Washington / 25.04.17 / Turan: President of the United States Donald Trump intends to drastically reduce aid to developing countries, and also to unite the State Department with the Agency for International Development, reported the publication Foreign Policy, which received at its disposal the text of a 15-page document on the State Department budget.
These reductions are planned for the 2018 fiscal year. Thus, financial assistance to Armenia will be reduced by 77.3% - up to $ 4 million. Assistance to Azerbaijan (7 million) and Belarus will be reduced by 100%, and Georgia by 41.1%, Ukraine - by 68.8%. It should be noted that the assistance of the US government was provided to state institutions. -02D
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