Last year there was a disagreement between the Administration and those of us in Congress on meeting the conditions of conditionality, but one thing is clear.
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Highlighting past disagreements on aid conditionality with the Administration.
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I am pleased that both are joining me. For those, I am sure you know, Senator Van Hollen is not only a champion for small businesses, he chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee of the Small Business Administration.
I appreciate that, and I support everything you just said, but it still begs the question that without much complaint Azerbaijan is now occupying part of Armenia--strategic part of Armenia--and there has been no real protest about their controlling the highlands next to Nagorno-Karabakh that puts Armenia at tremendous risk of the corridor that could divide the country or lose its southern edge, and I have not seen much of a fuss made by the international community.
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