NEWS BRIEFS
ARMENIA: US CONGRESS APPROVES $50 MILLION IN AID TO YEREVAN AND KARABAKH
12/11/09

The US House of Representatives and Senate on December 9 approved a
proposal to provide $41 million to Armenia and $8 million to the
ethnic Armenian-dominated breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, Armenian
news sources reported.

The Asbarez Post newspaper said that the final number is a reconciled
version of the House’s more generous offer of almost $60 million and
the Senate’s proposed $30 million package, which did not include aid
for Karabakh and was a 39-percent decrease from 2008. Aram Hamparian,
director of the Armenian National Committee of America, a Diaspora
group, said that the aid package to Armenia is down to "nearly half of
what was appropriated two years ago," Asbarez reported on December 11.

Posted December 11, 2009 © Eurasianet