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GUATEMALA
SEC. 568. (a) Funds provided in this Act may be
made available for the Guatemalan military forces, and
the restrictions on Guatemala under the headings ‘‘Inter-
national Military Education and Training’’ and ‘‘Foreign
Military Financing Program’’ shall not apply, only if the
President determines and certifies to the Congress that
the Guatemalan military is cooperating with efforts to re-
solve human rights abuses which elements of the Guate-
malan military forces are alleged to have committed, or-
dered or attempted to thwart the investigation of.
(b) The prohibition contained in subsection (a) shall
not apply to funds made available to implement a ceasefire
or peace agreement.
(c) Any funds made available pursuant to subsections
(a) or (b) shall be subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations.
(d) Any funds made available pursuant to subsections
(a) and (b) for international military education and train-
ing may only be for expanded international military edu-
cation and training.
SANCTIONS AGAINST COUNTRIES HARBORING WAR
CRIMINALS
SEC. 569. (a) BILATERAL ASSISTANCE.—The Presi-
dent is authorized to withhold funds appropriated by this
Act under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms
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Export Control Act for any country described in sub-
section (c).
(b) MULTILATERAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary of
the Treasury should instruct the United States executive
directors of the international financial institutions to work
in opposition to, and vote against, any extension by such
institutions of financing or financial or technical assist-
ance to any country described in subsection (c).
(c) SANCTIONED COUNTRIES.—A country described
in this subsection is a country the government of which
knowingly grants sanctuary to persons in its territory for
the purpose of evading prosecution, where such persons—
(1) have been indicted by the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, or any
other international tribunal with similar standing
under international law, or
(2) have been indicted for war crimes or crimes
against humanity committed during the period be-
ginning March 23, 1933 and ending on May 8, 1945
under the direction of, or in association with—
(A) the Nazi government of Germany;
(B) any government in any area occupied
by the military forces of the Nazi government
of Germany;
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(C) any government which was established
with the assistance or cooperation of the Nazi
government; or
(D) any government which was an ally of
the Nazi government of Germany.
LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE FOR HAITI
SEC. 570. (a) LIMITATION.—None of the funds ap-
propriated or otherwise made available by this Act, may
be provided to the Government of Haiti until the President
reports to Congress that—
(1) the Government is conducting thorough in-
vestigations of extrajudicial and political killings;
and
(2) the Government is cooperating with United
States authorities in the investigations of political
and extrajudicial killings.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to re-
strict the provision of humanitarian or electoral assist-
ance.
(c) The President may waive the requirements of this
section on a quarterly basis if he determines and certifies
to the appropriate committees of Congress that it is in
the national interest of the United States.
(d) The authority contained in the previous sub-
section to make such a determination may be exercised
by the President only and may not be delegated.
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LIMITATION OF ASSISTANCE TO TURKEY
SEC. 571. Not more than $25,000,000 of the funds
appropriated in this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic
Support Fund’’ may be made available to the Government
of Turkey.
REPORTS REGARDING HONG KONG
SEC. 572. (a) Section 301 of the United States-Hong
Kong Policy Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5731) is amended
in the text above paragraph (1) by inserting ‘‘March 31,
1997,’’ after ‘‘March 31, 1996,’’.
(b) In light of the deficiencies in reports submitted
to the Congress pursuant to section 301 of the United
States-Hong Kong Policy Act (22 U.S.C. 5731), the Con-
gress directs that the additional report required to be sub-
mitted under such section by subsection (a) of this section
include detailed information on the status of, and other
developments affecting, implementation of the Sino-Brit-
ish Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, in-
cluding—
(1) the Basic Law and its consistency with the
Joint Declaration;
(2) Beijing’s plans to replace the elected legisla-
ture with an appointed body;
(3) the openness and fairness of the election of
the chief executive and the executive’s accountability
to the legislature;
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(4) the treatment of political parties;
(5) the independence of the Judiciary and its
ability to exercise the power of final judgment over
Hong Kong law; and
(6) the Bill of Rights.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Foreign Operations,
Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations
Act, 1997’’.