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PRESS RELEASE
December 10, 2009
US CONGRESS ALLOCATES $8 MILLION TO ARTSAKH
Omits Restrictions for Activity in Nagorno Karabakh
Washington, DC ` House and Senate approved a Consolidated
Appropriations Bill for 2010 fiscal year providing $8 million for
assistance to Artsakh. The Conference Committee, comprised of House
and Senate appropriators for reconciling the two versions of the 2010
foreign aid bill determined that `up to $8,000,000 be made available
for programs and activities in Nagorno – Karabakh’. Also, the
Committee has removed the traditional description of the provided aid
as humanitarian, thus eliminating any restrictions for the
implementation of different programs in the NKR.
"The people and authorities of Artsakh are grateful for the steadfast
support of the U.S. Congress, the whole American nation to the
post-war restoration of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic’, said NKR
Representative to USA Robert Avetisyan. `We would like to thank all
our friends, including our supporters on the Hill, for their objective
and impartial vision of the Nagorno Karabakh problem. We hope that a
continued and enhanced U.S. assistance will promote a sooner recovery
of my nation from the devastating results of the 1991-1994 aggression
by Azerbaijan’.
In view of Azerbaijan’s escalating warmongering, the Conference Report
also calls upon "all parties to the conflict to refrain from threats
of violence and the use of inflammatory rhetoric". `We share the
U.S. legislators’ approach that irresponsible and aggressive
statements are destructive and damaging for the regional stability’,
Avetisyan said.
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