AMMAN —
US embassy in Amman stated Thursday that President Joe Biden has sent a
proposed budget for the fiscal year 2023, including allocating around $1.45
billion to Jordan, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
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The embassy’s press
office told Al-Mamlaka TV that the proposed amount is unprecedented, stressing
that the final decision is left for the US congress in relation to the final
amount earmarked to Jordan in 2023.
It added that “Biden’s
request is an indication of the US readiness to maintain its support to Jordan,
as it is considered a friend and a valuable ally to the
US for a long time now,
in addition to Jordan being one of the US main strategic partners.”
The office also
stated that US and Jordanian officials are still discussing ways to restructure
future aid packages to Jordan and signing a new memorandum of understanding,
adding that the US is not expected to cut its aid to Jordan.
In 2018, Jordan and
the US signed a five-year term memorandum of understanding in which the US
president pledged to request $6.3 billion of external bilateral aid to Jordan.
The memo is set to end in 2022.
“We are strictly focusing
on providing financial aid to Jordan in a predictable way with the aim of
enhancing the Kingdom’s stability in the long run through main economic
structural reforms,” according to the office.
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