# FRIENDSHIP Act of 1993

The FRIENDSHIP Act of 1993 was enacted as a law of the United States enhancing prior statutory provisions which govern international relations between the former Republics of the Soviet Union and United States during the Cold War. The Act of Congress reformed United States statutes related to:
   * Armament export controls as related to military technology transfer limitations
   * Continental cultural and educational exchange
   * Cooperative foreign trade relations
   * Diplomatic relations with foreign allies
   * Global environmental shifts
   * Immigration and nationality requirements
   * International products exports
   * Societal propagandization as related to multicultural social ideology
H.R. 3000 was passed by the 103rd United States Congressional session and enacted into law by the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton on December 17, 1993.

## Titles of the Act

The 1993 Act was penned as nine titles establishing purposeful foreign relations as related to the development of emerging democracies and improved multinational partnerships.

### Title I: Policy of Friendship and Cooperation

    Statement of purpose
    Findings
    Statutory provisions that have been applicable to the Soviet Union.

### Title II: Trade and Business Relations

    Policy under Export Administration Act
    Representation of countries of Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the former Soviet Union in legal commercial transactions
    Procedures regarding transfers of certain Department of Defense-funded items
    Soviet slave labor

### Title III: Cultural, Educational, and Other Exchange Programs

    Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961
    Soviet-Eastern European research and training
    Fascell Fellowship Act
    Board for International Broadcasting Act
    Scholarship programs for developing countries
    Report on Soviet participants in certain exchange programs

### Title IV: Arms Control

    Arms Control and Disarmament Act
    Arms Export Control Act
    Annual reports on arms control matters
    United States/Soviet direct communication link

### Title V: Diplomatic Relations

    Personnel levels and limitations
    Other provisions related to operation of consulates and embassies
    Foreign Service Buildings Act

### Title VI: Oceans and the Environment

    Arctic Research and Policy Act
    Fur seal management
    Global climate protection

### Title VII: Regional and General Diplomatic Issues

    United Nations assessments
    Soviet occupation of Afghanistan
    Angola
    Self determination of the people from the Baltic States
    Obsolete references in Foreign Assistance Act
    Review of United States policy toward the Soviet Union

### Title VIII: Internal Security; Worldwide Communist Conspiracy

    Civil defense
    Report on Soviet press manipulation in the United States
    Subversive Activities Control Act
    Report on Soviet and international communist behavior

### Title IX: Miscellaneous

    Ballistic missile tests near Hawaii
    Nondelivery of international mail
    State-sponsored harassment of religious groups
    Murder of Major Arthur D. Nicholson
    Monument to honor victims of communism