U.S. may suspend Millennium Challenge AccountMarch 13, 2008 - 17:21 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "If Armenia doesn't observe certain provisions of the Millennium Challenge Account, the program may be stopped," RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told a news conference in Yerevan today. "Armenian authorities were facing a dilemma: security and stability or financial assistance. The matter is that democratic values have not taken final shape in Armenia yet. We should not forget that only 17 years have passed since the USSR decline. At that, it's worth mentioning that the U.S. will suspend financial flows to the structures which can't function under the emergency rule," he said. Earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that "the state of emergency in Armenia, imposed recently after rioting against the results of the presidential election, had made it necessary to suspend some U.S. programs there." Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. Partner news | Russia accuses West of preparing invasion of CSTO countries NATO is preparing an invasion of the CSTO countries, the number of provocations in the air is growing, Sergei Shoigu has said. Armenia: Rescue workers restore pedestrian bridge for flood-hit community Rescue workers on Wednesday, June 5 restored a pedestrian bridge in the town of Alaverdi in Armenia’s north. U.S. “deeply troubled” by Azerbaijan's arrest of civil society members The United States is deeply troubled by the continued arrest of members of Azerbaijani civil society, Matthew Miller has said. Turkey condemns Uruguay’s recognition of Armenian Genocide Turkey has condemned a newly passed law in Uruguay that recognizes the Armenian Genocide, TRT reports. |