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of the existence of dioxin contamination resulting from the use 
of Agent Orange in Laos and the feasibility and cost of remediation. 
(e) NORTH KOREA.— 
(1) CYBERSECURITY.—None of the funds appropriated by 
this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for the Department 
of State, foreign operations, and related programs may be made 
available for assistance for the central government of a country 
the Secretary of State determines and reports to the appropriate 
congressional committees engages in significant transactions 
contributing 
materially 
to 
the 
malicious 
cyber-intrusion 
capabilities of the Government of North Korea: Provided, That 
the Secretary of State shall submit the report required by 
section 209 of the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhance-
ment Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–122; 22 U.S.C. 9229) to 
the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the 
Secretary of State may waive the application of the restriction 
in this paragraph with respect to assistance for the central 
government of a country if the Secretary determines and reports 
to the appropriate congressional committees that to do so is 
important to the national security interest of the United States, 
including a description of such interest served. 
(2) BROADCASTS.—Funds appropriated by this Act under 
the heading ‘‘International Broadcasting Operations’’ shall be 
made available to maintain broadcasting hours into North 
Korea at levels not less than the prior fiscal year. 
(3) HUMAN RIGHTS.—Funds appropriated by this Act under 
the headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ and ‘‘Democracy Fund’’ 
shall be made available for the promotion of human rights 
in North Korea: Provided, That the authority of section 
7032(b)(1) of this Act shall apply to such funds. 
(4) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—None of the funds made 
available by this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Support 
Fund’’ may be made available for assistance for the Government 
of North Korea. 
(f) PACIFIC ISLANDS COUNTRIES.— 
(1) OPERATIONS.—Funds appropriated under title I in this 
Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the Department 
of State, foreign operations, and related programs may be made 
available for establishing and operating diplomatic facilities 
in Kiribati, Tonga, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, subject to 
section 7015(a)(3) of this Act and following consultation with 
the Committees on Appropriations. 
(2) ASSISTANCE.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act 
under the headings ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Sup-
port 
Fund’’, 
‘‘International 
Narcotics 
Control 
and 
Law 
Enforcement″, ″Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and 
Related Programs’’, and ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, 
not less than $150,000,000 shall be made available for assist-
ance for Pacific Islands countries, as specified under this section 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act), following 
consultation with the Committees on Appropriations: Provided, 
That funds made available pursuant to this paragraph shall 
be made available for joint development and security programs 
between the United States and such countries in coordination 
with regional allies and partners, including Taiwan. 
(g) PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.—
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(1) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—None of the funds appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ in this Act 
may be obligated or expended for processing licenses for the 
export of satellites of United States origin (including commer-
cial satellites and satellite components) to the People’s Republic 
of China (PRC) unless, at least 15 days in advance, the Commit-
tees on Appropriations are notified of such proposed action. 
(2) PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY.—The terms and require-
ments of section 620(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
shall apply to foreign assistance projects or activities of the 
People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the PRC, to include such 
projects or activities by any entity that is owned or controlled 
by, or an affiliate of, the PLA: Provided, That none of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to 
this Act may be used to finance any grant, contract, or coopera-
tive agreement with the PLA, or any entity that the Secretary 
of State has reason to believe is owned or controlled by, or 
an affiliate of, the PLA. 
(3) HONG KONG.— 
(A) DEMOCRACY PROGRAMS.—Of the funds appropriated 
by this Act under the first paragraph under the heading 
‘‘Democracy Fund’’, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made 
available for democracy and Internet freedom programs 
for Hong Kong, including legal and other support for democ-
racy activists. 
(B) RESTRICTIONS ON ASSISTANCE.—None of the funds 
appropriated by this Act or prior Acts making appropria-
tions for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 
related programs that are made available for assistance 
for Hong Kong should be obligated for assistance for the 
Government of the People’s Republic of China and the 
Chinese Communist Party or any entity acting on their 
behalf in Hong Kong. 
(C) REPORT.—The report required under section 
7043(f)(3)(C) of the Department of State, Foreign Oper-
ations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2021 
(division K of Public Law 116–260) shall be updated and 
submitted to the Congress in the manner described. 
(h) PHILIPPINES.—None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be made available for counternarcotics assistance for the Phil-
ippines, except for drug demand reduction, maritime law enforce-
ment, or transnational interdiction. 
(i) TAIWAN.— 
(1) GLOBAL COOPERATION AND TRAINING FRAMEWORK.—Of 
the funds appropriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic 
Support Fund’’, not less than $4,000,000 shall be made available 
for the Global Cooperation and Training Framework, which 
shall be administered by the American Institute in Taiwan. 
(2) FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING.—Funds appropriated by 
this Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the Depart-
ment of State, foreign operations, and related programs under 
the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, except for 
amounts designated as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, may be made 
available for the costs, as defined in section 502 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, of direct loans and loan guarantees
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for Taiwan, if otherwise authorized: Provided, That such costs 
may include the costs of selling, reducing, or cancelling any 
amounts owed to the United States or any agency of the United 
States: Provided further, That the gross principal balance of 
such direct loans shall not exceed $2,000,000,000, and the 
gross principal balance of guaranteed loans shall not exceed 
$2,000,000,000: Provided further, That the Secretary of State 
may use amounts charged to the borrower as origination fees 
to pay for the cost of such loans. 
(3) FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.—Funds appropriated by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Payment to the American Institute in 
Taiwan’’ shall be made available to establish a Taiwan Fellow-
ship Program. 
(4) CONSULTATION.—Not later than 60 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall consult 
with the Committees on Appropriations on the uses of funds 
made available pursuant to this subsection: Provided, That 
such funds shall be subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
(j) TIBET.— 
(1) FINANCING OF PROJECTS IN TIBET.—The Secretary of 
the Treasury should instruct the United States executive 
director of each international financial institution to use the 
voice and vote of the United States to support financing of 
projects in Tibet if such projects do not provide incentives 
for the migration and settlement of non-Tibetans into Tibet 
or facilitate the transfer of ownership of Tibetan land and 
natural resources to non-Tibetans, are based on a thorough 
needs-assessment, foster self-sufficiency of the Tibetan people 
and respect Tibetan culture and traditions, and are subject 
to effective monitoring. 
(2) PROGRAMS FOR TIBETAN COMMUNITIES.— 
(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of 
the funds appropriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Eco-
nomic Support Fund’’, not less than $10,000,000 shall be 
made available to nongovernmental organizations with 
experience working with Tibetan communities to support 
activities which preserve cultural traditions and promote 
sustainable development, education, and environmental 
conservation in Tibetan communities in the Tibet Autono-
mous Region and in other Tibetan communities in China. 
(B) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the 
heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, not less than $8,000,000 
shall be made available for programs to promote and pre-
serve Tibetan culture and language in the refugee and 
diaspora Tibetan communities, development, and the resil-
ience of Tibetan communities and the Central Tibetan 
Administration in India and Nepal, and to assist in the 
education and development of the next generation of 
Tibetan leaders from such communities: Provided, That 
such funds are in addition to amounts made available 
in subparagraph (A) for programs inside Tibet. 
(C) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the 
heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, not less than $3,000,000 
shall be made available for programs to strengthen the 
capacity of the Central Tibetan Administration: Provided,
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That such funds shall be administered by the United States 
Agency for International Development. 
(k) VIETNAM.— 
(1) Of the funds appropriated under titles III and IV of 
this Act, not less than $197,000,000 shall be made available 
for assistance for Vietnam, of which not less than— 
(A) $30,000,000 shall be made available for health 
and disability programs to assist persons with severe phys-
ical mobility, cognitive, or developmental disabilities: Pro-
vided, That such funds shall be prioritized to assist persons 
whose disabilities may be related to the use of Agent 
Orange and exposure to dioxin, or are the result of 
unexploded ordnance accidents; 
(B) $20,000,000 shall be made available, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, for activities related 
to the remediation of dioxin contaminated sites in Vietnam 
and may be made available for assistance for the Govern-
ment of Vietnam, including the military, for such purposes; 
(C) $3,000,000 shall be made available for the Rec-
onciliation/Vietnamese Wartime Accounting Initiative; and 
(D) $15,000,000 shall be made available for higher 
education programs. 
(2) Section 7043(i)(1) of the Department of State, Foreign 
Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2022 
(division K of Public Law 117–103) is amended by striking 
‘‘that’’ and inserting ‘‘: Provided, That such funds shall be 
prioritized to assist persons whose disabilities’’. 
SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA 
SEC. 7044. (a) AFGHANISTAN.— 
(1) RESTRICTION.—None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the Department 
of State, foreign operations, and related programs and made 
available for assistance for Afghanistan may be made available 
for direct assistance to the Taliban. 
(2) AFGHAN
SPECIAL
IMMIGRANT
VISAS.—Funds appro-
priated or otherwise made available by this Act under the 
heading ‘‘Administration for Foreign Affairs’’ and fees available 
for obligation during fiscal year 2023 in the Consular and 
Border Security Programs account shall be made available for 
additional Department of State personnel necessary to elimi-
nate processing backlogs and expedite adjudication of Afghan 
Special Immigrant Visa cases, including for the National Visa 
Center and the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Unit. 
(3) AFGHAN STUDENTS.—Funds appropriated by this Act 
and prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of 
State, foreign operations, and related programs shall be made 
available to support the higher education of students from 
Afghanistan studying outside of the country, including the costs 
of reimbursement to institutions hosting such students, as 
appropriate: Provided, That the Secretary of State and the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, as appropriate, shall consult with the Committees 
on Appropriations prior to the initial obligation of funds for 
such purposes.