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    "MONEY FOR DAYTON": THIS IS OPPOSITION REPRESENTATIVES' OPINION ABOUT
    FUNDS ALLOCATED TO ARMENIA UNDER MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE PROGRAM

    YEREVAN, MARCH 31, NOYAN TAPAN. "Money for Dayton": this is the whole
    opposition's opinion about the funds allocated to Armenia under the
    Millennium Challenge Program. (NT: The matter concerns the agreements
    on Yugoslavia signed in Dayton in 1995.) Aram Karapetian, Chairman
    of the New Times Party, stated during a debate held at the Mirror
    Club that part of this sum "will be stolen." However, according to
    Gagik Minasian, member of the Republican Party, Chairman of the RA NA
    Standing Committee on Financial, Credit, Budget and Economic Issues,
    all international experts believe that Armenia's economy has no rival
    in the post-Soviet territory in terms of its legislation and the
    progress registered. "There are problems, but to say that the sum was
    provided without significant prerequisites is not true," G. Minasian
    noted. A. Karapetian expressed confidence that there is a political
    byplay in the allocation of this sum, since the program, in his words,
    will not be of any significance for promotion of the economy or an
    industrial growth. The political byplay is one: the Nagorno Karabakh
    problem and the issue of the liberated territories' status.

    He said that there are rumors circulating that some US subunits will be
    depolyed near the northern border of Iran in July-August. G. Minasian
    noted that the Millennium Challenge Program is mainly aimed at
    poverty reduction in rural areas. Touching upon the issue of the
    energy independence of Armenia, Aram Karapetian noted that Armenia
    lacks opportunities to import fuel itself.
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