The amount of the financial aid official Washington is providing to Armenia in
2004 is one of the largest, taking into account the number of the country
population, US Ambassador to Armenia John Ordway told journalists in Yerevan. In
his words, the volume will be preserved in the future. As of the military
assistance, the diplomat noted, it was not changed as compared with the past
year. At that he found it difficult to speak of the final amount of the
assistance, as the US Congress will be deciding the issue within several months.
However, in J. Ordway’s words, the significant difference in the amount of
military assistance being provided by the US to Armenia and Azerbaijan is very
topical and the question is constantly being raised in the Congress. He noted
that the Washington Administration has proposed increasing the military
assistance to Azerbaijan, taking into consideration the official Baku needs in
strengthening struggle against terrorism, illegal turnover of drugs, as well as
the problem of the Caspian. The volume and forms of military assistance to
Azerbaijan will not tell on the power balance in the region, the US Ambassador
emphasized.
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