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‘‘(G) Providing for the development of training pro-
grams that will prepare substantial numbers of minority
employees for skilled jobs, including the expansion of exist-
ing programs and the creation of new programs to train,
upgrade, and improve the skills of minority employees.
‘‘(H) Establishing procedures to assess, identify, and
actively recruit minority employees with the potential for
further advancement.
‘‘(I) Providing for the appointment of a senior manage-
ment staff member to be responsible for the employment
efforts of the entity and, within a reasonable period of
time, the implementation of the principles described in
subparagraphs (A) through (H).’’.
SEC. 1616. DEOBLIGATION OF CERTAIN UNEXPENDED ECONOMIC
ASSISTANCE FUNDS.
Chapter 3 of part III of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
(22 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘SEC. 668. DEOBLIGATION OF CERTAIN UNEXPENDED ECONOMIC
ASSISTANCE FUNDS.
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT TO DEOBLIGATE.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection (b)
of this section and in paragraphs (1) and (3) of section 617(a)
of this Act, at the beginning of each fiscal year the President
shall deobligate and return to the Treasury, any funds described
in paragraph (2) that, as of the end of the preceding fiscal
year, have been obligated for a project or activity for a period
of more than 3 years but have not been expended.
‘‘(2) FUNDS.—Paragraph (1) applies to funds made available
for—
‘‘(A) assistance under chapter 1 of part I of this Act
(relating to development assistance), chapter 10 of part
I of this Act (relating to the Development Fund for Africa),
or chapter 4 of part II of this Act (relating to the economic
support fund);
‘‘(B) assistance under the ‘Multilateral Assistance Ini-
tiative for the Philippines’;
‘‘(C) assistance under the Support for East European
Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989; and
‘‘(D) economic assistance for the independent states
of the former Soviet Union under this Act or under any
other Act authorizing economic assistance for such
independent states.
‘‘(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The President, on a case-by-case basis, may
waive the requirement of subsection (a)(1) if the President deter-
mines, and reports to the appropriate congressional committees,
that—
‘‘(1) the funds are being used for a construction project
that requires more than 3 years to complete; or
‘‘(2) the funds have not been expended because of unfore-
seen circumstances, and those circumstances could not have
been reasonably foreseen.
‘‘(c) COMMENTS BY INSPECTOR GENERAL.—As soon as possible
after the submission of a report pursuant to subsection (b), the
Inspector General of the agency primarily responsible for admin-
istering part I of this Act shall submit to the appropriate congres-
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sional committees such comments as the Inspector General consid-
ers appropriate with regard to the determination described in that
report.
‘‘(d) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.—As used in
this section, the term ‘appropriate congressional committees’ means
the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee
on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate.’’.
SEC. 
1617. 
LIMITATION 
ON 
ASSISTANCE 
TO 
COUNTRIES 
THAT
RESTRICT THE TRANSPORT OR DELIVERY OF UNITED
STATES HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The United States Federal budget deficit and spending
constraints require the maximum efficiency in the usage of
United States foreign assistance.
(2) The delivery of humanitarian assistance to people in
need is consistent with the fundamental values of our Nation
and is an important component of United States foreign policy.
(3) As a matter of principle and in furtherance of fiscal
prudence, the United States should seek to promote the delivery
of humanitarian assistance to people in need in a manner
that is both timely and cost effective.
(4) Recipients of United States assistance should not hinder
or delay the transport or delivery of United States humani-
tarian assistance to other countries.
(b) PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE.—Section 620 of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2370), as amended by this Act,
is further amended by inserting after subsection (v) (as added
by this Act) the following new subsection:
‘‘(w)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, United
States assistance may not be made available for any country whose
government prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly,
the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance.
‘‘(2) The prohibition on United States assistance contained in
paragraph (1) shall not apply if the President determines and
notifies the Congress in writing that providing such assistance
to a country is in the national security interest of the United
States.
‘‘(3) A suspension or termination of United States assistance
for any country under paragraph (1) shall cease to be effective
when the President certifies in writing to the Speaker of the House
of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate that such country is no longer prohibiting or otherwise
restricting, either directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery
of United States humanitarian assistance.
‘‘(4)(A) At the time of the annual budget submission to Con-
gress, the President shall submit a report to the Congress describing
any information available to the President concerning prohibitions
or restrictions, direct or indirect, on the transport or delivery of
United States humanitarian assistance by the government of any
country receiving or eligible to receive United States foreign assist-
ance during the current or preceding fiscal year.
‘‘(B) The President shall include in the report required by
subparagraph (A) a statement as to whether the prohibition in
paragraph (1) is being applied to each country for which the Presi-
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dent has information available to him concerning prohibitions or
restrictions, direct or indirect, on the transport or delivery of United
States humanitarian assistance.
‘‘(5) As used in this subsection, the term ‘United States assist-
ance’ has the same meaning given that term in section 481(e)(4)
of this Act.’’.
TITLE XVII—CONGRESSIONAL
STATEMENTS
SEC. 1701. THE LAOGAI SYSTEM OF POLITICAL PRISONS.
It is the sense of the Congress that the President should—
(1) publicly condemn the continued existence of the Chinese
gulag, known as the Laogai, and call upon the Government
of the People’s Republic of China to dismantle it and release
all of its political prisoners; and
(2) instruct the appropriate diplomatic representatives of
the United States to cause a resolution condemning the Laogai
to be put before the United Nations Human Rights Commission
and work for its passage.
SEC. 1702. DECLARATION OF CONGRESS REGARDING UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY TOWARD CHINA.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) According to the 1994 State Department Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices, there continue to be ‘‘wide-
spread and well-documented human rights abuses in China,
in violation of internationally accepted norms . . . (including)
arbitrary and lengthy incommunicado detention, torture, and
mistreatment of prisoners. The regime continued severe restric-
tions on freedoms of speech, press assembly and association,
and tightened controls on the exercise of these rights during
1994. Serious human rights abuses persisted in Tibet and other
areas populated by ethnic minorities’’.
(2) The President, in announcing his decision on Most
Favored Nation trading status for China in May 1994 stated
that, ‘‘China continues to commit very serious human rights
abuses. Even as we engage the Chinese on military, political,
and economic issues, we intend to stay engaged with those
in China who suffer from human rights abuses. The United
States must remain a champion of their liberties’’.
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the Congress that
the President should take the following actions:
(1) Decline the invitation to visit China until and unless
there is dramatic overall progress on human rights in China
and Tibet and communicate to the Government of China that
such a visit cannot take place without such progress. Indica-
tions of overall progress would include the release of hundreds
of political, religious, and labor activists; an agreement to allow
unhindered confidential access to prisoners by international
humanitarian agencies; enactment of major legal reforms such
as an end to all restrictions on the exercise of freedom of
religion, revocation of the 1993 state security law, and the
abolition of all so-called ‘‘counter-revolutionary’’ crimes; an end
to forced abortion, forced sterilization, and the provision by
government facilities of human fetal remains for consumption
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as food; and a decision to allow unrestricted access to Tibet
by foreign media and international human rights monitors.
(2) Seek to develop an agreement on a multilateral strategy
to promote human rights in China. Such an agreement should
include efforts to encourage greater cooperation by the Govern-
ment of China with the human rights rapporteurs and working
groups of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, as
well as bilateral and multilateral initiatives to secure the
unconditional release of imprisoned peaceful pro-democracy
advocates such as Wei Jingsheng.
(3) Extend an invitation to the Dalai Lama to visit
Washington, District of Columbia, in 1996.
(c) UNITED
STATES
GOVERNMENT
HUMAN
RIGHTS
POLICY
TOWARD CHINA.—It shall be the policy of the United States Govern-
ment to continue to promote internationally recognized human
rights and worker rights in China and Tibet. The President shall
submit the following reports on the formulation and implementation
of United States human rights policy toward China and the results
of that policy to the appropriate congressional committees:
(1) Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment
of this Act, the President shall report on the status of the
‘‘new United States Human Rights Policy for China’’ announced
by the President on May 26, 1994, including an assessment
of the implementation and effectiveness of the policy in bringing
about human rights improvements in China and Tibet, with
reference to the following specific initiatives announced on that
date:
(A) High-level dialogue on human rights.
(B) Voluntary principles in the area of human rights
for United States businesses operating in China.
(C) Increased contact with and support for groups and
individuals in China promoting law reform and human
rights.
(D) Increased exchanges to support human rights law
reform in China.
(E) The practice of all United States officials who visit
China to meet with the broadest possible spectrum of Chi-
nese citizens.
(F) Increased efforts to press United States views on
human rights in China at the United Nations, the United
Nations Human Rights Commission, and other inter-
national organizations.
(G) A plan of international actions to address Tibet’s
human rights problems and to promote substantive discus-
sions between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese Govern-
ment.
(H) An information strategy for promoting human
rights by expanding Chinese and Tibetan language broad-
casts on the Voice of America and establishing Radio Free
Asia.
(I) Encouraging the Chinese Government to permit
international human rights groups to operate in and visit
China.
The report required by this paragraph shall also assess the
progress, if any, of the People’s Republic of China toward ending
forced abortion, forced sterilization, and other coercive popu-
lation control practices.