Middle East Economic Survey
VOL. XLVII
No 30
26-July-2004
AID
US House Votes To Block Aid To Saudi Arabia
The Republican-led US House of Representatives on 15 July voted by 217 to 191 to remove $25,000 earmarked for Saudi Arabia from the $19.4bn foreign aid bill for 2005. The vote was a defeat for US President George W Bush, who had strongly opposed the measure to remove the Saudi aid allocation. While the amount of aid designated for military training is insignificant (especially compared to the...
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