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Sassounian: Congress Should Investigate State Dept. for Holding Back Aid to Artsakh

The State Department has acted negligently and possibly in contempt of Congress by withholding assistance that the latter had expressly allocated to Nagorno-Karabagh (Artsakh) during the past 12 years. The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) revealed last week that the State Department only spent about half of the amount allocated by Congress to Artsakh. From 1998-2010, Congress appropriated to Artsakh $61 million, not including an additional amount estimated at $10 million, allocat

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Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

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  1. Shame on the Democrats & Republican Administrations to block the $25 million in aid to Artsakh because of pressure by the Azeri’s. What kind of a world do we live in that the American Government aids criminal countries like Azerbaijan & Turkey whom have committed Genocide after Genocide from the 10th Century to the present and moslemized millions of Christian Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, etc. When will the world help the small nations to survive or don’t they give a damn. Armenians must wake up and get organized before it is too late.

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