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‘‘national territory’’ as used in Article VI and Article IX
of the ABM Treaty.
(2) PRESERVATION OF UNITED STATES THEATER BALLISTIC
MISSILE DEFENSE POTENTIAL.—It is the sense of the Congress
that no ABM/TMD demarcation agreement that would reduce
the capabilities of United States theater missile defense sys-
tems, or the numbers or deployment patterns of such systems,
will be approved for entry into force with respect to the United
States.
(d) REPORT ON COOPERATIVE PROJECTS WITH RUSSIA.—Not later
than January 1, 1999, and January 1, 2000, the President shall
submit to the Committees on International Relations, National
Security, and Appropriations of the House of Representatives and
the Committees on Foreign Relations, Armed Services, and Appro-
priations of the Senate a report on cooperative projects with Russia
in the area of ballistic missile defense, including in the area of
early warning. Each such report shall include the following:
(1) COOPERATIVE PROJECTS.—A description of all coopera-
tive projects conducted in the area of early warning and ballistic
missile defense during the preceding fiscal year and the fiscal
year during which the report is submitted.
(2) FUNDING.—A description of the funding for such projects
during the preceding fiscal year and the year during which
the report is submitted and the proposed funding for such
projects for the next fiscal year.
(3) STATUS OF DIALOGUE OR DISCUSSIONS.—A description
of the status of any dialogue or discussions conducted during
the preceding fiscal year between the United States and Russia
aimed at exploring the potential for mutual accommodation
of outstanding issues between the two nations on matters relat-
ing to ballistic missile defense and the ABM Treaty, including
the possibility of developing a strategic relationship not based
on mutual nuclear threats.
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) 
ABM/TMD 
DEMARCATION
AGREEMENT.—The 
term
‘‘ABM/TMD demarcation agreement’’ means any agreement
that establishes a demarcation between theater ballistic missile
defense systems and strategic antiballistic missile defense sys-
tems for purposes of the ABM Treaty.
(2) ABM TREATY.—The term ‘‘ABM Treaty’’ means the
Treaty Between the United States of American and the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic
Missile Systems, signed at Moscow on May 26, 1972 (23 UST
3435), and includes the Protocols to that Treaty, signed at
Moscow on July 3, 1974 (27 UST 1645).
TITLE XVIII—OTHER FOREIGN POLICY
PROVISIONS
SEC. 1801. REPORTS ON CLAIMS BY UNITED STATES FIRMS AGAINST
THE GOVERNMENT OF SAUDI ARABIA.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act and every 180 days thereafter, the Sec-
retary of State, after consultation with the Secretary of Defense
and the Secretary of Commerce, shall submit a report to the appro-
priate congressional committees on specific actions taken by the
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Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the Depart-
ment of Commerce toward progress in resolving the commercial
disputes between United States firms and the Government of Saudi
Arabia that are described in the June 30, 1993, report by the
Secretary of Defense pursuant to section 9140(c) of the Department
of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993 (Public Law 102–396), includ-
ing the additional claims noticed by the Department of Commerce
on page 2 of that report.
(b) TERMINATION.—Subsection (a) shall cease to have effect
on the earlier of—
(1) the date of submission of the third report under that
subsection; or
(2) the date that the Secretary of State, after consultation
with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce,
certifies in writing to the appropriate congressional committees
that the commercial disputes referred to in subsection (a) have
been resolved satisfactorily.
SEC. 1802. REPORTS ON DETERMINATIONS UNDER TITLE IV OF THE
LIBERTAD ACT.
(a) REPORTS REQUIRED.—Not later than 30 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act and every 3 months thereafter during
the period ending September 30, 1999, the Secretary of State shall
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on
the implementation of section 401 of the Cuban Liberty and Demo-
cratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6091). Each
report shall include—
(1) an unclassified list, by economic sector, of the number
of entities then under review pursuant to that section;
(2) an unclassified list of all entities and a classified list
of all individuals that the Secretary of State has determined
to be subject to that section;
(3) an unclassified list of all entities and a classified list
of all individuals that the Secretary of State has determined
are no longer subject to that section;
(4) an explanation of the status of the review underway
for the cases referred to in paragraph (1); and
(5) an unclassified explanation of each determination of
the Secretary of State under section 401(a) of that Act and
each finding of the Secretary under section 401(c) of that Act—
(A) since the date of the enactment of this Act, in
the case of the first report under this subsection; and
(B) in the preceding 3-month period, in the case of
each subsequent report.
(b) PROTECTION
OF IDENTITY
OF CONCERNED ENTITIES.—In
preparing the report under subsection (a), the names of entities
shall not be identified under paragraph (1) or (4).
SEC. 1803. REPORT ON COMPLIANCE WITH THE HAGUE CONVENTION
ON INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning 6 months after the date of the
enactment of this Act and every 12 months thereafter during the
period ending September 30, 1999, the Secretary of State shall
submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees on
the compliance with the provisions of the Convention on the Civil
Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague on
October 25, 1980, by the signatory countries of the Convention.
Each such report shall include the following information:
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(1) The number of applications for the return of children
submitted by United States citizens to the Central Authority
for the United States that remain unresolved more than 18
months after the date of filing.
(2) A list of the countries to which children in unresolved
applications described in paragraph (1) are alleged to have
been abducted.
(3) A list of the countries that have demonstrated a pattern
of noncompliance with the obligations of the Convention with
respect to applications for the return of children submitted
by United States citizens to the Central Authority for the
United States.
(4) Detailed information on each unresolved case described
in paragraph (1) and on actions taken by the Department
of State to resolve each such case.
(5) Information on efforts by the Department of State to
encourage other countries to become signatories of the Conven-
tion.
(b) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘Central Authority
for the United States’’ has the meaning given the term in Article
6 of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child
Abduction, done at The Hague on October 25, 1980.
SEC. 1804. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS RELATING TO RECOGNITION OF
THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE BY THE GOVERNMENT
OF TURKEY.
It is the sense of the Congress that the United States should
use its influence with the Government of Turkey to suggest that
the Government of Turkey—
(1) recognize the Ecumenical Patriarchate and its nonpoliti-
cal, religious mission;
(2) ensure the continued maintenance of the institution’s
physical security needs, as provided for under Turkish and
international law, including the Treaty of Lausanne, the 1968
Protocol, the Helsinki Final Act (1975), and the Charter of
Paris;
(3) provide for the proper protection and safety of the
Ecumenical Patriarch and Patriarchate personnel; and
(4) reopen the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Halki Patriarchal
School of Theology.
SEC. 1805. REPORT ON RELATIONS WITH VIETNAM.
In order to provide Congress with the necessary information
by which to evaluate the relationship between the United States
and Vietnam, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the
appropriate congressional committees, not later than 90 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act and every 180 days thereafter
during the period ending September 30, 1999, on the extent to
which—
(1) the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
is cooperating with the United States in providing the fullest
possible accounting of all unresolved cases of prisoners of war
(POWs) or persons missing-in-action (MIAs) through the provi-
sion of records and the unilateral and joint recovery and repatri-
ation of American remains;
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(2) the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
has made progress toward the release of all political and reli-
gious prisoners, including Catholic, Protestant, and Buddhist
clergy;
(3) the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
is cooperating with requests by the United States to obtain
full and free access to persons of humanitarian interest to
the United States for interviews under the Orderly Departure
(ODP) and Resettlement Opportunities for Vietnamese Refugees
(ROVR) programs, and in providing exit visas for such persons;
(4) the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
has taken vigorous action to end extortion, bribery, and other
corrupt practices in connection with such exit visas; and
(5) the Government of the United States is making vigorous
efforts to interview and resettle former reeducation camp vic-
tims, their immediate families including unmarried sons and
daughters, former United States Government employees, and
other persons eligible for the ODP program, and to give such
persons the full benefit of all applicable United States laws
including sections 599D and 599E of the Foreign Operations,
Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act
of 1990 (Public Law 101–167).
SEC. 1806. REPORTS AND POLICY CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLA-
TIONS IN LAOS.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Sate shall submit a report to the appro-
priate congressional committees on the allegations of persecution
and abuse of the Hmong and Laotian refugees who have returned
to Laos. The report shall include the following:
(1) A full investigation, including full documentation of
individual cases of persecution, of the Lao Government’s treat-
ment of Hmong and Laotian refugees who have returned to
Laos.
(2) The steps the Department of State will take to continue
to monitor any systematic human rights violations by the
Government of Laos.
(3) The actions which the Department of State will take
to seek to ensure the cessation of human rights violations.
SEC. 1807. REPORT ON AN ALLIANCE AGAINST NARCOTICS TRAFFICK-
ING IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
(a) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS ON DISCUSSIONS FOR ALLIANCE.—
(1) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the Con-
gress that the President should discuss with the democratically-
elected governments of the Western Hemisphere, the prospect
of forming a multilateral alliance to address problems relating
to international drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere.
(2) CONSULTATIONS.—In the consultations on the prospect
of forming an alliance described in paragraph (1), the President
should seek the input of such governments on the possibility
of forming one or more structures within the alliance—
(A) to develop a regional, multilateral strategy to
address the threat posed to nations in the Western Hemi-
sphere by drug trafficking; and
(B) to establish a new mechanism for improving multi-
lateral coordination of drug interdiction and drug-related
law enforcement activities in the Western Hemisphere.