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SEC. 314. TAIWAN’S INCLUSION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. 
(a) SENSE
OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that 
the People’s Republic of China’s attempts to dictate the terms 
of Taiwan’s participation in international organizations, has, in 
many cases, resulted in Taiwan’s exclusion from such organizations 
even when statehood is not a requirement, and that such exclu-
sion— 
(1) is detrimental to global health, civilian air safety, and 
efforts to counter transnational crime; 
(2) negatively impacts the safety and security of citizens 
globally; and 
(3) negatively impacts the security of Taiwan and its democ-
racy. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the United States 
to advocate for Taiwan’s meaningful participation in the United 
Nations, the World Health Assembly, the International Civil Avia-
tion Organization, the International Criminal Police Organization, 
and other international bodies, as appropriate, and to advocate 
for Taiwan’s membership in the Food and Agriculture Organization, 
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organiza-
tion, and other international organizations for which statehood 
is not a requirement for membership. 
SEC. 315. REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT OF STATE TAIWAN GUIDELINES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall conduct 
a review of the Department of State’s guidance that governs rela-
tions with Taiwan, including the periodic memorandum entitled 
‘‘Guidelines on Relations with Taiwan’’ and related documents, and 
reissue such guidance to executive branch departments and agen-
cies. 
(b) SENSE
OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that 
the Department of State’s guidance regarding relations with 
Taiwan— 
(1) should be crafted with the intent to deepen and expand 
United States-Taiwan relations, and be based on the value, 
merits, and importance of the United States-Taiwan relation-
ship; 
(2) should be crafted giving due consideration to the fact 
that Taiwan is governed by a representative democratic govern-
ment that is peacefully constituted through free and fair elec-
tions that reflect the will of the people of Taiwan, and that 
Taiwan is a free and open society that respects universal human 
rights and democratic values; and 
(3) should ensure that the conduct of relations with Taiwan 
reflects the longstanding, comprehensive, and values-based 
relationship the United States shares with Taiwan, and con-
tribute to the peaceful resolution of cross-strait issues. 
(c) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
submit to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 
a report that includes a description of— 
(1) the results of the review pursuant to subsection (a) 
of the Department of State’s guidance on relations with Taiwan, 
including a copy of the reissued ‘‘Guidelines of Relations with 
Taiwan’’ memorandum; and
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(2) the implementation of the Taiwan Travel Act (Public 
Law 115–135) and any changes to guidance on relations with 
Taiwan that are the result of such implementation. 
Subtitle C—Support for Human Rights in 
Belarus 
SEC. 321. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Belarus Democracy, Human 
Rights, and Sovereignty Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 322. FINDINGS. 
Section 2 of the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004 (Public Law 
109–480; 22 U.S.C. 5811 note) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
‘‘Congress finds the following: 
‘‘(1) The International Covenant on Civil and Political 
Rights, done at New York December 19, 1966, was ratified 
by Belarus in 1973, guaranteeing Belarusians the freedom of 
expression and the freedom of association. 
‘‘(2) Alyaksandr Lukashenka has ruled Belarus as an 
undemocratic dictatorship since the first presidential election 
in Belarus in 1994. 
‘‘(3) Subsequent presidential elections in Belarus have been 
neither free nor fair and have been rejected by the international 
community as not meeting minimal electoral standards, with 
the jailing of opposition activists frequently used as a tool 
of government repression before and after the elections. 
‘‘(4) In response to the repression and violence during the 
2006 presidential election, Congress passed the Belarus Democ-
racy Reauthorization Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–480). 
‘‘(5) In 2006, President George W. Bush issued Executive 
Order 13405, titled ‘Blocking Property of Certain Persons 
Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Belarus’, 
which authorized the imposition of sanctions against persons 
responsible for— 
‘‘(A) undermining democratic processes in Belarus; or 
‘‘(B) participating in human rights abuses related to 
political repression in Belarus. 
‘‘(6) In March 2011, the Senate unanimously passed Senate 
Resolution 105, which— 
‘‘(A) condemned the December 2010 election in Belarus 
as ‘illegitimate, fraudulent, and not representative of the 
will or the aspirations of the voters in Belarus’; and 
‘‘(B) called on the Lukashenka regime ‘to immediately 
and unconditionally release all political prisoners in 
Belarus who were arrested in association with the 
December 19, 2010, election’. 
‘‘(7) The Government of Belarus, led illegally by Alyaksandr 
Lukashenka, continues to engage in a pattern of clear and 
persistent violations of human rights and fundamental free-
doms. 
‘‘(8) The Government of Belarus, led illegally by Alyaksandr 
Lukashenka, continues to engage in a pattern of clear and
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uncorrected violations of basic principles of democratic govern-
ance, including through a series of fundamentally flawed presi-
dential and parliamentary elections undermining the legitimacy 
of executive and legislative authority in that country. 
‘‘(9) The Government of Belarus, led illegally by Alyaksandr 
Lukashenka, continues to subject thousands of pro-democracy 
political activists and peaceful protesters to harassment, 
beatings, and imprisonment, particularly as a result of their 
attempts to peacefully exercise their right to freedom of 
assembly and association. 
‘‘(10) The Government of Belarus, led illegally by 
Alyaksandr Lukashenka, continues to suppress independent 
media and journalists and to restrict access to the internet, 
including social media and other digital communication plat-
forms, in violation of the right to freedom of speech and expres-
sion of those dissenting from the dictatorship of Alyaksandr 
Lukashenka. 
‘‘(11) The Government of Belarus, led illegally by 
Alyaksandr Lukashenka, continues a systematic campaign of 
harassment, repression, and closure of nongovernmental 
organizations, including independent trade unions and entre-
preneurs, creating a climate of fear that inhibits the develop-
ment of civil society and social solidarity. 
‘‘(12) The Government of Belarus, led illegally by 
Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has pursued a policy undermining 
the country’s sovereignty and independence by making Belarus 
political, economic, cultural, and societal interests subservient 
to those of Russia. 
‘‘(13) The Government of Belarus, led illegally by 
Alyaksandr Lukashenka, continues to reduce the independence 
of Belarus through integration into a so-called ‘Union State’ 
that is under the control of Russia. 
‘‘(14) In advance of the August 2020 presidential elections 
in 
Belarus, 
authorities 
acting 
on 
behalf 
of 
President 
Lukashenka arrested journalists, bloggers, political activists, 
and opposition leaders, including 3 leading presidential can-
didates (Syarhey Tsikhanouski, Mikalay Statkevich, and Viktar 
Babaryka), who were barred from running in the election by 
the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Belarus. 
‘‘(15) While the 3 opposition candidates were imprisoned, 
2 of their wives and 1 of their campaign managers (Sviatlana 
Tsikhanouskaya, Veranika Tsepkala, and Maria Kalesnikava) 
joined together and ran in place of the candidates. 
‘‘(16) Thousands of Belarusian people demonstrated their 
support for these candidates by attending rallies, including 
1 rally that included an estimated 63,000 participants. 
‘‘(17) On August, 5, 2020, the Senate unanimously passed 
Senate Resolution 658, which calls for a free, fair, and trans-
parent 
presidential 
election 
in 
Belarus, 
including 
the 
unimpeded participation of all presidential candidates. 
‘‘(18) On August 9, 2020, the Government of Belarus con-
ducted a presidential election that— 
‘‘(A) was held under undemocratic conditions that did 
not meet international standards; 
‘‘(B) involved government malfeasance and serious 
irregularities with ballot counting and the reporting of 
election results, including—
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‘‘(i) early voting ballot stuffing; 
‘‘(ii) ballot burning; 
‘‘(iii) pressuring poll workers; and 
‘‘(iv) removing bags full of ballots by climbing out 
of windows; 
‘‘(C) included restrictive measures that impeded the 
work of local independent observers and did not provide 
sufficient notice to the OSCE to allow for the OSCE to 
monitor the elections, as is customary. 
‘‘(19) 
Incumbent 
president 
Alyaksandr 
Lukashenka 
declared a landslide victory in the election and claimed to 
have received more than 80 percent of the votes cast in the 
election. 
‘‘(20) 
The 
leading 
opposition 
candidate, 
Sviatlana 
Tsikhanouskaya— 
‘‘(A) formally disputed the government’s reported elec-
tion results; 
‘‘(B) explained that her staff had examined the election 
results from more than 50 polling places; and 
‘‘(C) found that her share of the vote exceeded 
Lukashenka’s share by many times. 
‘‘(21) On August 10, 2020, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was 
detained while attending a meeting with the Central Election 
Commission of the Republic of Belarus and forced to flee to 
Lithuania under pressure from government authorities. 
‘‘(22) On August 11, 2020, Lithuanian Foreign Minister 
Linas Linkevicˇius announced that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya 
was safe in Lithuania and has continued to be one of the 
strongest voices supporting the pro-democracy movement in 
Belarus within the European Union and globally. 
‘‘(23) On August 18, 2020, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya 
announced the formation of a Coordination Council to oversee 
a resolution to the crisis in Belarus and a peaceful transition 
of power by subjecting the Council’s senior members to violence, 
detention, and forced exile. The Government of Belarus, led 
illegally by Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has sought to stop the 
work of the Coordination Council. 
‘‘(24) Before the European Parliament on August 25, 2020, 
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya stressed that a ‘peaceful revolution’ 
was underway in Belarus, and that ‘It is neither a pro-Russian 
nor anti-Russian revolution. It is neither an anti-European 
Union nor a pro-European Union revolution. It is a democratic 
revolution.’. 
‘‘(25) On or around September 6, 2020, opposition leader 
Maria Kalesnikava and members of the Coordination Council, 
including Anton Ronenkov, Ivan Kravtsov, and Maxim 
Bogretsov, were detained by authorities who sought to forcibly 
expel them to Ukraine. Ms. Kalesnikava tore up her passport 
at the Ukrainian border in a successful effort to prevent this 
expulsion, subsequently disappeared, and was discovered in 
a Minsk prison on September 9, 2020. 
‘‘(26) On August 11, 2020, the European Union High Rep-
resentative for Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, 
issued a declaration on the presidential election in Belarus 
stating that the elections were neither free nor fair.