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(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Department of State should conduct a re-
view and submit to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a report regarding the marginalization of Pacific Is-
lands students in the awarding of Fulbright Scholarships. 
SEC. 1427. 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, 
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 exten-
sive oil and natural gas resources and the export of 
these resources unhindered along an east-west en-
ergy transportation 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 energy from the Caspian Sea region to world mar-
kets. 
(4) The centerpiece of the proposed east-west 
energy transportation corridor is the Baku-Tbilisi-
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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, Tur-
key, 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. 
(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 Con-
gress 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 com-
pletion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline; 
(2) the policy of the United States to support 
the independence, security, and economic develop-
ment of the newly independent states of the Caspian 
Sea region should be reaffirmed; and 
(3) projects should be encouraged that would 
further develop the east-west energy transportation 
corridor between the newly independent states of the 
Caspian Sea region and Europe and that advance
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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. 
SEC. 1428. 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 govern-
ments 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 leg-
islation that requires realistically achievable restitu-
tion or compensation for those individuals who had 
their private property seized and confiscated.
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(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 individ-
uals who were registered as Polish citizens as of De-
cember 31, 1999, thereby excluding all those individ-
uals who emigrated from Poland 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 Con-
gress that— 
(1) Poland should develop a final and complete 
settlement for those individuals who had their pri-
vate property seized and confiscated by the Nazis 
during World War II or by the Communist Polish 
government after the war;
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(2) restitution should be made in a timely man-
ner if they are to be of any benefit to the many Hol-
ocaust 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 leg-
islation requiring the fair, comprehensive, and 
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. 1429. 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;
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(2) the Government of Cote d’Ivoire and the 
Government of Ghana should consider child labor 
and forced labor issues top priorities; 
(3) the chocolate industry signatories to the 
September 19, 2001, voluntary Protocol for the 
Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their 
Derivative Products in a Manner that Complies with 
ILO Convention 182 Concerning the Prohibition and 
Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst 
Forms of Child Labor should meet the sixth and 
final pillar of the Protocol, to ‘‘develop and imple-
ment credible, mutually-acceptable, voluntary, indus-
try-wide standards 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 implement a system to monitor child labor in 
the cocoa industry of Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana; 
(5) the Office to Monitor and Combat Traf-
ficking in Persons of the Department of State
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should include information on the association be-
tween trafficking in persons and the cocoa industries 
of Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, and other cocoa producing 
regions in the annual 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. 1430. CONTRIBUTIONS OF IRAQI KURDS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(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 lead-
ers have played prominent and constructive roles in 
the drafting and passage of the Transitional Admin-
istrative Law and, more generally, in seeking to 
achieve a free, stable, and democratic Iraq. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress 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
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(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. 1431. PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the Secretary of State should strive to ex-
pand and strengthen the Proliferation Security Ini-
tiative announced on May 31, 2003, by President 
George W. Bush, placing particular emphasis on in-
cluding countries outside of the North Atlantic Trea-
ty Organization (NATO); and 
(2) the United States should seek an inter-
national instrument, in the form of a United Na-
tions Security Council resolution, multilateral treaty, 
or other agreement, to enhance international co-
operation with the Proliferation Security Initiative 
regarding the interdiction, seizure, and impound-
ment in international waters and airspace of illicit 
shipments of weapons of mass destruction and their 
delivery systems and of related materials, equipment, 
and technology.
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SEC. 1432. 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 
security of nuclear weapons and materials by— 
(1) establishing with other willing nations a set 
of guidelines containing performance-based stand-
ards for the security of nuclear weapons and mate-
rials; 
(2) negotiating with those nations agreements 
to adopt guidelines containing performance-based 
standards and implement appropriate verification 
measures to assure ongoing compliance; 
(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. 1433. 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 Sen-
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ate and the declaration on September 9, 2004, by former 
Secretary of State Colin Powell that the atrocities unfold-
ing in Darfur, Sudan, are genocide, it is the sense of Con-
gress 
that, 
notwithstanding 
the 
American 
Servicemembers’ Protection Act of 2002 (title II of the 
2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Re-
covery From and Response To Terrorist Attacks on the 
United States; Public Law 107–206), the United States 
should render assistance to the efforts 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 Security 
Council or the International Criminal Court that no cur-
rent or former United States Government official, em-
ployee (including any contractor), member of the United 
States Armed Forces, or United States national will be 
subject to prosecution by the International Criminal Court 
in connection with those efforts. 
SEC. 1434. 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;
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(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, includ-
ing 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 
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 cooperation of companies headquartered in 
Europe and the Arab world. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that—
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(1) all countries that host satellite companies 
that broadcast al-Manar, on whose territory al- 
Manar may be viewed over media subject to govern-
ment regulation, or where advertising or other finan-
cial support for al-Manar originates, should take ac-
tion, by the strongest and most comprehensive ap-
propriate 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, in-
cluding suicide bombings, directed toward Ameri-
cans, Israelis, and Jews. 
SEC. 1435. 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 
diminished.
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SEC. 1436. 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, prop-
erty of such citizens and entities that has been national-
ized, expropriated, or otherwise seized by the Government 
of Ethiopia before the date of the enactment of this Act 
in contravention of international law. 
SEC. 1437. UNITED STATES-CHINA RELATIONS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the comments by Chinese General Zhu 
Chenghu advocating the use of nuclear weapons 
against the United States are both damaging to 
United States-China relations and a violation of Chi-
na’s commitment to resolve its differences with Tai-
wan peacefully; and 
(2) the Government of China should renounce 
the use of force against Taiwan, disavow General 
Zhu’s statements, and relieve General Zhu from his 
command. 
SEC. 1438. CAPTURE, DETENTION, AND INTERROGATION OF 
TERRORISTS AT GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
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(1) Usama bin Laden declared war on the 
United States in 1996. 
(2) International terrorists, including al Qaida 
and its affiliated terrorists, have repeatedly attacked 
the United States and its coalition partners through-
out the world and have killed and wounded thou-
sands of innocent United States citizens and citizens 
from these coalition partners. 
(3) The United States is exercising its rights to 
self-defense and to protect United States citizens 
both at home and abroad by waging war alongside 
its coalition partners against al Qaida and affiliated 
terrorists. 
(4) International terrorists continue to pose an 
extraordinary threat to the national security and for-
eign policy of the United States and its coalition 
partners. 
(5) International terrorists continue to commit 
and plan terrorist attacks around the world against 
the United States and its coalition partners. 
(6) In order to protect the United States and 
its citizens, the United States must identify terror-
ists and those individuals who support them, disrupt 
their activities, and eliminate their ability to conduct
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or support attacks against the United States, its 
citizens, and its coalition partners. 
(7) Identifying, disrupting, and eliminating ter-
rorist threats against the United States requires ef-
fective gathering, dissemination, and analysis of 
timely intelligence. 
(8) The collection of information from detainees 
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the United States 
has improved the security of the United States and 
its coalition partners and is essential in fighting the 
Global War on Terrorism. 
(9) The loss of interrogation-derived informa-
tion would have a disastrous effect on the United 
States’ intelligence collection and counterterrorism 
efforts and would constitute a damaging reversal in 
the Global War on Terrorism. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the capture, detention, and interrogation of 
international terrorists are essential to the successful 
prosecution of the Global War on Terrorism and to 
the defense of the United States, its citizens, and its 
coalition partners from future terrorist attacks; 
(2) the detention and lawful, humane interroga-
tion by the United States of detainees at Guanta-
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namo Bay, Cuba, is essential to the defense of the 
United States and its coalition partners and to the 
successful prosecution of the Global War on Ter-
rorism; 
(3) the detention facilities and interrogations at 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, plays an essential role in 
the security of the United States and should not be 
closed or ended while the United States is waging 
the Global War of Terrorism. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 20, 2005. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk. 
By GERASIMOS C. VANS, 
Deputy Clerk.
Calendar No. 172 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2601 
AN ACT 
To authorize appropriations for the Department of 
State for fiscal years 2006 and 2007, and for 
other purposes. 
JULY 22, 2005 
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar