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(b) EMPHASIS
ON DIVERSITY.—The review con-
ducted under subsection (a) shall include an emphasis on 
improving the ethnic, racial, cultural, and gender diversity 
of personnel of the Department of State. 
(c) BIENNIAL REPORT.—The Secretary shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a biennial re-
port on the reviews conducted under this section and ef-
forts to improve diversity of the personnel of the Depart-
ment of State. 
SEC. 319. WORLDWIDE AVAILABILITY. 
Section 301(b) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
(22 U.S.C. 3491(b)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new sentence: ‘‘At the time of entry into the 
Service, each member of the Service must be worldwide 
available, as determined by the Secretary of State through 
appropriate medical examinations, unless the Secretary 
determines that a waiver of the worldwide availability re-
quirement is required to fulfill a compelling Service need. 
The Secretary shall establish an internal administrative 
review process for medical ineligibility determinations.’’.
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SEC. 320. TREATMENT OF TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS 
AS 
PART 
OF 
THE 
GEOGRAPHIC 
UNITED 
STATES FOR PURPOSES OF TRANSFER AL-
LOWANCES. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for pur-
poses of transfer allowances for employees of the Depart-
ment of State under section 5924(2)(B) of title 5, United 
States Code, the territories and possessions of the United 
States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, shall be con-
sidered part of the geographic United States. 
TITLE IV—INTERNATIONAL 
ORGANIZATIONS 
SEC. 401. REDI CENTER. 
The Secretary of State is authorized to provide for 
the participation by the United States in the Regional 
Emerging Disease Intervention (‘‘REDI’’) Center in 
Singapore. 
SEC. 402. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA-
TION FOR THE UNITED STATES COMMISSION 
ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 207 of 
the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 
U.S.C. 6435) is amended by striking ‘‘$3,000,000 for the 
fiscal year 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘$3,300,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2006 through 2011’’.
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(b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Subsection (b) of 
such section is amended by striking ‘‘subparagraph’’ and 
inserting ‘‘subsection’’. 
SEC. 403. REFORM OF THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC EN-
ERGY AGENCY. 
(a) FINDINGS WITH RESPECT
TO
THE INTER-
NATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY.—Congress finds the 
following: 
(1) Efforts to prevent the further spread of nu-
clear weapons capabilities would be enhanced by uni-
versal membership in the International Atomic En-
ergy Agency (IAEA). 
(2) The enhanced authorities provided by the 
Additional Protocol to the Safeguards Agreements 
between the IAEA and Member States of the IAEA 
are indispensable to the ability of the IAEA to con-
duct inspections of nuclear facilities to a high degree 
of confidence. 
(3) The national security interests of the 
United States would be enhanced by the universal 
ratification and implementation of the Additional 
Protocol. 
(4) The national security interests of the 
United States would be enhanced by the rapid imple-
mentation by all Member States of the United Na-
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tions of United Nations Security Council Resolution 
1540, which prohibits all Member States from pro-
viding any form of support to non-state actors that 
attempt to manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, 
transport, transfer, or use nuclear, chemical, or bio-
logical weapons and their means of delivery, and re-
quiring all Member States to adopt and enforce ap-
propriate and effective domestic laws criminalizing 
such acts. 
(5) The national security interests of the 
United States require that the IAEA possess suffi-
cient authorities and resources to comprehensively 
and efficiently carry out its responsibilities for in-
spections and safeguards of nuclear facilities. 
(6) Regularly assessed contributions of Member 
States to the regular budget of the IAEA are due 
in the first quarter of each calendar year. 
(7) Currently, the United States does not pay 
its regularly assessed contribution to the regular 
budget of the IAEA until the last quarter of each 
calendar year. 
(8) This delayed payment results in recurring 
shortages of funds for the IAEA, thus compromising 
its ability to conduct safeguards inspections and nu-
clear security activities.
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(b) FINDINGS WITH RESPECT TO THE NUCLEAR 
NONPROLIFERATION TREATY.—Congress finds the fol-
lowing: 
(1) The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nu-
clear Weapons (21 UST 483) (commonly referred to 
as the ‘‘Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty’’ or the 
‘‘NPT’’) is the foundation for international coopera-
tion to prevent the further spread of nuclear weap-
ons capabilities. 
(2) The NPT was conceived, written, and rati-
fied by State Parties as a treaty for the specific pur-
pose of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weap-
ons and nuclear explosive devices, as stated in the 
Preamble and first three Articles of the NPT. 
(3) The overriding priority of the NPT is pre-
venting the proliferation of nuclear weapons and nu-
clear explosive devices. 
(4) Article IV of the NPT conditions the ‘‘in-
alienable right to develop research, production and 
use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without 
discrimination’’ on conformity with Articles I and II, 
which obligate signatories ‘‘not to manufacture of 
otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear 
explosive devices; and not to seek or receive any as-
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sistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or 
other nuclear explosive devices’’. 
(5) Because the processes used for the enrich-
ment of uranium and the reprocessing of plutonium 
for peaceful purposes are virtually identical to those 
needed for military purposes and thereby inherently 
pose an enhanced risk of proliferation, even under 
strict international inspections, Article IV of the 
NPT cannot be interpreted to recognize the inalien-
able right by every country to enrich uranium or re-
process plutonium. 
(6) Because the factors needed for the develop-
ment of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes are vir-
tually identical to those required for the development 
of nuclear weapons and devices, Article X cannot be 
interpreted to allow a signatory country to develop 
a nuclear weapons program based on materials, fa-
cilities, and equipment it has acquired through its 
Article IV cooperation. 
(c) STATEMENT OF CONGRESS.—Congress declares 
that— 
(1) all provisions of the NPT must be inter-
preted within the context of preventing the prolifera-
tion of nuclear weapons and nuclear explosive de-
vices;
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(2) Article IV of the NPT, interpreted in con-
formity with the NPT’s purpose, spirit, and freely 
undertaken obligations by State Parties, does not 
guarantee every country that is a State Party an in-
alienable right to enrich uranium or reprocess pluto-
nium; and 
(3) if a State Party chooses to exercise its Arti-
cle X right of withdrawal from the NPT, such State 
Party must surrender all of the materials, facilities, 
and equipment it has acquired through its Article IV 
cooperation, and no State Party will be recognized 
as having legally exercised its Article X right of 
withdrawal from the NPT until it has surrendered 
all such materials, facilities, and equipment. 
(d) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the Director General of the IAEA should 
strengthen efforts to secure universal ratification 
and implementation of the Additional Protocol; and 
(2) the IAEA possesses statutory authority, in-
cluding under Articles II, III, VIII, IX, XI, and XII 
of the IAEA Statute, to undertake nuclear security 
activities.
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(e) PROMOTION
OF ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL
AND 
UNITED
NATIONS
SECURITY
COUNCIL
RESOLUTION 
1540.— 
(1) UNIVERSAL RATIFICATION AND IMPLEMEN-
TATION; FULL
COMPLIANCE.—The President shall 
take such steps as the President determines nec-
essary to encourage— 
(A) rapid universal ratification and imple-
mentation by Member States of the IAEA of 
the Additional Protocol to the Safeguards 
Agreements between the IAEA and Member 
States; and 
(B) full compliance by all foreign countries 
with United Nations Security Council Resolu-
tion 1540, which calls for the adoption and en-
forcement by all foreign countries of ‘‘appro-
priate effective laws which prohibit any non- 
State actor to manufacture, acquire, possess, 
develop, transport, transfer or use nuclear, 
chemical or biological weapons and their means 
of delivery, in particular for terrorist purposes, 
as well as attempts to engage in any of the 
foregoing activities, participate in them as an 
accomplice, assist or finance them’’.
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(2) SUSPENSION OF UNITED STATES NON-HU-
MANITARIAN FOREIGN ASSISTANCE.—The President 
is authorized to suspend United States non-humani-
tarian foreign assistance to any country that— 
(A) has not signed and ratified the Addi-
tional Protocol; and 
(B) has not fully complied with United Na-
tions Security Council Resolution 1540. 
(3) REPORT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act and 
annually thereafter until September 31, 2010, 
the Secretary of State shall submit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a report on 
United States efforts to promote full compliance 
by all countries with United Nations Security 
Council Resolution 1540, with particular atten-
tion to the following: 
(i) United States efforts in appro-
priate international organizations or fora 
to elaborate and implement international 
standards for such full compliance. 
(ii) Steps taken by the United States 
to assist other countries to meet their obli-
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gations under United Nations Security 
Council Resolution 1540. 
(B) SUBMISSION.—The report required 
under this paragraph may be submitted to-
gether with the report on ‘‘Patterns of Global 
of Terrorism’’. 
(f) PAYMENT AT BEGINNING OF CALENDAR YEAR.— 
The Secretary of State shall take expeditious action to en-
sure that the United States regularly assessed contribu-
tion to the IAEA is made at the beginning of each cal-
endar year. 
(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In addi-
tion to amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated 
to the Secretary of State under this Act, there are author-
ized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may 
be necessary to permit the Secretary to ensure that the 
United States regularly assessed contribution of its annual 
dues to the IAEA is provided to the IAEA at the begin-
ning of each calendar year to compensate for the current 
delayed payment described under subsection (b). 
SEC. 404. PROPERTY DISPOSITION. 
Section 633(e) of the Departments of Commerce, 
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2004 (division B of Public Law 108– 
199; 22 U.S.C. 2078(e)) is amended—
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(1) by striking ‘‘The United States, through the 
Department of State, shall retain ownership of the 
Palazzo Corpi building in Istanbul, Turkey, and the’’ 
and inserting ‘‘The’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘at such location’’ and inserting 
‘‘at an appropriate location’’. 
TITLE V—INTERNATIONAL 
BROADCASTING 
SEC. 501. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘International Broad-
casting Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007’’. 
SEC. 502. MIDDLE EAST BROADCASTING NETWORKS. 
(a) MIDDLE EAST BROADCASTING NETWORKS.—The 
United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 
U.S.C. 6201 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 
309 (22 U.S.C. 6208) the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 309A. MIDDLE EAST BROADCASTING NETWORKS. 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—Grants authorized under section 
305 shall be available to make annual grants to the Middle 
East Broadcasting Networks for the purpose of carrying 
out radio and television broadcasting to the Middle East 
region. 
‘‘(b) FUNCTION.—Middle East Broadcasting Net-
works shall provide radio and television programming con-
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sistent with the broadcasting standards and broadcasting 
principles set forth in section 303. 
‘‘(c) GRANT AGREEMENT.—Any grant agreement or 
grants under this section shall be subject to the following 
limitations and restrictions: 
‘‘(1) The Board may not make any grant to the 
non-profit corporation, Middle East Broadcasting 
Networks, unless its certificate of incorporation pro-
vides that— 
‘‘(A) The Board of Directors of Middle 
East Broadcasting Networks shall consist of the 
members of the Broadcasting Board of Gov-
ernors established under section 304 and of no 
other members. 
‘‘(B) Such Board of Directors shall make 
all major policy determinations governing the 
operation of Middle East Broadcasting Net-
works, and shall appoint and fix the compensa-
tion of such managerial officers and employees 
of Middle East Broadcasting Networks as it 
considers necessary to carry out the purposes of 
the grant provided under this title, except that 
no officer or employee may be paid basic com-
pensation at a rate in excess of the rate for 
level II of the Executive Schedule as provided