The $8m allocated in aid to Nagorno-Karabakh by the US Congress in the 2010 budget is humanitarian aid, a US embassy official has said.
“We do not recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh republic,” Terry Davidson, public affairs officer at the US embassy in Baku, told 1news.az today.
“As for the assistance by Congress, the United States is helping the population, not the government. This is humanitarian assistance aimed at projects such as mine clearing. These projects are carried out by NGOs. Certainly, the United States also allocates assistance to internally displaced people in Azerbaijan. We would like to note that we have supported efforts on large-scale mine clearing, built new schools for IDPs and tried to improve their living conditions through different projects in the past,” he said.
The US House of Representatives and Senate approved a package of economic support which offers $22 million in aid to Azerbaijan, $41 million to Armenia and $8 million to the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh regime in 2010.
Yesterday the Azerbaijani ambassador to the USA handed a note to the US State Department, expressing Azerbaijan’s concern at Congress’ allocation of aid to Karabakh.
