’s Request
for Armenia Aid While Cutting Foreign Aid Budget. The US will make
aid to the occupier side in Karabakh, Armenians in the mid of the
sensitive peace negotiations. The Karabakh and many other Azerbaijani
provinces have been under Armenian occupation
WASHINGTON – On July 10 evening, the U.S. House of Representatives
approved the earlier Appropriations Committee requests for $48 million
in U.S. aid to Armenia and $10 million in aid to unrecognized Karabakh
Administration.
The decision has made happy the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA). House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), Congressional Armenian Caucus co-chair
Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), all active supporters
of Armenia assistance provisions, welcomed the House decision. There
is a strong Armenian lobby group in the US Congress.
The Armenian lobby members fully support the Armenian occupation in
the region although Armenia is one of the strongest allies of Russia
in the Caucasus.