The Voice of America Armenian service spoke with Deborah Grieser, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Armenia Mission Director, about this mission’s programs and activities in Armenia.

Grieser said she is impressed with the progress made by Armenia over the past two years in terms of democratic development.

In the Nations in Transit report by the Freedom House, Armenia's respective indicators in the last two years have recorded the biggest progress in the history of this report, she stressed.

According to Grieser, the funding of USAID Armenia programs had been declining since 2012, but the velvet revolution in the country has significantly changed the situation, and now the budget for this mission has grown by about 88 percent.

As per Grieser, along with democracy development programs, the USAID is assisting in economic development programs in Armenia, and one of them is the tourism sector, which is experiencing significant growth in the country.

Deborah Grieser, who is in the last year of her mission in Armenia, has traveled extensively in the country. She is confident that after the end of her mission in Armenia, she will miss the warm atmosphere in which she has been in recent years. Grieser added that she will miss everything about Armenia.