Appropriation Subcommittee of the US Congress House of Representatives voted yesterday to allocate $70 million assistance to Armenia and $5 million to Nagorno Karabakh for fiscal year 2004. As reported by the Armenian National Committee of America, the sum, suggested by the subcommittee is $20 million more than the one provided by the US president’s administration ($45,9 million) however is $20 million less than the one approved by the US Congress in 2003. In addition to this, the Committee of the House of Representatives voted in favor of the allocation to Armenia $2,5 million as the military aid and $900 thousand for the training of the army. According to the source, the reduction of the financial aid to Armenia is connected with the general curtailment of the US aid to the former USSR states (from $755 million to $576 million). The bill on providing US foreign financial aid will undergo further discussions in the Committee for the Appropriation of the House of Representatives and later in the very House of Representatives. Only after that the present bill will be submitted to discussion in the US Senate.
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