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‘‘(12) wherever applicable, a description of the 
nature and extent of—
‘‘(A) propaganda in foreign government 
and foreign government-controlled media and 
other sources, including foreign government-pro-
duced educational materials and textbooks, that 
attempt to justify or promote racial hatred or 
incite acts of violence against any race or people; 
‘‘(B) complicity or involvement by the for-
eign government in the creation of such propa-
ganda or incitement of acts of violence against 
any race or people; and 
‘‘(C) a description of the actions, if any, 
taken by the foreign government to eliminate 
such propaganda or incitement.’’. 
(2) COUNTRIES
RECEIVING
SECURITY
ASSIST-
ANCE.—Section 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304(b)), as amended by section 
614(b)(2) of this Act, is further amended by inserting 
after the ninth sentence the following new sentence: 
‘‘Each report under this section shall also include, 
wherever applicable, a description of the nature and 
extent of propaganda in foreign government and for-
eign government-controlled media and other sources, 
including foreign government-produced educational
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materials and textbooks, that attempt to justify or 
promote racial hatred or incite acts of violence 
against any race or people, complicity or involvement 
by the foreign government in the creation of such 
propaganda or incitement of acts of violence against 
any race or people, and a description of the actions, 
if any, taken by the foreign government to eliminate 
such propaganda or incitement.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE OF AMENDMENT.—The amend-
ment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date 
of the enactment of this Act and apply beginning with the 
first report submitted by the Secretary of State under sec-
tions 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d) and 2304(b)) after such date. 
SEC. 1013. CHILD MARRIAGE. 
(a) ONE TIME REPORT.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a one time report on the practice of the custom of 
child marriage in countries around the world. The report 
shall include the following information: 
(1) A separate section for each country, as appli-
cable, describing the nature and extent of child mar-
riage in such country.
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(2) A description of the actions, if any, taken by 
the government of each such country, where applica-
ble, to revise the laws of such country and institu-
tionalize comprehensive procedures and practices to 
eliminate child marriage. 
(3) A description of the actions taken by the De-
partment of State and other Federal departments and 
agencies to encourage foreign governments to elimi-
nate child marriage and to support the activities of 
non-governmental organizations dedicated to elimi-
nating child marriage and supporting its victims. 
(b) INCLUSION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO CHILD 
MARRIAGE
IN ANNUAL COUNTRY REPORTS
ON HUMAN 
RIGHTS PRACTICES.—
(1) COUNTRIES
RECEIVING
ECONOMIC
ASSIST-
ANCE.—Section 116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d)), as amended by sections 
614(b)(1) and 1013(a)(1) of this Act, is further 
amended—
(A) in paragraph (11)(C), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) in paragraph (12)(C), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
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‘‘(13)(A) wherever applicable, a description of 
the nature and extent of laws and traditions in each 
country that enable or encourage the practice of child 
marriage; and 
‘‘(B) a description of the actions, if any, taken 
by the government of each such country to revise the 
laws of such country and institutionalize comprehen-
sive procedures and practices to eliminate child mar-
riage.’’. 
(2) COUNTRIES
RECEIVING
SECURITY
ASSIST-
ANCE.—Section 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304(b)), as amended by sections 
614(b)(2) and 1013(a)(2) of this Act, is further 
amended by inserting after the tenth sentence the fol-
lowing new sentence: ‘‘Each report under this section 
shall also include, wherever applicable, a description 
of the nature and extent of laws and traditions in 
each country that enable or encourage the practice of 
child marriage and a description of the actions, if 
any, taken by the government of each such country to 
revise the laws of such country and institutionalize 
comprehensive procedures and practices to eliminate 
child marriage.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE OF AMENDMENT.—The amend-
ment made by subsection (b) shall take effect on the date
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of the enactment of this Act and apply beginning with the 
first report submitted by the Secretary of State under sec-
tions 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d) and 2304(b)) after the report re-
quired under subsection (a). 
SEC. 1014. MAGEN DAVID ADOM SOCIETY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Section 690(a) of the Foreign Rela-
tions Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 
107–228), is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) Since the founding of the Magen David 
Adom Society in 1930, the American Red Cross has 
regarded it as a sister national society forging close 
working ties between the two societies and has consist-
ently advocated recognition and membership of the 
Magen David Adom Society in the International Red 
Cross and Red Crescent Movement. 
‘‘(6) The American Red Cross and the Magen 
David Adom Society signed an important memo-
randum of understanding in November 2002, out-
lining areas for strategic collaboration, and the Amer-
ican Red Cross will encourage other societies to estab-
lish similar agreements with the Magen David Adom 
Society.’’. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—Section 690(b) of such Act 
is amended—
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(1) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-
graph (5); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva 
Conventions of August 12, 1949, should adopt the Oc-
tober 12, 2000, draft additional protocol which would 
accord international recognition to an additional dis-
tinctive emblem; and’’. 
(c) REPORT.—Section 690 of such Act is further 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(c) REPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the date 
of the enactment of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
Act, Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007, and one year thereafter, 
the Secretary of State shall submit a report, on a classified 
basis if necessary, to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees describing—
‘‘(1) efforts by the United States to obtain full 
membership for the Magen David Adom Society in 
the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Move-
ment; 
‘‘(2) efforts by the International Committee of 
the Red Cross to obtain full membership for the
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Magen David Adom Society in the International Red 
Cross and Red Crescent Movement; 
‘‘(3) efforts of the High Contracting Parties to 
the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, to adopt 
the October 12, 2000, draft additional protocol to the 
Geneva Conventions; 
‘‘(4) the extent to which the Magen David Adom 
Society is participating in the activities of the Inter-
national Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement; and 
‘‘(5) efforts by any state, member, or official of 
the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Move-
ment to prevent, obstruct, or place conditions upon—
‘‘(A) adoption by the High Contracting 
Parties to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 
1949, of the October 12, 2000, draft additional 
protocol to the Geneva Conventions; and 
‘‘(B) full participation of the Magen David 
Adom Society in the activities of the Inter-
national Red Cross and Red Crescent Move-
ment.’’. 
SEC. 1015. DEVELOPMENTS IN AND POLICY TOWARD INDO-
NESIA. 
(a) STATEMENT OF CONGRESS RELATING TO RECENT 
DEVELOPMENTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND REFORM.—Con-
gress—
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(1) recognizes the remarkable progress in democ-
ratization and decentralization made by Indonesia in 
recent years and commends the people of Indonesia on 
the pace and scale of those continuing reforms; 
(2) reaffirms—
(A) its deep condolences to the people of In-
donesia for the profound losses inflicted by the 
December 26, 2004, earthquake and tsunami; 
and 
(B) its commitment to generous United 
States support for relief and long term recon-
struction efforts in affected areas; 
(3) expresses its hope that in the aftermath of the 
tsunami tragedy the Government of Indonesia and 
other parties will succeed in reaching and imple-
menting a peaceful, negotiated settlement of the long-
standing conflict in Aceh; 
(4) commends the Government of Indonesia for 
allowing broad international access to Aceh after the 
December 2004 tsunami, and urges that international 
nongovernmental organizations and media be allowed 
unfettered access throughout Indonesia, including in 
Papua and Aceh; 
(5) notes with grave concern that—
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(A) reform of the Indonesian security forces 
has not kept pace with democratic political re-
form, and that the Indonesian military is subject 
to inadequate civilian control and oversight, 
lacks budgetary transparency, and continues to 
emphasize an internal security role within Indo-
nesia; 
(B) members of the Indonesian security 
forces continue to commit many serious human 
rights violations, including killings, torture, 
rape, and arbitrary detention, particularly in 
areas of communal and separatist conflict; and 
(C) the Government of Indonesia largely 
fails to hold soldiers and police accountable for 
extrajudicial killings and other serious human 
rights abuses, both past and present, including 
atrocities committed in East Timor prior to its 
independence from Indonesia; 
(6) condemns the intimidation and harassment 
of human rights and civil society organizations by 
members of the Indonesian security forces and mili-
tary-backed militia groups, and urges a complete in-
vestigation of the fatal poisoning of prominent human 
rights activist Munir in September 2004; and
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(7) urges the Government of Indonesia and the 
Indonesian military to continue to provide full, ac-
tive, and unfettered cooperation to the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation of the Department of Justice in 
its investigation of the August 31, 2002, attack near 
Timika, Papua, which killed three people (including 
two Americans, Rick Spier and Ted Burgon) and in-
jured 12 others, and to pursue the indictment, appre-
hension, and prosecution of all parties responsible for 
that attack. 
(b) FINDINGS RELATING TO PAPUA.—Congress finds 
the following: 
(1) Papua, a resource-rich province whose indig-
enous inhabitants are predominantly Melanesian, was 
formerly a colony of the Netherlands. 
(2) While Indonesia has claimed Papua as part 
of its territory since its independence in the late 
1940s, Papua remained under Dutch administrative 
control until 1962. 
(3) On August 15, 1962, Indonesia and the Neth-
erlands signed an agreement at the United Nations in 
New York (commonly referred to as the ‘‘New York 
Agreement’’) which transferred administration of 
Papua first to a United Nations Temporary Execu-
tive Authority (UNTEA), and then to Indonesia in
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1963, pending an ‘‘act of free choice . . . to permit 
the inhabitants to decide whether they wish to remain 
with Indonesia’’. 
(4) In the New York Agreement, Indonesia for-
mally recognized ‘‘the eligibility of all adults [in 
Papua] . . . to participate in [an] act of self-deter-
mination to be carried out in accordance with inter-
national practice’’, and pledged ‘‘to give the people of 
the territory the opportunity to exercise freedom of 
choice . . . before the end of 1969’’. 
(5) In July and August 1969, Indonesia con-
ducted an ‘‘Act of Free Choice’’, in which 1,025 se-
lected Papuan elders voted unanimously to join Indo-
nesia, in circumstances that were subject to both overt 
and covert forms of manipulation. 
(6) 
In 
the 
intervening 
years, 
indigenous 
Papuans have suffered extensive human rights abuses, 
natural resource exploitation, environmental degrada-
tion, and commercial dominance by immigrant com-
munities, and some individuals and groups estimate 
that more than 100,000 Papuans have been killed 
during Indonesian rule, primarily during the Su-
karno and Suharto administrations. 
(7) While the United States supports the terri-
torial integrity of Indonesia, Indonesia’s historical re-
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liance on force for the maintenance of control has 
been counterproductive, and long-standing abuses by 
security forces have galvanized independence senti-
ments among many Papuans. 
(8) While the Indonesian parliament passed a 
Special Autonomy Law for Papua in October 2001 
that was intended to allocate greater revenue and de-
cision making authority to the Papuan provincial 
government, the promise of special autonomy has not 
been effectively realized and has been undermined in 
its implementation, such as by conflicting legal direc-
tives further subdividing the province in apparent 
contravention of the law and without the consent of 
appropriate provincial authorities. 
(9) Rather than demilitarizing its approach, In-
donesia has reportedly sent thousands of additional 
troops to Papua, and military operations in the cen-
tral highlands since the fall of 2004 have displaced 
thousands of civilians into very vulnerable cir-
cumstances, contributing further to mistrust of the 
central government by many indigenous Papuans. 
(10) According to the 2004 Annual Country Re-
port on Human Rights Practices of the Department 
of State, in Indonesia ‘‘security force members mur-
dered, tortured, raped, beat, and arbitrarily detained
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civilians and members of separatist movements’’ and 
‘‘police frequently and arbitrarily detained persons 
without warrants, charges, or court proceedings’’ in 
Papua. 
(c) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) REPORT ON SPECIAL AUTONOMY.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act and one year thereafter, the Secretary of State 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a report detailing implementation of special au-
tonomy for Papua and Aceh. Such reports shall in-
clude—
(A) an assessment of the extent to which 
each province has enjoyed an increase in revenue 
allocations and decision making authority; 
(B) a description of access by international 
press and non-governmental organizations to 
each province; 
(C) an assessment of the role played by local 
civil society in governance and decision making; 
(D) a description of force levels and conduct 
of Indonesian security forces in each province; 
and
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(E) a description of United States efforts to 
promote respect for human rights in each prov-
ince. 
(2) REPORT
ON
THE
1969
ACT
OF
FREE 
CHOICE.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
report analyzing the 1969 Act of Free Choice. 
SEC. 1016. MURDERS OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS JOHN 
BRANCHIZIO, 
MARK 
PARSON, 
AND 
JOHN 
MARIN LINDE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) On October 15, 2003, a convoy of clearly 
identified United States diplomatic vehicles was at-
tacked by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza resulting in 
the death of United States citizens John Branchizio, 
Mark Parson, and John Marin Linde, and the injury 
of a fourth United States citizen. 
(2) John Branchizio, Mark Parson, and John 
Marin Linde were contract employees providing secu-
rity to United States diplomatic personnel who were 
visiting Gaza in order to identify potential Pales-
tinian candidates for Fulbright Scholarships. 
(3) A senior official of the Palestinian Authority 
was reported to have stated on September 22, 2004,
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that ‘‘Palestinian security forces know who was be-
hind the killing’’ of John Branchizio, Mark Parson, 
and John Marin Linde. 
(4) Following her visit to Israel and the West 
Bank on February 7, 2005, Secretary of State 
Condoleezza Rice announced that she had been ‘‘as-
sured 
by 
President 
Abbas 
of 
the 
Palestinian 
Authority’s intention to bring justice to those who 
murdered three American personnel in the Gaza in 
2003’’. 
(5) Since the attack on October 15, 2003, United 
States Government personnel have been prohibited 
from all travel in Gaza. 
(6) The United States Rewards for Justice pro-
gram is offering a reward of up to $5,000,000 for in-
formation leading to the arrest or conviction of any 
persons involved in the murder of John Branchizio, 
Mark Parson, and John Marin Linde. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that—
(1) the continued inability or unwillingness of 
the Palestinian Authority to actively and aggressively 
pursue the murderers of United States citizens John 
Branchizio, Mark Parson, and John Marin Linde 
and bring them to justice calls into question the Pal-
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estinian Authority’s viability as a partner for the 
United States in resolving the Palestinian-Israeli con-
flict; 
(2) future United States assistance to the Pales-
tinian Authority may be affected, and the continued 
operation of the PLO Representative Office in Wash-
ington may be jeopardized, if the Palestinian Author-
ity does not fully and effectively cooperate in bringing 
to justice the murderers of John Branchizio, Mark 
Parson, and John Marin Linde; and 
(3) it is in the vital national security interest of 
the United States to safeguard, to the greatest extent 
possible consistent with their mission, United States 
diplomats and all embassy and consulate personnel, 
and to use the full power of the United States to bring 
to justice any individual or entity that threatens, 
jeopardizes, or harms them. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 30 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, and every 120 days thereafter, 
the Secretary of State shall submit a report, on a classified 
basis if necessary, to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees describing—
(1) efforts by the United States to bring to jus-
tice the murderers of United States citizens John 
Branchizio, Mark Parson, and John Marin Linde;
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(2) a detailed assessment of efforts by the Pales-
tinian Authority to bring to justice the murderers of 
John Branchizio, Mark Parson, and John Marin 
Linde, including—
(A) the number of arrests, interrogations, 
and interviews by Palestinian Authority officials 
related to the case; 
(B) the number of Palestinian security per-
sonnel and man-hours assigned to the case; 
(C) the extent of personal supervision or in-
volvement by the President and Ministers of the 
Palestinian Authority; and 
(D) the degree of cooperation between the 
United States and the Palestinian Authority in 
regards to this case; 
(3) a specific assessment by the Secretary of 
whether the Palestinian efforts described in para-
graph (2) constitute the best possible effort by the Pal-
estinian Authority; and 
(4) any additional steps or initiatives requested 
or recommended by the United States that were not 
pursued by the Palestinian Authority. 
(d) CERTIFICATION.—The requirement to submit a re-
port under subsection (c) shall no longer apply if the Sec-
retary of State certifies to the appropriate congressional
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committees that the murderers of United States citizens 
John Branchizio, Mark Parson, and John Marin Linde 
have been identified, arrested, and brought to justice. 
(e) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’ means—
(1) the Committee on International Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. 
SEC. 1017. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Israel is a friend and ally of the United 
States whose security is vital to regional stability and 
United States interests. 
(2) Israel currently maintains diplomatic rela-
tions with 160 countries, 33 countries do not have 
any diplomatic relations with Israel, and one country 
has partial relations with Israel. 
(3) The Government of Israel has been actively 
seeking to establish formal relations with a number of 
countries. 
(4) After 57 years of existence, Israel deserves to 
be treated as an equal country by its neighbors and 
the world community.
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(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that the United States should assist Israel in its efforts to 
establish diplomatic relations. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the 
Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a report that includes the following infor-
mation (in classified or unclassified form, as appropriate): 
(1) Actions taken by representatives of the 
United States to encourage other countries to establish 
full diplomatic relations with Israel. 
(2) Specific responses solicited and received by 
the Secretary from countries that do not maintain 
full diplomatic relations with Israel with respect to 
their attitudes toward and plans for entering into 
diplomatic relations with Israel. 
(3) Other measures being undertaken, and meas-
ures that will be undertaken, by the United States to 
ensure and promote Israel’s full participation in the 
world diplomatic community. 
(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’ means—
(1) the Committee on International Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives; and
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(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. 
SEC. 1018. TAX ENFORCEMENT IN COLOMBIA. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Com-
mittee on International Relations of the House of Rep-
resentatives, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate, the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives, and the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate a report detailing challenges to tax code enforce-
ment in Colombia. This report shall include, as a percent-
age of Colombia’s gross domestic product, an estimate of 
current tax revenue, an estimate of potential additional tax 
revenue if Colombia’s existing tax laws were fully enforced, 
and a discussion of how such additional revenue could be 
used to achieve the objectives of Plan Colombia, including 
supporting and expanding Colombia’s security forces and 
increasing the availability of alternative livelihoods for il-
licit crop growers and former combatants. 
SEC. 1019. PROVISION OF CONSULAR AND VISA SERVICES 
IN PRISTINA, KOSOVA. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
describing the possibility of providing consular and visa
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services at the United States Office Pristina, Kosovo 
(USOP) to residents of Kosova. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report required under subsection 
(a) shall contain the following information: 
(1) The reasons why consular and visa services 
are not currently offered at the USOP, even though 
the Office has been in operation for more than five 
years. 
(2) Plans for providing consular and visa serv-
ices at the USOP, including conditions required be-
fore such services would be provided and the planned 
timing for providing such services. 
(3) An explanation of why consular and visa 
services will not be offered at the USOP by January 
1, 2007, if such services are not planned to be offered 
by such date. 
(4) The number of residents of Kosova who apply 
for their visas outside of Kosova for each calendar 
year from 2000–2005. 
SEC. 1020. DEMOCRACY IN PAKISTAN. 
Not later than December 31 in each of fiscal years 
2006 and 2007, the President shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a report that contains a de-
scription of the extent to which, over the preceding 12-
month period, the Government of Pakistan has restored a
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fully functional democracy in Pakistan in which free, fair, 
and transparent elections are held. 
SEC. 1021. STATUS OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF LEBANON. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that—
(1) all parties in the Middle East and inter-
nationally should exert every effort to implement in 
its entirety the provisions of United Nations Security 
Council Resolution 1559 (2004), which, among other 
things—
(A) calls for ‘‘strict respect’’ for Lebanon’s 
sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity, and po-
litical independence ‘‘under the sole and exclu-
sive authority of the Government of Lebanon 
throughout Lebanon’’; 
(B) calls upon all remaining foreign forces 
to withdraw from Lebanon; 
(C) calls for the ‘‘disbanding and disar-
mament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese mili-
tias’’; and 
(D) supports the extension of the control of 
the Government of Lebanon over all Lebanese 
territory; 
(2) in accordance with United Nations Security 
Council Resolution 1559, all militias in Lebanon, in-
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cluding Hizballah, should be disbanded and disarmed 
at the earliest possible opportunity, and the armed 
forces of Lebanon should take full control of all of 
Lebanon’s territory and borders; 
(3) the Government of Lebanon is responsible for 
the disbanding and disarming of the militias, includ-
ing Hizballah, and preventing the flow of armaments 
and other military equipment to the militias, includ-
ing Hizballah, from Syria, Iran, and other external 
sources; 
(4) the Government of the United States should 
closely monitor progress toward full implementation 
of all aspects of United Nations Security Council Res-
olution 1559, particularly the matters described in 
subparagraphs (A) through (D) of paragraph (1); 
(5) the Government of the United States should 
closely monitor the Government of Lebanon’s efforts to 
stanch the flow of armaments and other military 
equipment to Hizballah and other militias from exter-
nal sources, such as Syria and Iran; 
(6) the United States and its allies should con-
sider providing training and other assistance to the 
armed forces of Lebanon to enhance their ability to 
disarm Hizballah and other militias and stanch the 
flow of arms to Hizballah and other militias; and
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(7) United States assistance provided to Lebanon 
after the date of the enactment of this Act may be af-
fected if Lebanon does not make every effort to disarm 
militias, including Hizballah, and to deny them re-
armament. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, 
the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a report that describes and evalu-
ates—
(1) the extent to which armed militias continue 
to operate in Lebanon and the progress of the Govern-
ment of Lebanon to disband and disarm such mili-
tias; 
(2) the extent to which the Government of Leb-
anon is committed to disbanding and disarming 
Hizballah and other militias and stanching the flow 
of arms to Hizballah and other militias; 
(3) the progress of the armed forces of Lebanon 
to deploy to and take full control of all of Lebanon’s 
borders; 
(4) the extent to which countries in the region 
attempt to direct arms to Lebanon-based militias or 
allow their territory to be traversed for this purpose
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and the extent to which these armament efforts suc-
ceed; 
(5) the routes and means used by external 
sources attempting to supply arms to the Lebanon-
based militias the countries that are involved in these 
efforts; 
(6) the efforts of the United States and its allies 
to facilitate the process of disbanding and disarming 
Lebanon-based militias and stanching the flow of 
weapons to such militias; and 
(7) any recommendations for legislation to sup-
port the disbanding and disarming of Lebanon-based 
militias. 
(c) FORM.—The report required by subsection (b) shall 
be submitted in unclassified form and may contain a classi-
fied annex if necessary. 
(d) CERTIFICATION.—The requirement to submit a re-
port under subsection (b) shall no longer apply if the Sec-
retary certifies to the appropriate congressional committees 
that all Lebanon-based militias have been disbanded and 
disarmed and the armed forces of Lebanon are deployed to 
and in full control of Lebanon’s borders.
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SEC. 1022. ACTIVITIES OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST OR-
GANIZATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE 
CARIBBEAN. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that—
(1) activities in Latin America and the Carib-
bean by international terrorist organizations and 
their affiliates and supporters represent a direct 
threat to the national security of the United States 
and hemispheric stability; 
(2) international terrorist organizations, such as 
Hezbollah and Hamas, have profited and taken ad-
vantage of the dearth or weakened state of the rule of 
law in many Latin American and Caribbean coun-
tries to further their own aims; and 
(3) the United States should work cooperatively 
with countries of Latin America and the Caribbean 
to expose and prevent such activities. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, and not later than June 30 
of the year thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the 
activities of international terrorist organizations in Latin 
America and the Caribbean. The report shall include the 
following:
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(1) An assessment of the membership, stated in-
tentions, recruitment, and terrorist fundraising capa-
bilities of each international terrorist organization 
operating in Latin America and the Caribbean. 
(2) An assessment of the relationship of each 
such international terrorist organization with other 
criminal enterprises or terrorist organizations for 
fundraising and other criminal purposes. 
(3) An assessment of the activities of each such 
international terrorist organization. 
(c) FORM.—The report required by subsection (b) shall 
be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classi-
fied annex. 
SEC. 1023. ANALYSIS OF EMPLOYING WEAPONS SCIENTISTS 
FROM 
THE 
FORMER 
SOVIET 
UNION 
IN 
PROJECT BIOSHIELD. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than November 1, 2006, the 
Secretary of State, after consultation with the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a report containing an 
analysis of—
(1) the scientific and technological contributions 
that scientists formerly employed in the former Soviet 
Union in the field of biological warfare could make
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to the research and development of biomedical coun-
termeasures; 
(2) the practical alternative methods through 
which the services of such scientists could be employed 
so as to facilitate the application of the knowledge 
and experience of such scientists to such research and 
development; 
(3) the cost-effectiveness of those methods of em-
ploying the services of such scientists; and 
(4) the desirability and national security impli-
cations of providing employment opportunities for 
such scientists in the field of research and develop-
ment of biomedical countermeasures for purposes of 
biological weapons nonproliferation. 
(b) RECOMMENDATIONS.—Each Secretary shall also 
include in the report required under subsection (a) any rec-
ommendations of each for appropriate legislation to address 
the issues analyzed in the report. 
(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘biomedical 
countermeasures’’ means a drug (as such term is defined 
in section 201(g)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos-
metic Act (21 U.S.C. 321(g)(1))), biological product (as 
such term is defined in section 351(i) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262(i))), or device (as such term is
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defined in section 201(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321(h))) that is used—
(1) in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, 
or prevention of harm from any biological, chemical, 
radiological, or nuclear agent that may cause a pub-
lic health emergency affecting national security; or 
(2) in diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or 
prevention of harm from a condition that may result 
in adverse health consequences or death. 
SEC. 1024. EXTRADITION OF VIOLENT CRIMINALS FROM 
MEXICO TO THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Mexico is unable to extradite criminals who 
face life sentences without the possibility of parole be-
cause of a 2001 decision of the Mexican Supreme 
Court. 
(2) As a result of this ruling, Mexico is unable 
to extradite to the United States numerous suspects 
wanted for violent crimes committed in the United 
States unless the United States assures Mexico that 
these criminals will not face life imprisonment with-
out the possibility of parole. 
(3) The attorneys general from all 50 States have 
asked the Government of the United States to con-
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tinue to address this extradition issue with the Gov-
ernment of Mexico. 
(4) The Government of the United States and the 
Government of Mexico have experienced positive co-
operation on numerous matters relevant to their bilat-
eral relationship, including increased cooperation on 
extraditions. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that the Government of the United States should encourage 
the Government of Mexico to continue to work closely with 
the Mexican Supreme Court to urge the Court to re-visit 
its October 2001 ruling so that the possibility of life impris-
onment without parole will not have an effect on the timely 
extradition of criminal suspects from Mexico to the United 
States. 
(c) REPORTS.—
(1) ANNUAL NUMBER AND STATUS OF FORMAL 
EXTRADITION REQUESTS MADE TO MEXICO BY THE 
UNITED STATES.—Not later than six months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act and annually there-
after, the Secretary of State shall submit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a report that in-
cludes—
(A) the number of formal requests made to 
the Government of Mexico by the Government of
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the United States for the extradition of Mexican 
nationals suspected of or convicted in abstentia 
for crimes committed in the United States in the 
preceding fiscal year, the names of such nation-
als, the crimes of which each such national is 
suspected or has been convicted in abstentia, a 
detailed disposition of the status of each such ex-
tradition request, and the progress that has been 
made with respect to each such extradition re-
quest in the preceding fiscal year; and 
(B) the number of such nationals who Mex-
ico has extradited to the United States in re-
sponse to formal extradition requests for such na-
tionals in the preceding fiscal year. 
(2) AGGREGATE NUMBER AND STATUS OF FOR-
MAL EXTRADITION REQUESTS MADE TO MEXICO BY 
THE
UNITED
STATES.—Not later than six months 
after the date of the enactment of this Act and annu-
ally thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report 
that includes—
(A) the number of formal requests made to 
the Government of Mexico by the Government of 
the United States for the extradition of Mexican 
nationals suspected of or convicted in abstentia
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for crimes committed in the United States since 
the signing of the Extradition treaty, with ap-
pendix, between the United States and Mexico, 
signed at Mexico City on May 4, 1978 (31 UST 
5059), including the names of such nationals, the 
crimes of which each such national is suspected 
or has been convicted in abstentia, a detailed 
disposition of the status of each such extradition 
request, and the progress that has been made 
with respect to each such extradition request 
since such signing; and 
(B) the number of such nationals who Mex-
ico has extradited to the United States in re-
sponse to formal extradition requests for such na-
tionals since the signing of the Extradition trea-
ty, with appendix between the United States and 
Mexico. 
(3) COOPERATION BY THE UNITED STATES WITH 
EXTRADITION
REQUESTS
FROM
MEXICO.—Not later 
than six months after the date of the enactment of this 
Act and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a report that includes—
(A) the number of United States nationals 
who the United States has extradited to Mexico
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in response to formal extradition requests for 
such nationals by Mexico in the preceding fiscal 
year; and 
(B) the number of United States nationals 
who the United States has extradited to Mexico 
in response to formal extradition requests for 
such nationals by Mexico since the signing of the 
Extradition treaty, with appendix between the 
United States and Mexico. 
(d) FORM.—If the Secretary of State determines that 
such is appropriate, the Secretary may submit a report re-
quired under subsection (c) with a classified annex. 
SEC. 1025. ACTIONS OF THE 661 COMMITTEE. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
on United States decisions, actions, communications, and 
deliberations in the 661 Committee of the United Nations 
regarding the issues of overpricing of contracts, kickbacks 
from sales of humanitarian goods, efforts to correct and re-
value the remaining contracts in the post-Saddam Hussein 
regime era, oil smuggling, and trade protocols. The report 
shall examine the process by which the United States made 
its decisions in the 661 Committee, the officials in the 
United States Government involved in these decisions, and
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the names of the officials who made the final decisions. The 
report shall also include information detailing the positions 
of the other members states of the 661 Committee with re-
spect to the issues described in this subsection. 
(b) INCLUSION OF SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS.—The re-
port required under subsection (a) shall contain all sup-
porting documents with respect to the decisions, actions, 
communications, and deliberations referred in such sub-
section. 
(c) FORMAT.—If the Secretary determines that such is 
appropriate, the Secretary may submit the report required 
under subsection (a) with a classified annex. 
(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘661 Com-
mittee’’ means the committee within the United Nations 
that was tasked with administering the United Nations oil 
for food program. 
SEC. 1026. ELIMINATION OF REPORT ON REAL ESTATE 
TRANSACTIONS. 
Section 12 of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926 
(22 U.S.C. 303) is hereby repealed.
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TITLE XI—MISCELLANEOUS 
PROVISIONS 
Subtitle A—General Provisions 
SEC. 1101. STATEMENT OF POLICY RELATING TO DEMOC-
RACY IN IRAN. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Iran is neither free nor democratic. Men and 
women are not treated equally in Iran, women are le-
gally deprived of internationally recognized human 
rights, and religious freedom is not respected under 
the laws of Iran. Undemocratic institutions, such as 
the Guardians Council, thwart the decisions of elected 
leaders. 
(2) The April 2005 report of the Department of 
State states that Iran remained the most active state 
sponsor of terrorism in 2004. 
(3) That report also states that Iran continues to 
provide funding, safe-haven, training, and weapons to 
known terrorist groups, including Hizballah, Hamas, 
the Palestine Islamic Jihad, al-Aqsa Martyrs Bri-
gade, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of 
Palestine, and has harbored senior members of al-
Qaeda. 
(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the United States 
that—
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(1) currently, there is not a free and fully demo-
cratic government in Iran; 
(2) the United States supports transparent, full 
democracy in Iran; 
(3) the United States supports the rights of the 
Iranian people to choose their system of government; 
and 
(4) the United States condemns the brutal treat-
ment, imprisonment, and torture of Iranian civilians 
who express political dissent. 
SEC. 1102. IRANIAN NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Iran remains the world’s leading sponsors of 
international terrorism and is on the Department of 
State’s list of countries that provide support for acts 
of international terrorism. 
(2) Iran has repeatedly called for the destruction 
of Israel, and Iran supports organizations, such as 
Hizballah, Hamas, and the Palestine Islamic Jihad, 
that deny Israel’s right to exist and are responsible 
for terrorist attacks against Israel. 
(3) The Ministry of Defense of the Government 
of Iran confirmed in July 2003 that it had success-
fully conducted the final test of the Shahab-3 missile, 
giving Iran an operational intermediate-range bal-
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listic missile capable of striking both Israel and 
United States troops throughout the Middle East and 
Afghanistan. 
(4) Inspections by the International Atomic En-
ergy Agency (IAEA) in Iran have revealed significant 
undeclared activities, including plutonium reprocess-
ing efforts. 
(5) Plutonium reprocessing is a necessary step in 
a nuclear weapons program that uses plutonium cre-
ated in a reactor. 
(6) Iran continues to assert its right to pursue 
nuclear power and related technology, continues con-
structing a heavy water reactor that is ideal for mak-
ing plutonium for weapons, and has not fully cooper-
ated with the ongoing investigation by the IAEA of 
its nuclear activities. 
(7) The United States has publicly opposed the 
completion of reactors at the Bushehr nuclear power 
plant because the transfer of civilian nuclear tech-
nology and training could help to advance Iran’s nu-
clear weapons program. 
(8) Russia, in spite of strong international con-
cern that Iran intended to use civilian nuclear energy 
plants to develop nuclear weapons, provided Iran 
with support to complete the Bushehr nuclear facility.
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(9) Russia intends to begin supplying the 
Bushehr nuclear facility with fuel in June 2005, and 
the Bushehr nuclear plant is expected to begin oper-
ation at the beginning of 2006. 
(10) The Iranian parliament has ratified a bill 
supporting the construction of 20 new nuclear power 
plants. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that—
(1) Russia’s provision of assistance to Iran on 
the Bushehr nuclear reactor is inconsistent with the 
nonproliferation goals of the United States; 
(2) Iran’s stated plans to construct 20 new nu-
clear facilities and its development of nuclear tech-
nologies, 
coupled 
with 
acknowledged 
and 
unacknowledged ties to terrorist groups, constitute a 
threat to global peace and security; and 
(3) the national security interests of the United 
States will best be served if the United States develops 
and implements a long-term strategy to halt all for-
eign nuclear cooperation with Iran. 
(c) STATEMENT OF CONGRESS.—Congress calls upon 
the leaders of the governments of the G–8 to—
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(1) insist that the Government of Russia termi-
nate all assistance, including fuel shipments, to the 
Bushehr nuclear facility in Iran; and 
(2) condition Russia’s continued membership in 
the G–8 on Russia’s termination of all assistance, in-
cluding fuel shipments, to the Bushehr facility and to 
any other nuclear plants in Iran. 
SEC. 1103. LOCATION OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN 
AFRICA. 
(a) STATEMENT
OF CONGRESS.—Congress declares 
that, for the purpose of maintaining regional balances with 
respect to the location of international organizations and 
institutions in Africa, such organizations or institutions, 
such as the African Development Bank, that move their 
headquarters offices from their original locations for reasons 
of security should return once those security issues have been 
resolved or should relocate to another country in the region 
in which the organization or institution was originally 
headquartered. 
(b) CONSULTATIONS REGARDING RETURN.—The Sec-
retary of State is authorized to begin consultations with ap-
propriate parties to determine the feasibility of returning 
such organizations and institutions to the regions in which 
they were originally headquartered.
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SEC. 1104. BENJAMIN GILMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOLAR-
SHIP PROGRAM. 
Section 305 of the International Academic Oppor-
tunity Act of 2000, (title III of the Microenterprise for Self-
Reliance and International Anti-Corruption Act of 2000) 
(Public Law 106–309; 22 U.S.C. 2462 note) is amended by 
striking ‘‘$1,500,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$4,000,000’’. 
SEC. 1105. PROHIBITION ON COMMEMORATIONS RELATING 
TO LEADERS OF IMPERIAL JAPAN. 
The Department of State, both in Washington and at 
United States diplomatic missions and facilities in foreign 
countries, shall not engage in any activity, including the 
celebration of the recently enacted Showa holiday, which 
may, in any manner, serve to commemorate or be construed 
as serving to commemorate leaders of Imperial Japan who 
were connected to the attack on the United States Fleet at 
Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. 
SEC. 1106. UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING WORLD 
BANK GROUP LOANS TO IRAN. 
(a) UNITED STATES POLICY.—The Secretary of State, 
in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall 
work to secure the support of the governments of countries 
represented on the decisionmaking boards and councils of 
the international financial institutions of the World Bank 
Group to oppose any further activity in Iran by the inter-
national financial institutions of the World Bank Group
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until Iran abandons its program to develop nuclear weap-
ons. 
(b) NOTIFICATION.—Not later than 30 days after the 
Secretary initiates efforts to carry out subsection (a), the 
Secretary shall notify the appropriate congressional com-
mittees of such efforts. 
(c) WORLD BANK GROUP DEFINED.—As used in this 
section, the term ‘‘World Bank Group’’ means the Inter-
national Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the 
International Development Association, the International 
Financial Corporation, and the Multilateral Investment 
Guaranty Agency. 
SEC. 1107. STATEMENT OF POLICY REGARDING SUPPORT 
FOR SECI REGIONAL CENTER FOR COM-
BATING TRANS-BORDER CRIME. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Southeast European Cooperative Initia-
tive (SECI) Regional Center for Combating Trans-
Border Crime, located in Bucharest, Romania, is 
composed of police and customs officers from each of 
the 12 member states of SECI: Albania, Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, 
Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and 
Montenegro and Turkey.
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(2) The SECI Regional Center supports joint 
trans-border crime fighting efforts through the estab-
lishment of task forces, including task forces relating 
to trafficking in human beings, anti-drugs, financial 
and computer crimes, stolen vehicles, anti-smuggling 
and anti-fraud, and terrorism. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the 
United States to continue to support the activities of the 
SECI Regional Center for Combating Trans-border Crime. 
SEC. 1108. STATEMENT OF POLICY URGING TURKEY TO RE-
SPECT THE RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS FREE-
DOMS OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Turkey is scheduled to begin accession nego-
tiations with the European Union on October 3, 
2005. 
(2) In 1993 the European Union defined the 
membership criteria for accession to the European 
Union at the Copenhagen European Council, obli-
gating candidate countries to have achieved certain 
levels of reform, including stability of institutions 
guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, and human 
rights, and respect for and protection of minorities. 
(3) The Government of Turkey refuses to recog-
nize the Ecumenical Patriarch’s international status.
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(4) The Government of Turkey has limited to 
Turkish nationals the candidates available to the 
Holy Synod for selection as the Ecumenical Patriarch 
and has refused to reopen the Theological School at 
Halki, thus impeding training for the clergy. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—Congress—
(1) calls on Turkey to continue to demonstrate 
its willingness to adopt and uphold European stand-
ards for the protection of human rights; 
(2) based on the ideals associated with the Euro-
pean Union and its member states, calls on Turkey 
to eliminate all forms of discrimination, particularly 
those based on race or religion, and immediately—
(A) grant the Ecumenical Patriarch appro-
priate international recognition and ecclesiastic 
succession; 
(B) grant the Ecumenical Patriarchate the 
right to train clergy of all nationalities, not just 
Turkish nationals; and 
(C) respect property rights and human 
rights of the Ecumenical Patriarchate; and 
(3) calls on Turkey to pledge to uphold and safe-
guard religious and human rights without com-
promise.
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SEC. 1109. STATEMENT OF POLICY REGARDING THE MUR-
DER OF UNITED STATES CITIZEN JOHN M. 
ALVIS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) On November 30, 2000, United States citizen 
John M. Alvis was brutally murdered in Baku, Azer-
baijan. 
(2) John M. Alvis was serving his final two 
weeks of a two year full-time commitment to the 
International Republican Institute, a United States 
nongovernmental organization carrying out assistance 
projects for the Government of the United States to 
help promote democracy and strengthen the rule of 
law in Azerbaijan. 
(3) The United States is committed to ensuring 
that the truth of the murder of John M. Alvis is deter-
mined and the individual or individuals who are re-
sponsible for this heinous act are brought to justice. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—Congress—
(1) appreciates the efforts of the Government of 
Azerbaijan to find the individual or individuals who 
are responsible for the murder of United States citizen 
John M. Alvis and urges the Government of Azer-
baijan to continue to make these efforts a high pri-
ority; and
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(2) urges the Secretary of State to continue to 
raise the issue of the murder of United States citizen 
John M. Alvis with the Government of Azerbaijan 
and to make this issue a priority in relations between 
the Government of the United States and the Govern-
ment of Azerbaijan. 
SEC. 1110. STATEMENT OF CONGRESS AND POLICY WITH 
RESPECT TO THE DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF 
WOMEN. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Following the May 16, 2005, decision of the 
Kuwaiti parliament to enfranchise its female citizens, 
Saudi Arabia is now the only country in world that 
restricts the franchise and the right to hold elected of-
fice to men only. 
(2) Only men were allowed to vote and run for 
office in Saudi Arabia’s municipal elections held ear-
lier this year, the first elections of any kind that 
Saudi Arabia has held since 1963. 
(b) STATEMENTS OF CONGRESS.—Congress—
(1) strongly condemns the disenfranchisement of 
women, including restrictions that prevent women 
from holding office; and 
(2) calls on the Government of Saudi Arabia to, 
at the earliest possible time, promulgate a law that
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grants women the right to vote and to run for office 
in all future Saudi elections, whether local, provin-
cial, or national. 
(c) POLICY.—The President is encouraged to take such 
action as the President considers appropriate, including a 
downgrading of diplomatic relations, to encourage countries 
that disenfranchise only women to grant women the rights 
to vote and hold office. 
Subtitle B—Sense of Congress 
Provisions 
SEC. 1111. KOREAN FULBRIGHT PROGRAMS. 
It is the sense of Congress that Fulbright program ac-
tivities for the Republic of Korea (commonly referred to as 
‘‘South Korea’’) should—
(1) include participation by students from 
throughout South Korea, including proportional rep-
resentation from areas outside of Seoul; 
(2) attempt to include Korean students from a 
broad range of educational institutions, including 
schools other than elite universities; 
(3) broaden the Korean student emphasis beyond 
degree-seeking graduate students to include opportuni-
ties for one-year nondegree study at United States 
colleges and universities by pre-doctoral Korean stu-
dents; and
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(4) include a significant number of Korean stu-
dents planning to work or practice in areas other 
than advanced research and university teaching, such 
as in government service, media, law, and business. 
SEC. 1112. UNITED STATES RELATIONS WITH TAIWAN. 
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) it is in the national interests of the United 
States to communicate directly with democratically 
elected and appointed officials of Taiwan, including 
the President of Taiwan, the Vice-President of Tai-
wan, the Foreign Minister of Taiwan, and the De-
fense Minister of Taiwan; 
(2) the Department of State should, in accord-
ance with Public Law 103–416, admit such high level 
officials of Taiwan to the United States to discuss 
issues of mutual concern with United States officials; 
and 
(3) the Department of State should, in coopera-
tion with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan, 
facilitate high level meetings between such high level 
officials of Taiwan and their counterparts in the 
United States. 
SEC. 1113. NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND A. Q. KHAN. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
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(1) Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, former director of 
the A.Q. Khan Research Laboratory in Pakistan and 
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on the Stra-
tegic Programme, had the status of a federal minister 
and established and operated an illegal international 
network which sold nuclear weapons and related tech-
nologies to a variety of countries. 
(2) China provided Dr. Khan with nuclear 
weapons designs, and the illegal international nuclear 
proliferation network established by Dr. Khan may 
have provided other countries with these designs. 
(3) The illegal international nuclear prolifera-
tion network established by Dr. Khan assisted Iran 
with its nuclear program by supplying Iran with 
uranium-enrichment technology, including centrifuge 
equipment and designs. 
(4) The illegal international nuclear prolifera-
tion network established by Dr. Khan assisted North 
Korea with its nuclear weapons program by pro-
viding centrifuge technology, including designs and 
complete centrifuges. 
(5) The illegal international nuclear prolifera-
tion network established by Dr. Khan assisted Libya 
with its nuclear program by providing blueprints of
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centrifuge parts and thousands of assembled cen-
trifuge parts. 
(6) There is concern that the illegal international 
nuclear proliferation network created by Dr. Khan 
may be still in existence and its work still on-going. 
(7) Defense cooperation and technology transfer 
between China and Pakistan have been recently 
strengthened, including the codevelopment and manu-
facturing of a minimum of 400 J–17 ‘‘Thunder’’ 
fighter aircraft, with a minimum of 250 going to 
China. This and other Chinese-Pakistani technology 
sharing provides an expanded basis for further Paki-
stani proliferation of advanced military technology. 
(8) The illegal international nuclear prolifera-
tion network established by Dr. Khan is a threat to 
United States national security. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that the United States—
(1) should continue efforts to—
(A) dismantle the illegal international nu-
clear proliferation network created by Dr. Abdul 
Qadeer Khan; and 
(B) counter, through diplomacy and nego-
tiation, the proliferation of weapons of mass de-
struction from Pakistan to other countries;
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(2) should request and Pakistan should grant ac-
cess to interview Dr. Khan and his top associates to 
determine in greater detail what technology his net-
work provided or received from Iran, North Korea, 
Libya, and China; and 
(3) should take the steps necessary to ensure that 
Pakistan has verifiably halted any cooperation with 
any country in the development of nuclear or missile 
technology, material, or equipment, or any other tech-
nology, material, or equipment that is useful for the 
development of weapons of mass destruction, includ-
ing exports of such technology, material, or equip-
ment. 
SEC. 1114. PALESTINIAN TEXTBOOKS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Since 1993, the United States has provided 
more than $1,400,000,000 to assist the Palestinian 
people, including to assist with the process of 
strengthening the Palestinian educations system. 
(2) Since 1950, the United States has provided 
more than $3,200,000,000 in assistance to United Na-
tions Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which op-
erates schools in camps housing Palestinians.
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(3) The Palestinian Authority has undertaken a 
reform of its textbooks, a process which will be com-
pleted in 2006. 
(4) These new textbooks, while an improvement 
over past texts, fail in many respects to foster atti-
tudes amongst the Palestinian people conducive to 
peace with Israel, including references to the infa-
mous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, failure to ac-
knowledge the State of Israel, and failure to discuss 
Jews in sections dealing with religious tolerance. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that the Secretary of State should express in the strongest 
possible terms United States opposition to the inclusion in 
Palestinian textbooks of materials which foster anti-Semi-
tism and rejection of peace with Israel, and to express the 
unwillingness of the United States to continue to support 
educational programs of the Palestinian Authority, whether 
directly or indirectly, should the Palestinian Authority con-
tinue to include material which does not foster tolerance 
and peace. 
SEC. 1115. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AFFIRMING THE 
HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY OF PERSONS 
WITH DISABILITIES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
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(1) There are more than 600,000,000 people who 
have a disability and more than two-thirds of all per-
sons with disabilities live in developing countries. 
(2) Only two percent of children with disabilities 
in developing countries receive any education or reha-
bilitation. 
(3) A substantial shift has occurred globally from 
an approach of charity toward persons with disabil-
ities to the recognition of the inherent universal 
human rights of persons with disabilities. 
(4) A clearly defined international standard ad-
dressing the rights of persons with disabilities would 
assist developing countries in the creation and imple-
mentation of national laws protecting those rights. 
(5) To better protect and promote the rights of 
persons with disabilities and to establish inter-
national norms, the United Nations General Assembly 
adopted Resolution 56/168 (December 19, 2001) which 
established an ad hoc committee to consider proposals 
for a comprehensive and integral international con-
vention that affirms the human rights and dignity of 
persons with disabilities. 
(6) With the strong commitment and leadership 
of the United States and the vast domestic experience 
of the United States in the advancement of disability
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rights, the world community can benefit from United 
States participation in the drafting of an inter-
national convention that affirms the human rights 
and dignity of persons with disabilities. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that—
(1) the United States should play a leading role 
in the drafting of an international convention that 
affirms the human rights and dignity of persons with 
disabilities and which is consistent with the Constitu-
tion of the United States, the Americans with Disabil-
ities Act of 1990, and other rights enjoyed by United 
States citizens with disabilities; 
(2) for this purpose, the President should author-
ize the Secretary of State to send to the Sixth Session 
of the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on a Com-
prehensive and Integral International Convention on 
the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dig-
nity of Persons with Disabilities to be held in August 
2005 and to subsequent sessions of the Ad Hoc Com-
mittee a United States delegation which includes in-
dividuals with disabilities who are recognized leaders 
in the United States disability rights movement; and 
(3) the United States delegation referred to in 
paragraph (2) should seek the input and advice of the
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Department of State’s Advisory Committee on Per-
sons with Disabilities with respect to matters consid-
ered at the Sixth Session of the United Nations Ad 
Hoc Committee and subsequent sessions. 
SEC. 1116. FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS FOR EAST ASIA AND 
THE PACIFIC. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) From 1949–2003, the Department of State 
awarded 13,176 Fulbright Scholarships to students 
from East Asia and the Pacific, but only 31 went to 
Pacific Island students. 
(2) In 2003–2004, the Department of State 
awarded 315 scholarships to students from East Asia 
and the Pacific, but none were awarded to Pacific Is-
land students. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that the Department of State should conduct a review and 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
regarding the marginalization of Pacific Islands students 
in the awarding of Fulbright Scholarships. 
SEC. 1117. BAKU-TBILISI-CEYHAN ENERGY PIPELINE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) It has been the long-standing policy of the 
United States to support the independence, security,
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and economic development of the newly independent 
states of the Caspian Sea region. 
(2) The growth and stability of the newly inde-
pendent states of the Caspian Sea region will be 
greatly enhanced by the development of their extensive 
oil and natural gas resources and the export of these 
resources unhindered along an east-west energy trans-
portation corridor. 
(3) The establishment of an east-west energy 
transportation corridor would enhance the energy se-
curity of the United States, Turkey, and other United 
States allies by ensuring an unhindered flow of en-
ergy from the Caspian Sea region to world markets. 
(4) The centerpiece of the proposed east-west en-
ergy transportation corridor is the Baku-Tbilisi-
Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which was first endorsed by 
the relevant regional governments in 1998 and which 
will carry one million barrels of Caspian Sea oil per 
day from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Ceyhan, Turkey, via 
a route that passes through Tbilisi, Georgia. 
(5) The BTC pipeline was inaugurated on May 
25, 2005, and Caspian Sea oil exports from the port 
of Ceyhan, Turkey, will begin later this year.
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(6) The BTC pipeline project has received strong 
bipartisan support during the administrations of both 
Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that—
(1) the governments and peoples of Turkey and 
the newly independent states of the Caspian Sea re-
gion should be congratulated for the successful comple-
tion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline; 
(2) the policy of the United States to support the 
independence, security, and economic development of 
the newly independent states of the Caspian Sea re-
gion should be reaffirmed; and 
(3) projects should be encouraged that would fur-
ther develop the east-west energy transportation cor-
ridor between the newly independent states of the Cas-
pian Sea region and Europe and that advance the 
strategic goals of the United States, especially the 
promotion of appropriate multiple routes for the 
transportation to world markets of oil and gas from 
the Caspian Sea region.
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SEC. 1118. LEGISLATION REQUIRING THE FAIR, COM-
PREHENSIVE, 
AND 
NONDISCRIMINATORY 
RESTITUTION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY CON-
FISCATED IN POLAND. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress find the following: 
(1) The protection of and respect for property 
rights is a basic tenet for all democratic governments 
that operate according to the rule of law. 
(2) Private properties were seized and con-
fiscated by the Nazis in occupied Poland or by the 
Communist Polish government after World War II. 
(3) Some post-Communist countries in Europe 
have taken steps toward compensating individuals 
whose property was seized and confiscated by the 
Nazis during World War II and by Communist gov-
ernments after World War II. 
(4) Poland has continuously failed to enact legis-
lation that requires realistically achievable restitution 
or compensation for those individuals who had their 
private property seized and confiscated. 
(5) Although President Aleksander Kwasniewski 
of Poland later exercised his veto power, in March 
2001 the Polish Parliament passed a bill that would 
have provided compensation for seized and confiscated 
property, but only to individuals who were registered 
as Polish citizens as of December 31, 1999, thereby ex-
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cluding all those individuals who emigrated from Po-
land during and after World War II. 
(6) President Kwasniewski met in 2002 with 
congressional leaders of the United States Helsinki 
Commission and stated that he intended to draft a 
new law requiring the restitution of previously seized 
and confiscated private property that would not dis-
criminate based on the residency or citizenship of an 
individual, and which would be ready to take effect 
by the beginning of 2003. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that—
(1) Poland should develop a final and complete 
settlement for those individuals who had their private 
property seized and confiscated by the Nazis during 
World War II or by the Communist Polish govern-
ment after the war; 
(2) restitution should be made in a timely man-
ner if they are to be of any benefit to the many Holo-
caust survivors who are in their eighties or older; and 
(3) the President and the Secretary of State 
should engage, as appropriate—
(A) in an open dialogue with the Govern-
ment of Poland supporting the adoption of legis-
lation requiring the fair, comprehensive, and
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nondiscriminatory restitution of or compensa-
tion for private property that was seized and 
confiscated; and 
(B) in follow-up discussions with the Gov-
ernment of Poland regarding the status and im-
plementation of such legislation. 
SEC. 1119. CHILD LABOR PRACTICES IN THE COCOA SEC-
TORS OF COTE D’IVOIRE AND GHANA. 
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the Government of the Republic of Cote 
d’Ivoire and the Government of the Republic of 
Ghana should be commended for the tangible steps 
they have taken to address the situation of child labor 
in the cocoa sector; 
(2) the Government of Cote d’Ivoire and the Gov-
ernment of Ghana should consider child labor and 
forced labor issues top priorities; 
(3) the chocolate industry signatories to the Sep-
tember 19, 2001, voluntary Protocol for the Growing 
and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their Derivative 
Products in a Manner that Complies with ILO Con-
vention 182 Concerning the Prohibition and Imme-
diate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms 
of Child Labor should meet the sixth and final pillar 
of the Protocol, to ‘‘develop and implement credible,
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mutually-acceptable, voluntary, industry-wide stand-
ards of public certification, consistent with applicable 
federal law, that cocoa beans and their derivative 
products have been grown and/or processed without 
any of the worst forms of child labor’’ by July 1, 
2005; 
(4) the chocolate industry, nongovernmental or-
ganizations, and the Government of Cote d’Ivoire and 
the Government of Ghana should continue their efforts 
in full force beyond July 1, 2005, to develop and im-
plement a system to monitor child labor in the cocoa 
industry of Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana; 
(5) the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking 
in Persons of the Department of State should include 
information on the association between trafficking in 
persons and the cocoa industries of Cote d’Ivoire, 
Ghana, and other cocoa producing regions in the an-
nual trafficking in persons report to Congress; and 
(6) the Department of State should assist the 
Government of Cote d’Ivoire and the Government of 
Ghana in preventing the trafficking of persons into 
the cocoa fields and other industries in West Africa. 
SEC. 1120. CONTRIBUTIONS OF IRAQI KURDS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
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(1) Iraqi Kurdish forces played a unique and 
significant role in the fight to liberate Iraq for all 
Iraqis in 2003. 
(2) Since Iraq’s liberation, Iraqi Kurdish leaders 
have played prominent and constructive roles in the 
drafting and passage of the Transitional Administra-
tive Law and, more generally, in seeking to achieve 
a free, stable, and democratic Iraq. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that—
(1) Iraqi Kurds should be commended for their 
many contributions and sacrifices made in the cause 
of creating a free, stable, and democratic Iraq; and 
(2) the Iraqi Transitional Government and the 
Kurdistan Regional Government are expected to ad-
here to the highest standards of democratic govern-
ance, including through enforcement of full equality 
and rights for all religious and ethnic minorities, 
such as Assyrians and Turcomans. 
SEC. 1121. PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE. 
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the Secretary of State should strive to expand 
and strengthen the Proliferation Security Initiative 
announced on May 31, 2003, by President George W. 
Bush, placing particular emphasis on including coun-
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tries outside of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
tion (NATO); and 
(2) the United States should seek an inter-
national instrument, in the form of a United Nations 
Security Council resolution, multilateral treaty, or 
other agreement, to enhance international cooperation 
with the Proliferation Security Initiative regarding 
the interdiction, seizure, and impoundment in inter-
national waters and airspace of illicit shipments of 
weapons of mass destruction and their delivery sys-
tems and of related materials, equipment, and tech-
nology. 
SEC. 1122. SECURITY OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND MATE-
RIALS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the President should 
seek to devise and implement standards to improve the secu-
rity of nuclear weapons and materials by— 
(1) establishing with other willing nations a set 
of guidelines containing performance-based standards 
for the security of nuclear weapons and materials; 
(2) negotiating with those nations agreements to 
adopt guidelines containing performance-based stand-
ards and implement appropriate verification meas-
ures to assure ongoing compliance;
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(3) coordinating with those nations and the 
International Atomic Energy Agency to strongly en-
courage other nations to adopt and verifiably imple-
ment the standards; and 
(4) encouraging all nations to work with the 
International Atomic Energy Agency to complete the 
negotiation, adoption, and implementation of its pro-
posed series of documents related to the security of 
nuclear materials. 
SEC. 1123. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND GENO-
CIDE IN DARFUR, SUDAN. 
Based upon the adoption of resolutions on July 22, 
2004, by both the House of Representatives and the Senate 
and the declaration on September 9, 2004, by former Sec-
retary of State Colin Powell that the atrocities unfolding 
in Darfur, Sudan, are genocide, it is the sense of Congress 
that, notwithstanding the American Servicemembers’ Pro-
tection Act of 2002 (title II of the 2002 Supplemental Ap-
propriations Act for Further Recovery From and Response 
To Terrorist Attacks on the United States; Public Law 107–
206), the United States should render assistance to the ef-
forts of the International Criminal Court to bring to justice 
persons accused of genocide, war crimes, or crimes against 
humanity in Darfur, Sudan, provided that legally binding 
assurances have been received from the United Nations Se-
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curity Council or the International Criminal Court that no 
current or former United States Government official, em-
ployee (including any contractor), member of the United 
States Armed Forces, or United States national will be sub-
ject to prosecution by the International Criminal Court in 
connection with those efforts. 
SEC. 1124. ACTION AGAINST AL-MANAR TELEVISION. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that—
(1) in 1996, the Secretary of State designated 
Hizballah as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) 
under section 219 of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act; 
(2) al-Manar television is owned and controlled 
by Hizballah and acts on behalf of Hizballah, as 
openly acknowledged by Hizballah leader Hasan 
Nasrallah; 
(3) al-Manar’s programming, in accordance with 
Hizballah’s policy, openly promotes hatred of and 
graphically glorifies and incites violence, including 
suicide bombings, against Americans, Israelis, and 
Jews; 
(4) in December 2004, the Secretary of State 
placed al-Manar on its Terrorist Exclusion List, im-
mediately after which the sole satellite company that
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broadcast al-Manar in North America pulled al-
Manar off the air; 
(5) in recent months, several European Union 
(EU) countries and EU-based satellite companies 
have taken actions that severely limit al-Manar’s 
broadcasting reach in Europe; and 
(6) al-Manar continues to broadcast to all of the 
Arab world, much of non-Arab Asia, most of Central 
and South America, and parts of Europe, with the co-
operation of companies headquartered in Europe and 
the Arab world. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that—
(1) all countries that host satellite companies 
that broadcast al-Manar, on whose territory al-Manar 
may be viewed over media subject to government regu-
lation, or where advertising or other financial sup-
port for al-Manar originates, should take action, by 
the strongest and most comprehensive appropriate 
means available, to suppress al-Manar’s terroristic 
programming; and 
(2) the Arab States Broadcasting Union, which 
is part of the Arab League, should revoke al-Manar’s 
membership status because of al-Manar’s promotion of 
hatred and incitement to violence, including suicide
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bombings, directed toward Americans, Israelis, and 
Jews. 
SEC. 1125. STABILITY AND SECURITY IN IRAQ. 
It is the sense of Congress that the President should 
transmit to the appropriate congressional committees as 
soon as possible after the date of the enactment of this Act 
the plan to provide for a stable and secure government of 
Iraq and an Iraqi military and police force that will allow 
the United States military presence in Iraq to be dimin-
ished. 
SEC. 1126. PROPERTY EXPROPRIATED BY THE GOVERN-
MENT OF ETHIOPIA. 
It is the sense of the Congress that the Government of 
Ethiopia should account for, compensate for, or return to 
United States citizens, and entities not less than 50 percent 
beneficially owned by United States citizens, property of 
such citizens and entities that has been nationalized, expro-
priated, or otherwise seized by the Government of Ethiopia 
before the date of the enactment of this Act in contravention 
of international law.
Union Calendar No. 105
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2601
[Report No. 109–168] 
A BILL 
To authorize appropriations for the Department of 
State for fiscal years 2006 and 2007, and for 
other purposes. 
JULY 13, 2005
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed