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official capacity of such individual as an officer of the Founda-
tion shall abate by reason of the enactment of this section.
No cause of action by or against the Foundation, or by or
against any officer thereof in the official capacity of such officer,
shall abate by reason of the enactment of this section.
(4) CONTINUATION OF PROCEEDING WITH SUBSTITUTION OF
PARTIES.—If, before the date of the abolition of the Foundation,
the Foundation, or officer thereof in the official capacity of
such officer, is a party to a suit, then effective on such date
such suit shall be continued with the Director substituted or
added as a party.
(5) REVIEWABILITY OF ORDERS AND ACTIONS UNDER TRANS-
FERRED FUNCTIONS.—Orders and actions of the Director in the
exercise of functions terminated or transferred under this sec-
tion shall be subject to judicial review to the same extent
and in the same manner as if such orders and actions had
been taken by the Foundation immediately preceding their
termination or transfer. Any statutory requirements relating
to notice, hearings, action upon the record, or administrative
review that apply to any function transferred by this section
shall apply to the exercise of such function by the Director.
(h) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION.—Section 502 of
the International Security and Development Cooperation Act
of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 290h) is amended—
(A) by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph (2);
(B) by striking the semicolon at the end of paragraph
(3) and inserting a period; and
(C) by striking paragraphs (4) and (5).
(2) SOCIAL PROGRESS TRUST FUND AGREEMENT.—Section 36
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1973 is amended—
(A) in subsection (a)—
(i) by striking ‘‘provide for’’ and all that follows
through ‘‘(2) utilization’’ and inserting ‘‘provide for the
utilization’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘member countries;’’ and all that
follows through ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and inserting ‘‘member
countries.’’;
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘transfer or’’;
(C) by striking subsection (c);
(D) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (c);
and
(E) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated), by striking
‘‘transfer or’’.
(3) FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961.—Section 222A(d) of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2182a(d)) is
repealed.
(i) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means the Committee on Appropriations and
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations and the Committee on International Rela-
tions of the House of Representatives.
( j) EFFECTIVE DATES.—The repeal made by subsection (c)(2)
and the amendments made by subsection (h) shall take effect upon
the date of transmittal to Congress of the certification described
in subsection (d)(4).
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WEST BANK AND GAZA PROGRAM
SEC. 587. For fiscal year 2000, 30 days prior to the initial
obligation of funds for the bilateral West Bank and Gaza Program,
the Secretary of State shall certify to the appropriate committees
of Congress that procedures have been established to assure the
Comptroller General of the United States will have access to appro-
priate United States financial information in order to review the
uses of United States assistance for the Program funded under
the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ for the West Bank and
Gaza.
HUMAN RIGHTS ASSISTANCE
SEC. 588. Of the funds made available under the heading
‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’, not less
than $500,000 should be provided to the Colombia Attorney Gen-
eral’s Human Rights Unit, not less than $500,000 should be made
available to support the activities of Colombian nongovernmental
organizations involved in human rights monitoring, not less than
$250,000 should be provided to the United Nations High Commis-
sioner for Human Rights to assist the Government of Colombia
in strengthening its human rights policies and programs, not less
than $1,000,000 should be made available for personnel and other
resources to enhance United States Embassy monitoring of assist-
ance to the Colombian security forces and responding to reports
of human rights violations, and not less than $5,000,000 should
be made available for administration of justice programs including
support for the Colombia Attorney General’s Technical Investiga-
tions Unit.
SELF-DETERMINATION IN EAST TIMOR
SEC. 589. (a) MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE.—Except
as provided in subsection (c), the Secretary of the Treasury should
instruct the United States executive directors to the international
financial institutions to oppose, and vote against, any extension
by those institutions of any financial assistance (including any
technical assistance or grant) to the Government of Indonesia.
(b) BILATERAL ASSISTANCE AND LICENSES.—Except as provided
in subsection (c)—
(1) none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able by this Act or any prior Foreign Operations Appropriations
Act may be made available for assistance for the Government
of Indonesia; and
(2) none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able by this Act or any prior Foreign Operations Appropriations
Act may be made available for licensing exports of defense
articles or services for Indonesia under section 38 of the Arms
Export Control Act.
(c) EXCEPTIONS.—
(1) Subsection (a) shall not apply to the provision of assist-
ance to meet basic human needs for Indonesia or East Timor.
(2) Subsection (b) shall not apply to the provision of funds
appropriated or otherwise made available to carry out chapter
1 of part I or chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961, or humanitarian assistance, for the Government
of Indonesia or East Timor, except that such funds shall be
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subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees
on Appropriations.
(d) CONDITIONS FOR TERMINATION.—The measures described
in subsections (a) and (b) shall apply until the President determines
and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the
Government of Indonesia and the Indonesian armed forces have—
(1) ended the violence by units of the Indonesian armed
forces and by anti-independence militias;
(2) enabled displaced persons and refugees to return home;
(3) ensured freedom of movement in East Timor, including
by humanitarian organizations;
(4) enabled UNAMET to fulfill its mandate, without threat
or intimidation to its personnel;
(5) withdrawn from East Timor in accordance with a United
Nations-supervised process of transferring sovereignty to an
independent East Timor;
(6) cooperated fully with efforts to investigate and prosecute
members of the Indonesian armed forces and anti-independence
militias responsible for human rights violations in East Timor;
and
(7) cooperated fully with efforts to implement the results
of the August 30, 1999, vote on East Timor’s political status.
MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE
SEC. 590. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act may be provided for the United Nations
Man and the Biosphere Program or the United Nations World
Heritage Fund for programs in the United States.
IMMUNITY OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
SEC. 591. (a) Subject to subsection (b), the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia shall be deemed to be a state sponsor of terrorism
for the purposes of 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(7).
(b) This section shall not apply to Montenegro or Kosova.
(c) This section shall become null and void when the President
certifies in writing to the Congress that the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia (other than Montenegro and Kosova) has completed
a democratic reform process that results in a newly elected govern-
ment that respects the rights of ethnic minorities, is committed
to the rule of law and respects the sovereignty of its neighbor
states.
(d) The certification provided for in subsection (c) shall not
affect the continuation of litigation commenced against the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia prior to its fulfillment of the conditions
in subsection (c).
UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE POLICY FOR OPPOSITION-CONTROLLED
AREAS OF SUDAN
SEC. 592. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
President, acting through appropriate Federal agencies, may pro-
vide food assistance to groups engaged in the protection of civilian
populations from attacks by regular government of Sudan forces,
associated militias, or other paramilitary groups supported by the
Government of Sudan. Such assistance may only be provided in
a way that: (1) does not endanger, compromise or otherwise reduce
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the United States’ support for unilateral, multilateral or private
humanitarian operations or the beneficiaries of those operations;
or (2) compromise any ongoing or future people-to-people reconcili-
ation efforts. Any such assistance shall be provided separate from
and not in proximity to current humanitarian efforts, both within
Operation Lifeline Sudan or outside of Operation Lifeline Sudan,
or any other current or future humanitarian operations which serve
noncombatants. In considering eligibility of potential recipients,
the President shall determine that the group respects human rights,
democratic principles, and the integrity of ongoing humanitarian
operations, and cease such assistance if the determination can
no longer be made.
(b) Not later than February 1, 2000, the President shall submit
to the Committees on Appropriations a report on United States
bilateral assistance to opposition-controlled areas of Sudan. Such
report shall include—
(1) an accounting of United States bilateral assistance to
opposition-controlled areas of Sudan, provided in fiscal years
1997, 1998, 1999, and proposed for fiscal year 2000, and the
goals and objectives of such assistance;
(2) the policy implications and costs, including logistics
and administrative costs, associated with providing humani-
tarian assistance, including food, directly to National Demo-
cratic Alliance participants and the Sudanese People’s Libera-
tion Movement operating outside of the United Nations’ Oper-
ation Lifeline Sudan structure, and the United States agencies
best suited to administer these activities; and
(3) the policy implications of increasing substantially the
amount of development assistance for democracy promotion,
civil administration, judiciary, and infrastructure support in
opposition-controlled areas of Sudan and the obstacles to admin-
istering a development assistance program in this region.
CONSULTATIONS ON ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN
SEC. 593. Consistent with the intent of Congress expressed
in the enactment of section 3(b) of the Taiwan Relations Act, the
Secretary of State shall consult with the appropriate committees
and leadership of Congress to devise a mechanism to provide for
congressional input prior to making any determination on the
nature or quantity of defense articles and services to be made
available to Taiwan.
AUTHORIZATIONS
SEC. 594. The Secretary of the Treasury may, to fulfill commit-
ments of the United States: (1) effect the United States participation
in the fifth general capital increase of the African Development
Bank, the first general capital increase of the Multilateral Invest-
ment Guarantee Agency, and the first general capital increase
of the Inter-American Investment Corporation; and (2) contribute
on behalf of the United States to the eighth replenishment of
the resources of the African Development Fund and the twelfth
replenishment of the International Development Association. The
following amounts are authorized to be appropriated without fiscal
year limitation for payment by the Secretary of the Treasury:
$40,847,011 for paid-in capital, and $639,932,485 for callable cap-
ital, of the African Development Bank; $29,870,087 for paid-in