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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1453 
To strengthen United States relations with Libya, to facilitate the integration 
of Libya into the international community, and to encourage positive 
change in Libyan society, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 20, 2005 
Mr. LANTOS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on 
Financial Services, Ways and Means, and Government Reform, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To strengthen United States relations with Libya, to facili-
tate the integration of Libya into the international com-
munity, and to encourage positive change in Libyan soci-
ety, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States-Libya 
Relations Act of 2005’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) On December 19, 2003, Libya announced 
that it ‘‘had decided on its own free will to . . . com-
pletely eliminate internationally banned weapons of 
mass destruction’’ and would dismantle all such 
weapons and related weapons production facilities, 
invite international inspectors to Libya to verify that 
the programs had been terminated, and become a 
party to the Convention on the Prohibition of the 
Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of 
Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (signed 
at Paris on January 13, 1993). 
(2) On December 19, 2003, President George 
W. Bush described the Libyan announcement as ‘‘a 
development of great importance in our continuing 
effort to prevent the spread of weapons of mass de-
struction’’ and said that ‘‘leaders who abandon the 
pursuit of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, 
and the means to deliver them, will find an open 
path to better relations with the United States and 
other free nations’’. 
(3) Libya’s decision to abandon weapons of 
mass destruction marks an unprecedented step by a 
country which had sought to acquire such weapons, 
which suggests a model approach for other countries
which in the future may abandon efforts to acquire 
weapons of mass destruction and for United States 
policy toward those countries. 
(4) This decision by Libya also has provided 
vital and otherwise inaccessible information about 
the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the means 
to deliver them by other countries and individuals, 
including Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, and the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China, which has been of immense 
importance in the effort of the United States and 
the international community to limit the prolifera-
tion of nuclear weapons. As such, Libya has made 
a significant contribution to world peace. 
(5) Since December 2003 Libya has not sup-
ported international terrorist organizations and has 
made meaningful contributions to the Global War on 
Terrorism. 
(6) Libya has also shown promising signs of co-
operation in other areas—for example, by facili-
tating the transit through its territory of humani-
tarian assistance for the people of Darfur, Sudan. 
(7) The decision to compensate victims of past 
terrorist violence and its improved behavior suggest 
that the Government of Libya has abandoned its 
past support for terrorism.
(8) The Department of State’s Country Reports 
on Human Rights Practices 2004 describes the Gov-
ernment of Libya as ‘‘authoritarian’’ and its human 
rights record as ‘‘poor’’. 
(9) Notwithstanding problematic aspects of the 
Libyan regime’s behavior, Libya’s dramatically 
changed policies on weapons of mass destruction and 
international terrorism are of historic significance 
and are strongly in the interests of the United 
States, the civilized world, and international peace. 
Dramatic changes in Libya’s policies on weapons of 
mass destruction and terrorism also create hope that 
the Libyan regime will continue to move in positive 
directions in other areas as well, such as human 
rights. 
(10) In light of direct contributions to peace 
and stability resulting from Libya’s new policies, and 
in order to encourage other countries to follow suit, 
it is clearly in the interests of the United States to 
enhance bilateral relations with Libya, to use its in-
fluence to facilitate Libya’s integration into the 
international community, and to encourage positive 
change within Libyan society.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO SUPPORT FOR 
RELATIONS WITH LIBYA. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the decision by the Government of Libya to 
terminate its programs to develop weapons of mass 
destruction and to surrender the equipment and 
plans for such weapons to the International Atomic 
Energy Agency (IAEA) is a dramatic change of 
truly historic significance; 
(2) such decision by Libya has provided vital 
and otherwise inaccessible information about the 
proliferation of nuclear weapons and the means to 
deliver them by other countries and individuals, in-
cluding Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, and the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China, which has been of immense 
importance in the effort of the United States and 
the international community to limit the prolifera-
tion of nuclear weapons; 
(3) The Government of Libya deserves com-
mendation for this farsighted and wise decision; 
(4) the United States should take steps to im-
prove and strengthen its relations with Libya to re-
flect the manifest desire of Libya for better relations 
with the United States and to acknowledge the im-
portance of the aforementioned actions taken by 
Libya, including by—
(A) immediately upgrading its relationship 
with Libya by establishing relations at least at 
the level of charge´ d’affaire´s; 
(B) seeking to reach an agreement with 
the Government of Libya by not later than De-
cember 31, 2005, to establish a United States 
embassy in Tripoli, Libya, which will provide 
the full range of diplomatic and consular serv-
ices, and also a Libyan embassy in Washington, 
D.C.; 
(C) working closely with appropriate Liby-
an officials to ensure that Libya is fulfilling its 
commitment to cease all support for inter-
national terrorist activities and, once assured 
that it is doing so, moving with dispatch to re-
move Libya from the list of state sponsors of 
terrorism; 
(D) facilitating the integration of Libya 
into the international community, including rel-
evant nonmember participation in institutions 
such as the European Union (EU) and the 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); 
(E) developing the framework for an equi-
table bilateral economic, trade, and investment
relationship and promoting economic relations 
with Libya; 
(F) providing technical assistance to Libya 
to support peaceful alternative opportunities for 
scientists and engineers and for the scientific 
and technological institutions which have been 
affected by Libya’s decision to abandon its ef-
forts to develop weapons of mass destruction; 
and 
(G) moving rapidly to achieve cooperation 
on educational and cultural matters between 
the United States and Libya, and in particular 
to facilitate the admission of significant num-
bers of Libyan university students, graduate 
students, and post-graduate students into 
United States institutions of higher education; 
(5) the United States expresses its condolences 
to the families of the 41 Benghazi children afflicted 
by HIV/AIDS who have died and expresses sym-
pathy to the other children who are victims of this 
horrible disease and their families; 
(6) the United States should work with Libya 
to deal with the humanitarian situation of children 
with HIV/AIDS and provide, in cooperation with the
European Union and other governments, technical 
and other assistance; 
(7) the United States should work with the 
Government of Libya and with nongovernmental or-
ganizations active in Libya to encourage political 
freedoms, expansion of a market economy, and re-
spect for human rights; 
(8) the United States should work with Libya 
to assist Libya to play a constructive role in the re-
gion, with neighboring states, in Africa generally, 
and in efforts to achieve peace and democracy in the 
Middle East, including by— 
(A) addressing the issue of illegal immigra-
tion, because Libya is on key migration routes 
from Africa and the Middle East into Europe 
for economic migrants and possibly for terror-
ists; and 
(B) cooperating in the provision of human-
itarian assistance to Darfur, Sudan, and other 
areas in the region; and 
(9) the United States should promote Libya’s 
decision to renounce weapons of mass destruction as 
a model for United States relations with other coun-
tries that may be seeking such weapons, so that 
countries involved in the proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction understand that a definitive end to 
their efforts to acquire or to produce weapons of 
mass destruction will bring about an open path to a 
new era of positive relations with the United States 
and other countries. 
SEC. 4. REPEAL OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO LIBYA IN 
IRAN AND LIBYA SANCTIONS ACT OF 1996. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Section 2 of the Iran and Libya 
Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended 
by striking paragraph (4). 
(b) DECLARATION OF POLICY.—Section 3 of the Iran 
and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(a) POLICY 
WITH RESPECT TO IRAN.—’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (b). 
(c) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.— 
(1) MANDATORY SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
LIBYA.—Section 5 of the Iran and Libya Sanctions 
Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by 
striking subsection (b). 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 5 of 
the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 
U.S.C. 1701 note), as amended by paragraph (1), is 
further amended—
(A) by redesignating subsections (c), (d), 
(e), and (f) as subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e), 
respectively; 
(B) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘sub-
section (f)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (e)’’; 
(C) in subsection (b) (as redesignated)—
(i) in the matter preceding paragraph 
(1), by striking ‘‘subsections (a) and (b)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subsection (a)’’; and 
(ii) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or 
(b)’’; and 
(D) in subsection (e) (as redesignated), in 
the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
‘‘or (b)’’. 
(d) TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS.—Section 8 of the 
Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 
note) is amended—
(1) 
in 
subsection 
(a), 
by 
striking 
‘‘(a)
IRAN.—’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (b). 
(e) DURATION OF SANCTIONS; PRESIDENTIAL WAIV-
ER.—Section 9 of the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 
1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘or 5(b)’’ each 
place it appears; and