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US CONGRESS NOT TO FUND KARABAKH SEPARATISTS
news.az
July 29, 2011
Azerbaijan
The US Congress will not provide financial aid to separatist
Nagorno-Karabakh in 2012.
The territory was omitted from the list of recipients of US government
aid in a bill for aid in 2012, passed by the House Appropriations
Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
on Thursday.
The US allocated $10m to Karabakh in 2011.
Azerbaijani MP Asim Mollazade said that the decision not to grant
aid to Nagorno-Karabakh was linked to two issues:
"First, the United States was illogically funding separatists
inside Azerbaijan, a country which is currently fighting terror
in Afghanistan and this illogicality has been removed. Although
pro-Armenian Congressmen continued their activity in the United
States, there have been some positive changes in this direction. The
second point here is connected with the problems with the US budget,"
Mollazade said.
A foreign affairs expert at the the Azerbaijani president's Strategic
Research Centre, Zaur Shiriyev, said that the work of the Azerbaijani
diaspora and government had also had an influence.
"The demands of the Azerbaijani diaspora to stop funding separatists in
Nagorno Karabakh - especially, the work of the US Azerbaijanis Network
- combined with the raising of this issue at bilateral meetings at the
state level have resulted in the cessation of aid to the separatists,"
Shiriyev said.
Meanwhile, political scientist Gabil Huseynli considers this decree
to be political.
"The US budget is really experiencing crisis. However, they usually
allocated $8-10m in aid to Karabakh, which does not mean anything
to the trillion budget of the United States. I think this decision
will promote talks and is a step towards creating positive aspects
in the talks."
Gun.Az
news.az
July 29, 2011
Azerbaijan
The US Congress will not provide financial aid to separatist
Nagorno-Karabakh in 2012.
The territory was omitted from the list of recipients of US government
aid in a bill for aid in 2012, passed by the House Appropriations
Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
on Thursday.
The US allocated $10m to Karabakh in 2011.
Azerbaijani MP Asim Mollazade said that the decision not to grant
aid to Nagorno-Karabakh was linked to two issues:
"First, the United States was illogically funding separatists
inside Azerbaijan, a country which is currently fighting terror
in Afghanistan and this illogicality has been removed. Although
pro-Armenian Congressmen continued their activity in the United
States, there have been some positive changes in this direction. The
second point here is connected with the problems with the US budget,"
Mollazade said.
A foreign affairs expert at the the Azerbaijani president's Strategic
Research Centre, Zaur Shiriyev, said that the work of the Azerbaijani
diaspora and government had also had an influence.
"The demands of the Azerbaijani diaspora to stop funding separatists in
Nagorno Karabakh - especially, the work of the US Azerbaijanis Network
- combined with the raising of this issue at bilateral meetings at the
state level have resulted in the cessation of aid to the separatists,"
Shiriyev said.
Meanwhile, political scientist Gabil Huseynli considers this decree
to be political.
"The US budget is really experiencing crisis. However, they usually
allocated $8-10m in aid to Karabakh, which does not mean anything
to the trillion budget of the United States. I think this decision
will promote talks and is a step towards creating positive aspects
in the talks."
Gun.Az