US House Committee on Appropriations released its reports for the Fiscal Year 2022 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs and Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bills, Armenian Assembly of America reports.

It recommends not less than $50 million for Armenia "for economic development, private sector productivity, energy independence, democracy, the rule of law, and other purposes." In addition, the report language also calls for "not less than $2.000.000 for demining activities in Artsakh."

With the Subcommittee having considered the draft Bill on Monday, June 25, 2021, the full committee is poised to "mark-up" the legislation tomorrow, July 1, 2021.

The Bill also restates Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act, in addition to prohibiting the sale of defense articles to the Turkish Presidential Protection Directorate. The report also reiterates the Assembly’s concerns about the military disparity in U.S. assistance to Armenia and Azerbaijan.

"In 1992, Congress took a principled stand against Azerbaijani aggression with the adoption of Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act, which states that U.S. funds "may not be provided to the Government of Azerbaijan until the President determines and so reports to the Congress, that the Government of Azerbaijan is taking demonstrable steps to cease all blockades and other offensive uses of force against Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh," the document states.