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U.S. House Subcommittee votes for bill on $10 million assistance to separatist Nagorno Karabakh regime in 2010

18 June 2009 07:56 (UTC +04:00)

APAâ€™s US bureau reports that one of the amendments is $48 million assistance to Armenia in stead of $30 million economic aid proposed by the White House. Under the pressure of pro-Armenian members of the Subcommittee it was proposed to render $10 million direct assistance to the separatist Nagorno Karabakh regime.

The White House administration did not offer any assistance to Nagorno Karabakh in the draft budget for 2010 or in previous years. Financial assistance to the so-called regime is offered under the pressure of pro-Armenian members of the Congress. The executive director of Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Aram Hamparian together with the Senate expressed their intention to increase economic aid to Armenia by $70 million. Discussions on the draft budget will continue in both houses of the Congress by September-October.

U.S. Azeris Network (USAN) has seriously begun dealing with the campaign for informing media. Hundreds of local Azerbaijanis have already sent letters of protest to President Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden, speakers of both houses of the Congress and a number of other persons.

USAN has sent its second letter on this issue in the past two months to nearly all of the 10,000 Congressional staffers in the House and Senate offices.