sentences:  As of September 2007, the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan has allocated the first US$50 million installment of this loan.The European Union and the United States declined to assist in the financing or promoting of the line because they saw it as being designed to bypass Armenia, supporting instead the reopening of the Kars-Gyumri-Tbilisi railway line, thanks in part to pressure on the US Congress from Armenian lobbies in Washington like ARMENPAC or the Armenia National Committee in America.The EU did later "welcome the new rail corridor".