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In 2006 US Direct Aid to Armenia Made up $76 Million

 

/PanARMENIAN. Net/ In 2006 US direct aid to Armenia has made up $76 million, to Karabakh-$3 million, as well as observing the parity of $3.5 million for military assistance to Armenia and Azerbaijan, says the RA MFA annual report on Armenia’s foreign activities in 2006. The document stresses that the main event in the Armenian-American relations in 2006 became the signing of Millennium Challenges program on March, according to which Armenia will be granted $236 million for overcoming poverty and developing its economy. The program is scheduled for 5 years and is addressed to the population in the villages and development of agrobusiness. In December the American government granted the first portion-$1.4 million of the grant.

“During the year American high ranking diplomats visited the Armenia: Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Mathew Braiza, the State Secretary Assistant of the US, Ambassador John Danilovich, Representative Jim Kolbe. On March Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian had meetings with US State Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Daniel Fried and Mathew Braiza, says the report. The document also reminds about the ban on financing the construction of bypassing Armenia Kars-Akhalkalaki- Tbilisi-Baku railway by the Export-Importing bank and the American aid in retraining the workers of Armenian national security.

“In the sphere of Armenian-American economic cooperation for Armenia it is important the signing of bilateral treaty on refusing from bilateral taxation and widening the list of Armenian exporting goods to the United States,” says the RA MFA report.

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