What conditioned cancellation of Armenia's funding by Millennium Challenge Corporation?June 12, 2009 - 18:18 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "The decision of the American "Millennium Challenge Corporation" (MCC) to stop Armenia's funding, is related to the Yerevan City Council Elections on May 31," Armenia's ex-prime minister Hrant Bagratyan told a news conference today. According to Mr.Bagratyan, MCC has not very good relations with the WB. "The fact that the WB has decided to provide Armenia with a credit after American corporation announced about its decision to suspend Armenia's funding aftermath, proves that these two organizations are playing against each other," he said emphasizing that statements of the WB always contradict to each other, which is not WB's fault. "Armenia itself does not provide the WB with a profound and exact analysis in respect to the real state of affairs, therefore very often statements and forecasts of the WB are not confirmed", he said. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |