A senior representative of the ruling Republican Party urged the United States on Tuesday to provide more economic assistance to Armenia under its Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program, saying that Yerevan's human rights record has improved since 2008.
U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch said on Friday that the Armenian government is currently not eligible for further MCA aid because it scores poorly on U.S. indicators of good governance. She said the government should, among other things, hold more democratic elections in order to again qualify for the scheme.
“I don’t fully agree with the ambassador,” Razmik Zohrabian, an HHK deputy chairman, told RFE/RL’s Armenian service. “But I partly agree that two years ago there were more shortcomings than now.”
Armenian News
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