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The  U. S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on State-Foreign Operations (SFO) has voted for some amendments to the draft budget for 2010.

APA“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.

AZERBAIJANI FM: PROVISION OF ANY HUMANITARIAN AID IN OCCUPIED LANDS SHOULD BE COORDINATED WITH AZERBAIJANI AUTHORITIES

Azerbaijan’s position on all issues regarding Armenian-occupied Azerbaijani lands, remains changeless, said spokesman for Azerbaijani FM Elkhan Polukhov, commenting on the news in Armenian mass medias that the United States allocated humanitarian aid to self-declared Nagorno Karabakh at $10 mln.

“Certainly, the humanitarian concern of the countries about Nagorno Karabakh residents is understandable and we are ready to support all humanitarian efforts but they must be coordinated with the Azerbaijani powers,” noted Polukhov.

“Azerbaijan still counts on the respect to sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. We believe that unilateral actions in the occupied lands can be viewed by Azerbaijan as support to separatism,” noted he.

“Azerbaijan insists on rendering this assistance equally to both communities of Nagorno Karabakh,” concluded Polukhov.