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(f) Funds appropriated in this or prior appropriations
Acts that are or have been made available for an Enterprise
Fund in the New Independent States of the Former Soviet
Union may be deposited by such Fund in interest-bearing
accounts prior to the disbursement of such funds by the
Fund for program purposes. The Fund may retain for such
program purposes any interest earned on such deposits
without returning such interest to the Treasury of the
United States and without further appropriation by the
Congress. Funds made available for Enterprise Funds shall
be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make timely
payment for projects and activities.
(g) In issuing new task orders, entering into contracts,
or making grants, with funds appropriated in this Act or
prior appropriations Acts under the heading ‘‘Assistance
for the New Independent States of the Former Soviet
Union’’ for projects or activities that have as one of their
primary purposes the fostering of private sector develop-
ment, the Coordinator for United States Assistance to the
New Independent States and the implementing agency shall
encourage the participation of and give significant weight
to contractors and grantees who propose investing a signifi-
cant amount of their own resources (including volunteer
services and in-kind contributions) in such projects and ac-
tivities.
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CUSTOMS ASSISTANCE
SEC. 575. Section 660(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961 is amended by—
(1) striking the period at the end of paragraph
(6) and in lieu thereof inserting a semicolon; and
(2) adding the following new paragraph:
‘‘(7) with respect to assistance provided to
customs authorities and personnel, including
training, technical assistance and equipment, for
customs law enforcement and the improvement of
customs laws, systems and procedures.’’.
VOLUNTARY SEPARATION INCENTIVES FOR EMPLOYEES OF
THE U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SEC. 576. (a) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this
section—
(1) the term ‘‘agency’’ means the United States
Agency for International Development;
(2) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Admin-
istrator, United States Agency for International De-
velopment; and
(3) the term ‘‘employee’’ means an employee (as
defined by section 2105 of title 5, United States Code)
who is employed by the agency, is serving under an
appointment without time limitation, and has been
currently employed for a continuous period of at least
3 years, but does not include—
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(A) a reemployed annuitant under sub-
chapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title
5, United States Code, or another retirement sys-
tem for employees of the agency;
(B) an employee having a disability on the
basis of which such employee is or would be eli-
gible for disability retirement under the applica-
ble retirement system referred to in subpara-
graph (A);
(C) an employee who is to be separated in-
voluntarily for misconduct or unacceptable per-
formance, and to whom specific notice has been
given with respect to that separation;
(D) an employee who has previously re-
ceived any voluntary separation incentive pay-
ment by the Government of the United States
under this section or any other authority and
has not repaid such payment;
(E) an employee covered by statutory reem-
ployment rights who is on transfer to another or-
ganization; or
(F) any employee who, during the 24-month
period preceding the date of separation, received
a recruitment or relocation bonus under section
5753 of title 5, United States Code, or who, with-
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in the 12-month period preceding the date of sep-
aration, received a retention allowance under
section 5754 of such title 5.
(b) AGENCY STRATEGIC PLAN.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator, before ob-
ligating any resources for voluntary separation incen-
tive payments under this section, shall submit to the
Office of Management and Budget a strategic plan
outlining the intended use of such incentive payments
and a proposed organizational chart for the agency
once such incentive payments have been completed.
(2) 
CONTENTS.—The 
agency’s 
plan 
shall
include—
(A) the positions and functions to be re-
duced or eliminated, identified by organizational
unit, geographic location, occupational category
and grade level;
(B) the number and amounts of voluntary
separation incentive payments to be offered;
(C) a description of how the agency will op-
erate without the eliminated positions and func-
tions; and
(D) the time period during which incentives
may be paid.
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(3) APPROVAL.—The Director of the Office of
Management and Budget shall review the agency’s
plan and approve or disapprove the plan and may
make appropriate modifications in the plan with re-
spect to the coverage of incentives as described under
paragraph (2)(A), and with respect to the matters de-
scribed in paragraphs (2) (B) through (D).
(c) AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE VOLUNTARY SEPARATION
INCENTIVE PAYMENTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—A voluntary separation incen-
tive payment under this section may be paid by the
agency to employees of such agency and only to the
extent necessary to eliminate the positions and func-
tions identified by the strategic plan.
(2) AMOUNT AND TREATMENT OF PAYMENTS.—A
voluntary separation incentive payment under this
section—
(A) shall be paid in a lump sum after the
employee’s separation;
(B) shall be paid from appropriations or
funds available for the payment of the basic pay
of the employees;
(C) shall be equal to the lesser of—
(i) an amount equal to the amount the
employee would be entitled to receive under
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section 5595(c) of title 5, United States
Code, if the employee were entitled to pay-
ment under such section; or
(ii) an amount determined by the
agency head not to exceed $25,000;
(D) may not be made except in the case of
any employee who voluntarily separates (whether
by retirement or resignation) on or before De-
cember 31, 2000;
(E) shall not be a basis for payment, and
shall not be included in the computation, of any
other type of Government benefit; and
(F) shall not be taken into account in deter-
mining the amount of any severance pay to
which the employee may be entitled under section
5595 of title 5, United States Code, based on any
other separation.
(d) ADDITIONAL AGENCY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE RE-
TIREMENT FUND.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—In addition to any other pay-
ments which it is required to make under subchapter
III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 5, United
States Code, the agency shall remit to the Office of
Personnel Management for deposit in the Treasury of
the United States to the credit of the Civil Service Re-
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tirement and Disability Fund an amount equal to 15
percent of the final basic pay of each employee of the
agency who is covered under subchapter III of chapter
83 or chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to
whom a voluntary separation incentive has been paid
under this section.
(2) DEFINITION.—For the purpose of paragraph
(1), the term ‘‘final basic pay’’, with respect to an
employee, means the total amount of basic pay which
would be payable for a year of service by such em-
ployee, computed using the employee’s final rate of
basic pay, and, if last serving on other than a full-
time basis, with appropriate adjustment therefor.
(e) EFFECT OF SUBSEQUENT EMPLOYMENT WITH THE
GOVERNMENT.—
(1) An individual who has received a voluntary
separation incentive payment under this section and
accepts any employment for compensation with the
Government of the United States, or who works for
any agency of the Government of the United States
through a personal services contract, within 5 years
after the date of the separation on which the payment
is based shall be required to pay, prior to the individ-
ual’s first day of employment, the entire amount of
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the incentive payment to the agency that paid the in-
centive payment.
(2) If the employment under paragraph (1) is
with an Executive agency (as defined by section 105
of title 5, United States Code), the United States
Postal Service, or the Postal Rate Commission, the
Director of the Office of Personnel Management may,
at the request of the head of the agency, waive the re-
payment if the individual involved possesses unique
abilities and is the only qualified applicant available
for the position.
(3) If the employment under paragraph (1) is
with an entity in the legislative branch, the head of
the entity or the appointing official may waive the
repayment if the individual involved possesses unique
abilities and is the only qualified applicant available
for the position.
(4) If the employment under paragraph (1) is
with the judicial branch, the Director of the Adminis-
trative Office of the United States Courts may waive
the repayment if the individual involved possesses
unique abilities and is the only qualified applicant
for the position.
(f) REDUCTION OF AGENCY EMPLOYMENT LEVELS.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The total number of funded
employee positions in the agency shall be reduced by
one position for each vacancy created by the separa-
tion of any employee who has received, or is due to
receive, a voluntary separation incentive payment
under this section. For the purposes of this subsection,
positions shall be counted on a full-time-equivalent
basis.
(2) ENFORCEMENT.—The President, through the
Office of Management and Budget, shall monitor the
agency and take any action necessary to ensure that
the requirements of this subsection are met.
(g) REGULATIONS.—The Office of Personnel Manage-
ment may prescribe such regulations as may be necessary
to implement this section.
UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN
AUTHORITY
SEC. 577. (a) GAO CERTIFICATION.—Not more than
30 days prior to the obligation of funds made available by
this Act for assistance for the Palestinian Authority, the
Comptroller General of the United States shall certify that
the Palestinian Authority—
(1) has adopted an acceptable accounting system
to ensure that such funds will be used for their in-
tended assistance purposes; and
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(2) has cooperated with the Comptroller General
in the certification process under this paragraph.
(b) GAO AUDITS.—Six months after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United
States shall conduct an audit to determine the extent to
which the Palestinian Authority is implementing an ac-
ceptable accounting system in tracking the use of funds
made available by this Act for assistance for the Palestinian
Authority.
SANCTIONS AGAINST SERBIA
SEC. 578. (a) CONTINUATION OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH
SANCTIONS.—The sanctions listed in subsection (b) shall re-
main in effect until January 1, 2001, unless the President
submits to the Committees on Appropriations and Foreign
Relations in the Senate and the Committees on Appropria-
tions and International Relations of the House of Rep-
resentatives a certification described in subsection (c).
(b) APPLICABLE SANCTIONS.—
(1) The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct
the United States executive directors of the inter-
national financial institutions to work in opposition
to, and vote against, any extension by such institu-
tions of any financial or technical assistance or
grants of any kind to the government of Serbia-Mon-
tenegro.
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(2) The Secretary of State should instruct the
United States Ambassador to the Organization for Se-
curity and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to block
any consensus to allow the participation of Serbia-
Montenegro in the OSCE or any organization affili-
ated with the OSCE.
(3) The Secretary of State should instruct the
United States Representative to the United Nations to
vote against any resolution in the United Nations Se-
curity Council to admit Serbia-Montenegro to the
United Nations or any organization affiliated with
the United Nations, to veto any resolution to allow
Serbia-Montenegro to assume the United Nations’
membership of the former Socialist Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia, and to take action to prevent Serbia-
Montenegro from assuming the seat formerly occupied
by the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
(4) The Secretary of State should instruct the
United States Permanent Representative on the Coun-
cil of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to op-
pose the extension of the Partnership for Peace pro-
gram or any other organization affiliated with NATO
to Serbia-Montenegro.
(5) The Secretary of State should instruct the
United States Representatives to the Southeast Euro-
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pean Cooperative Initiative (SECI) to oppose and to
work to prevent the extension of SECI membership to
Serbia-Montenegro.
(c) CERTIFICATION.—A certification described in this
subsection is a certification that—
(1) the representatives of the successor states to
the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia have suc-
cessfully negotiated the division of assets and liabil-
ities and all other succession issues following the dis-
solution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugo-
slavia;
(2) the government of Serbia-Montenegro is fully
complying with its obligations as a signatory to the
General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia
and Herzegovina;
(3) the government of Serbia-Montenegro is fully
cooperating with and providing unrestricted access to
the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia, including surrendering persons indicted
for war crimes who are within the jurisdiction of the
territory of Serbia-Montenegro, and with the inves-
tigations concerning the commission of war crimes
and crimes against humanity in Kosova;
(4) the government of Serbia-Montenegro is im-
plementing internal democratic reforms; and
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(5) Serbian, Serbian-Montenegrin federal govern-
mental officials, and representatives of the ethnic Al-
banian community in Kosova have agreed on, signed,
and begun implementation of a negotiated settlement
on the future status of Kosova.
(d) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the sense of the Con-
gress that the United States should not restore full diplo-
matic relations with Serbia-Montenegro until the President
submits to the Committees on Appropriations and Foreign
Relations in the Senate and the Committees on Appropria-
tions and International Relations in the House of Rep-
resentatives the certification described in subsection (c).
(e) EXEMPTION OF MONTENEGRO.—The sanctions de-
scribed in subsection (b)(1) should not apply to the govern-
ment of Montenegro or Kosova.
(f) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘international financial
institution’’ includes the International Monetary Fund, the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
the International Development Association, the Inter-
national Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Investment
Guaranty Agency, and the European Bank for Reconstruc-
tion and Development.
(g) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—
(1) The President may waive the application in
whole or in part, of any sanction described in sub-
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section (b) if the President certifies to the Congress
that the President has determined that the waiver is
necessary to meet emergency humanitarian needs or
to achieve a negotiated settlement of the conflict in
Kosova that is acceptable to the parties.
(2) Such a wavier may only be effective upon
certification by the President to Congress that the
United States has transferred and will continue to
transfer (subject to adequate protection of intelligence
sources and methods) to the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia all information it
has collected in support of an indictment and trial of
President Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes
against humanity, or genocide.
(3) In the event of a waiver, within seven days
the President must report the basis upon which the
waiver was made to the Select Committee on Intel-
ligence and the Committee on Foreign Relations in
the Senate, and the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence and the Committee on International Re-
lations in the House of Representatives.
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY
SEC. 579. (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds as fol-
lows:
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(1) The United States is the world leader in the
development of environmental technologies, particu-
larly clean coal technology.
(2) Severe pollution problems affecting people in
developing countries, and the serious health problems
that result from such pollution, can be effectively ad-
dressed through the application of United States tech-
nology.
(3) During the next century, developing coun-
tries, particularly countries in Asia such as China
and India, will dramatically increase their consump-
tion of electricity, and low quality coal will be a
major source of fuel for power generation.
(4) Without the use of modern clean coal tech-
nology, the resultant pollution will cause enormous
health and environmental problems leading to dimin-
ished economic growth in developing countries and,
thus, diminished United States exports to those grow-
ing markets.
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the
United States to promote the export of United States clean
coal technology. In furtherance of that policy, the Secretary
of State, the Secretary of the Treasury (acting through the
United States executive directors to international financial
institutions), the Secretary of Energy, and the Adminis-
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trator of the United States Agency for International Devel-
opment (USAID) should, as appropriate, vigorously pro-
mote the use of United States clean coal technology in envi-
ronmental and energy infrastructure programs, projects
and activities. Programs, projects and activities for which
the use of such technology should be considered include re-
construction assistance for the Balkans, activities carried
out by the Global Environmental Facility, and activities
funded from USAID’s Development Credit Authority.
SENSE OF CONGRESS ON MANAGEMENT OF UNITED STATES
INTERESTS IN UKRAINE
SEC. 580. (a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the fol-
lowing findings:
(1) Ukraine is a major European nation as it
has the second largest territory and sixth largest pop-
ulation of all the States of Europe.
(2) Ukraine has important geopolitical and eco-
nomic roles to play within Central and Eastern Eu-
rope.
(3) A strong, stable, and secure Ukraine serves
the interests of peace and stability in all of Europe,
which are important national security interests of the
United States.
(4) Ukraine is a member State of the Council of
Europe, the Organization on Security and Coopera-
tion in Europe, the Central European Initiative, and
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the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Conference, is a par-
ticipant in the Partnership for Peace program of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and has entered
into a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with
the European Union.
(5) The Government of Ukraine has clearly ar-
ticulated its country’s aspirations to become fully in-
tegrated into European and transatlantic institu-
tions, and, in pursuit of the attainment of that aspi-
ration, the government of Ukraine has requested asso-
ciate membership in the European Union with the in-
tent of eventually becoming a full member of the Eu-
ropean Union.
(6) It is the policy of the United States to sup-
port the aspiration of Ukraine to assume its rightful
place among the European and transatlantic commu-
nity of democratic States and in European and
transatlantic institutions.
(7) In the United States Government, the respon-
sibility for management of United States interests in
Ukraine would be most effectively performed by the
officials who perform the responsibility for manage-
ment of United States interests in Europe, and a des-
ignation of those officials to do so would strongly un-
derscore and most effectively support attainment of
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the United States objective to build a Europe whole
and free.
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress
that the Secretary of State should designate the Assistant
Secretary of State for European Affairs to perform, through
the Bureau of European Affairs of the Department of State,
the responsibilities of the Department of State for the man-
agement of United States interests in Ukraine.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION WITH RESPECT TO
ACQUISITION OF USAID FACILITIES
SEC. 581. (a) Funds appropriated under the heading
‘‘OPERATING
EXPENSES
OF
THE
AGENCY
FOR
INTER-
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT’’ may be made available for ac-
quisition of office space exceeding $5,000,000 of the United
States Agency for International Development only if the ap-
propriate congressional committees are notified at least 15
days in advance in accordance with the procedures applica-
ble to reprogramming notifications under section 634A of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2394–1).
(b) As used in this section, the term ‘‘acquisition’’ shall
have the same meaning as in the Foreign Service Building
Act of 1926.
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RESTRICTION ON UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE FOR CER-
TAIN
RECONSTRUCTION
EFFORTS
IN
THE
BALKANS
REGION.
SEC. 582. (a) PROHIBITION.—Except as provided in
subsection (b), none of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act for United States assistance for
reconstruction efforts in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
or any contiguous country may be used for the procurement
of, any article produced outside the United States, the re-
cipient country, or least developed countries, or any service
provided by a foreign person.
(b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply if—
(1) the provision of such assistance requires arti-
cles of a type that are produced in and services that
are available for purchase in the United States, the
recipient country, or least developed countries, or if
the cost of articles and services produced in or avail-
able from the United States and such other countries
is significantly more expensive, including the cost of
transportation, than the cost from other sources; or
(2) the President determines that the application
of subsection (a) will impair the ability of the United
States to maximize the use of United States articles
and services in such reconstruction efforts of other
donor countries, or if the President otherwise deter-
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mines that subsection (a) will impair United States
foreign assistance objectives.
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) ARTICLE.—The term ‘‘article’’ means any
agricultural commodity, steel, communications equip-
ment, farm machinery, or petrochemical refinery
equipment.
(2) FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA.—The
term ‘‘Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’’ means the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Monte-
negro) and includes Kosova.
(3) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means any foreign national, exclusive of any na-
tional of the recipient country or least developed
countries, including any foreign corporation, partner-
ship, other legal entity, organization, or association
that is beneficially owned by foreign persons or con-
trolled in fact by foreign persons.
(4) PRODUCED.—The term ‘‘produced’’, with re-
spect to an item, includes any item mined, manufac-
tured, made, assembled, grown, or extracted.
(5) SERVICE.—The term ‘‘service’’ means any
engineering, construction or telecommunications.
(6) STEEL.—The term ‘‘steel’’ includes the fol-
lowing categories of steel products: semifinished,
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plates, sheets and strips, wire rods, wire and wire
products, rail type products, bars, structural shapes
and units, pipes and tubes, iron ore, and coke prod-
ucts.
ALLOCATION OF FUNDS FOR THE IRAQ FOUNDATION.
SEC. 583. Of the funds made available by this Act for
activities of Iraqi opposition groups designated under the
Iraqi Liberation Act (Public Law 105–338), $250,000 shall
be made available for the Iraq Foundation.
SELF-DETERMINATION IN EAST TIMOR
SEC. 584. (a) The President, the Secretary of State,
the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of the Treasury
(acting through United States executive directors to inter-
national financial institutions) should immediately inten-
sify their efforts to prevail upon the Indonesian Government
and military to—
(1) disarm and disband anti-independence mili-
tias in East Timor;
(2) grant full access to East Timor by inter-
national human rights monitors, humanitarian orga-
nizations, and the press;
(3) allow Timorese who have been living in exile
to return to East Timor to campaign for and partici-
pate in the ballot; and
(4) release all political prisoners.
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(b) The President shall submit a report to Congress
not later than 15 days after passage of this Act, containing
a description of the Administration’s efforts and his assess-
ment of efforts made by the Indonesian Government and
military to fulfill the steps described in paragraph (a).
(c) The Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the
United States executive directors to international financial
institutions to take into account the extent of efforts made
by the Indonesian Government and military to fulfill the
steps described in paragraph (a), in determining their vote
on any loan or financial assistance to Indonesia.
SENSE OF THE SENATE ON THE CITIZENS DEMOCRACY
CORPS
SEC. 585. It is the sense of the Senate that with regard
to promoting economic development and open, democratic
countries in the former Soviet Union and Central Eastern
Europe, the Committee commends the work of the Citizens
Democracy Corps (CDC), which utilizes senior-level United
States business volunteers to assist enterprises, institutions,
and local governments abroad. Their work demonstrates the
significant impact that United States Agency for Inter-
national Development (USAID) support of a United States
nongovernmental organization (NGO) program can have on
the key United States foreign policy priorities of promoting
broad-based, stable economic growth and open, market-ori-
ented economies in transitioning economies. By drawing
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upon the skills and voluntary spirit of United States busi-
nessmen and women to introduce companies, CDC furthers
the goals of the Freedom of Support Act (NIS) and Support
for Eastern European Democracy (SEED), forging posi-
tive, lasting connections between the United States and
these countries. The Committee endorses CDC’s very cost-
effective programs and believes they should be supported
and expanded not only in the former Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe, but in transitioning and developing econo-
mies throughout the world.
ASSISTANCE TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
IN YUGOSLAVIA.
SEC. 586. (a) ASSISTANCE.—
(1) PURPOSE OF ASSISTANCE.—The purpose of
assistance under this subsection is to promote and
strengthen institutions of democratic government and
the growth of an independent civil society in Yugo-
slavia, including ethnic tolerance and respect for
internationally recognized human rights.
(2) AUTHORIZATION
FOR
ASSISTANCE.—The
President is authorized to furnish assistance and
other support for individuals and independent non-
governmental organizations to carry out the purpose
of paragraph (1) through support for the activities de-
scribed in paragraph (3).
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(3) ACTIVITIES
SUPPORTED.—Activities that
may be supported by assistance under paragraph (2)
include the following:
(A) Democracy building.
(B) The development of nongovernmental
organizations.
(C) The development of independent media.
(D) The development of the rule of law, a
strong, independent judiciary, and transparency
in political practices.
(E) International exchanges and advanced
professional training programs in skill areas
central to the development of civil society and a
market economy.
(F) The development of all elements of the
democratic process, including political parties
and the ability to administer free and fair elec-
tions.
(G) The development of local governance.
(H) The development of a free-market econ-
omy.
(4) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be
appropriated to the President $100,000,000 for
the period beginning October 1, 1999, and end-
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ing September 30, 2001, to carry out this sub-
section.
(B) AVAILABILITY
OF
FUNDS.—Amounts
appropriated pursuant to subparagraph (a) are
authorized to remain available until expended.
(b) PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO GOVERNMENT OF
SERBIA.—In carrying out subsection (a), the President
shall take all necessary steps to ensure that no funds or
other assistance is provided to the Government of Yugo-
slavia or to the Government of Serbia.
(c) ASSISTANCE TO GOVERNMENT OF MONTENEGRO.—
In carrying out subsection (a), the President is authorized
to provide assistance to the Government of Montenegro, if
the President determines, and so reports to the Speaker of
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the Senate, that the Government of Montenegro
is committed to, and is taking steps to promote, democratic
principles, the rule of law, and respect for internationally
recognized human rights.
FOREIGN MILITARY TRAINING REPORT
SEC. 587. (a) The Secretary of Defense and the Sec-
retary of State shall jointly provide to the Congress by Jan-
uary 31, 2000 a report on all military training provided
to foreign military personnel (excluding sales) administered
by the Department of Defense and the Department of State
during fiscal years 1999 and 2000, including those pro-
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posed for fiscal year 2000. This report shall include, for
each such military training activity, the foreign policy jus-
tification and purpose for the training activity, the cost of
the training activity, the number of foreign students trained
and their units of operation, and the location of the train-
ing. In addition, this report shall also include, with respect
to United States personnel, the operational benefits to
United States forces derived from each such training activ-
ity and the United States military units involved in each
such training activity. This report may include a classified
annex if deemed necessary and appropriate.
(b) For purposes of this section a report to Congress
shall be deemed to mean a report to the Appropriations and
Foreign Relations Committees of the Senate and the Appro-
priations and International Relations Committees of the
House of Representatives.
CONTROL AND ELIMINATE THE INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM
OF TUBERCULOSIS
SEC. 588. (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that:
(1) Since the development of antibiotics in the
1950’s, tuberculosis has been largely controlled in the
United States and the Western World.
(2) Due to societal factors, including growing
urban decay, inadequate health care systems, per-
sistent poverty, overcrowding, and malnutrition, as
well as medical factors, including the HIV/AIDS epi-
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demic and the emergence of multi-drug resistant
strains of tuberculosis, tuberculosis has again become
a leading and growing cause of adult deaths in the
developing world.
(3) 
According 
to 
the 
World 
Health
Organization—
(A) in 1998, about 1,860,000 people world-
wide died of tuberculosis-related illnesses;
(B) one-third of the world’s total population
is infected with tuberculosis; and
(C) tuberculosis is the world’s leading killer
of women between 15 and 44 years old and is a
leading cause of children becoming orphans.
(4) Because of the ease of transmission of tuber-
culosis, its international persistence and growth pose
a direct public health threat to those nations that had
previously largely controlled the disease. This is com-
plicated in the United States by the growth of the
homeless population, the rate of incarceration, inter-
national travel, immigration, and HIV/AIDS.
(5) With nearly 40 percent of the tuberculosis
cases in the United States attributable to foreign-born
persons, tuberculosis will never be eliminated in the
United States until it is controlled abroad.
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(6) The means exist to control tuberculosis
through screening, diagnosis, treatment, patient com-
pliance, monitoring, and ongoing review of outcomes.
(7) Efforts to control tuberculosis are com-
plicated by several barriers, including—
(A) the labor intensive and lengthy process
involved in screening, detecting, and treating the
disease;
(B) a lack of funding, trained personnel,
and medicine in virtually every nation with a
high rate of the disease; and
(C) the unique circumstances in each coun-
try, which requires the development and imple-
mentation of country-specific programs.
(8) Eliminating the barriers to the international
control of tuberculosis through a well-structured, com-
prehensive, and coordinated worldwide effort would be
a significant step in dealing with the increasing pub-
lic health problem posed by the disease.
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Sen-
ate that if the total allocation for this Act is higher than
the level passed by the Senate, a top priority for the addi-
tional funds should be to increase the funding to combat
infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis.
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TO PROMOTE AN INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRANSFERS
REGIME
SEC. 589. (a) EFFORTS.—The President shall continue
and expand efforts through the United Nations and other
international fora, including the Wassenaar Arrangement,
to limit arms transfers worldwide. The President shall take
the necessary steps to begin multilateral negotiations within
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, for
the purpose of establishing a permanent multilateral regime
to govern the transfer of conventional arms, particularly
transfers to countries—
(1) that engage in persistent violations of human
rights, engage in acts of armed aggression in viola-
tion of international law, and do not fully participate
in the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms;
and
(2) in regions in which arms transfers would ex-
acerbate regional arms races or international tensions
that present a danger to international peace and sta-
bility.
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 6 months
after the commencement of the negotiations under subsection
(a), and not later than the end of every 6-month period
thereafter until an agreement described in subsection (a) is
concluded, the President shall report to the appropriate
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committees of the Congress on the progress made during
these negotiations.
EXPANDED THREAT REDUCTION INITIATIVE
SEC. 590. It is the sense of the Senate that the pro-
grams contained in the Expanded Threat Reduction Initia-
tive are vital to the national security of the United States
and that funding for those programs should be restored in
conference to the levels requested in the President’s budget.
SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING UNITED STATES COM-
MITMENTS UNDER THE UNITED STATES-NORTH KO-
REAN AGREED FRAMEWORK
SEC. 591. It is the sense of the Senate that, as long
as North Korea meets its obligations under the United
States-North Korean Nuclear Agreed Framework of 1994,
the United States should meet its commitments under the
Agreed Framework, including required deliveries of heavy
fuel oil to North Korea and support of the Korean Penin-
sula Energy Development Organization (KEDO).
EXPANDED THREAT REDUCTION INITIATIVE
SEC. 592. The Senate finds that:
(1) The proposed programs under the Expanded
Threat Reduction Initiative (ETRI) are critical and
essential to preserving United States national secu-
rity.
(2) The Department of State programs under the
ETRI be funded at or near the full request of
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$250,000,000 in the Foreign Operations Appropria-
tions Act for Fiscal Year 2000 prior to final passage.
SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING AN INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON THE BALKANS.
SEC. 593. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate makes the fol-
lowing findings:
(1) The United States and its allies in the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conducted
large-scale military operations against the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
(2) At the conclusion of 78 days of these hos-
tilities, the United States and its NATO allies sus-
pended military operations against the Federal Re-
public of Yugoslavia based upon credible assurances
by the latter that it would fulfill the following condi-
tions as laid down by the so called Group of Eight
(G–8):
(A) An immediate and verifiable end of vio-
lence and repression in Kosova.
(B) Staged withdrawal of all Yugoslav mili-
tary, police, and paramilitary forces from
Kosova.
(C) Deployment in Kosova of effective inter-
national and security presences, endorsed and
adopted by the United Nations Security Council,
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and capable of guaranteeing the achievement of
the agreed objectives.
(D) Establishment of an interim adminis-
tration for Kosova, to be decided by the United
Nations Security Council which will seek to en-
sure conditions for a peaceful and normal life for
all inhabitants in Kosova.
(E) Provision for the safe and free return of
all refugees and displaced persons from Kosova
and an unimpeded access to Kosova by humani-
tarian aid organizations.
(3) These objectives appear to have been fulfilled,
or to be in the process of being fulfilled, which has led
the United States and its NATO allies to terminate
military operations against the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia.
(4) The G–8 also called for a comprehensive ap-
proach to the economic development and stabilization
of the crisis region, and the European Union has an-
nounced plans for $1,500,000,000 over the next 3
years for the reconstruction of Kosova, for the con-
vening in July of an international donors’ conference
for Kosova aid, and for subsequent provision of recon-
struction aid to the other countries in the region af-
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fected by the recent hostilities followed by reconstruc-
tion aid directed at the Balkans region as a whole.
(5) The United States and some of its NATO al-
lies oppose the provision of any aid, other than lim-
ited humanitarian assistance, to Serbia until Yugo-
slav President Slobodan Milosevic is out of office.
(6) The policy of providing reconstruction aid to
Kosova and other countries in the region affected by
the recent hostilities while withholding such aid for
Serbia presents a number of practical problems, in-
cluding the absence in Kosova of financial and other
institutions independent of Yugoslavia, the difficulty
in drawing clear and enforceable distinctions between
humanitarian and reconstruction assistance, and the
difficulty in reconstructing Montenegro in the absence
of similar efforts in Serbia.
(7) In any case, the achievement of effective and
durable economic reconstruction and revitalization in
the countries of the Balkans is unlikely until a polit-
ical settlement is reached as to the final status of
Kosova and Yugoslavia.
(8) The G–8 proposed a political process towards
the establishment of an interim political framework
agreement for a substantial self-government for
Kosova, taking into full account the final Interim
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Agreement for Peace and Self-Government in Kosova,
also known as the Rambouillet Accords, and the prin-
ciples of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other coun-
tries of the region, and the demilitarization of the
UCK (Kosova Liberation Army).
(9) The G–8 proposal contains no guidance as to
a final political settlement for Kosova and Yugo-
slavia, while the original position of the United
States and the other participants in the so-called
Contact Group on this matter, as reflected in the
Rambouillet Accords, called for the convening of an
international conference, after 3 years, to determine a
mechanism for a final settlement of Kosova status
based on the will of the people, opinions of relevant
authorities, each Party’s efforts regarding the imple-
mentation of the agreement and the provisions of the
Helsinki Final Act.
(10) The current position of the United States
and its NATO allies as to the final status of Kosova
and Yugoslavia calls for an autonomous, multiethnic,
democratic Kosova which would remain as part of
Serbia, and such an outcome is not supported by any
of the Parties directly involved, including the govern-
ments of Yugoslavia and Serbia, representatives of the
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Kosovar Albanians, and the people of Yugoslavia, Ser-
bia and Kosova.
(11) There has been no final political settlement
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the Armed Forces of the
United States, its NATO allies, and other non-Balkan
nations have been enforcing an uneasy peace since
1996, at a cost to the United States alone of over
$10,000,000,000, with no clear end in sight to such
enforcement.
(12) The trend throughout the Balkans since
1990 has been in the direction of ethnically based
particularism, as exemplified by the 1991 declara-
tions of independence from Yugoslavia by Slovenia
and Croatia, and the country in the Balkans which
currently comes the closest to the goal of a democratic
government which respects the human rights of its
citizens is the nation of Slovenia, which was the first
portion of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
to secede and is also the nation in the region with the
greatest ethnic homogeneity, with a population which
is 91 percent Slovene.
(13) The boundaries of the various national and
sub-national divisions in the Balkans have been al-
tered repeatedly throughout history, and international
conferences have frequently played the decisive role in
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fixing such boundaries in the modern era, including
the Berlin Congress of 1878, the London Conference of
1913, and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
(14) The development of an effective exit strategy
for the withdrawal from the Balkans of foreign mili-
tary forces, including the armed forces of the United
States, its NATO allies, Russia, and any other nation
from outside the Balkans which has such forces in the
Balkans is in the best interests of all such nations.
(15) The ultimate withdrawal of foreign military
forces, accompanied by the establishment of durable
and peaceful relations among all of the nations and
peoples of the Balkans is in the best interests of those
nations and peoples.
(16) An effective exit strategy for the withdrawal
from the Balkans of foreign military forces is contin-
gent upon the achievement of a lasting political settle-
ment for the region, and that only such a settlement,
acceptable to all parties involved, can ensure the fun-
damental goals of the United States of peace, sta-
bility, and human rights in the Balkans;
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Sen-
ate that—
(1) the United States should call immediately for
the convening of an international conference on the
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Balkans, under the auspices of the United Nations,
and based upon the principles of the Rambouillet Ac-
cords for a final settlement of Kosova status, namely
that such a settlement should be based on the will of
the people, opinions of relevant authorities, each Par-
ty’s efforts regarding the implementation of the agree-
ment and the provisions of the Helsinki Final Act;
(2) the international conference on the Balkans
should also be empowered to seek a final settlement for
Bosnia-Herzegovina based on the same principles as
specified for Kosova in the Rambouillet Accords; and
(3) in order to produce a lasting political settle-
ment in the Balkans acceptable to all parties, which
can lead to the departure from the Balkans in timely
fashion of all foreign military forces, including those
of the United States, the international conference
should have the authority to consider any and all of
the following: political boundaries; humanitarian and
reconstruction assistance for all nations in the Bal-
kans; stationing of United Nations peacekeeping
forces along international boundaries; security ar-
rangements and guarantees for all of the nations of
the Balkans; and tangible, enforceable and verifiable
human rights guarantees for the individuals and peo-
ples of the Balkans.
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INTERNATIONAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR OPPOSITION-
CONTROLLED AREAS OF SUDAN
SEC. 594. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
of the funds made available under chapter 9 of part I of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (relating to inter-
national disaster assistance) for fiscal year 2000, up to
$4,000,000 should be made available for rehabilitation and
economic recovery in opposition-controlled areas of Sudan.
Such funds are to be used to improve economic governance,
primary education, agriculture, and other locally-deter-
mined priorities. Such funds are to be programmed and
implemented jointly by the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Department of Agriculture,
and may be utilized for activities which can be implemented
for a period of up to two years.
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE FOR SUDANESE INDIGENOUS
GROUPS
SEC. 595. The President, acting through the appro-
priate Federal agencies, is authorized to provide humani-
tarian assistance, including food, directly to the National
Democratic Alliance participants and the Sudanese Peo-
ple’s Liberation Movement operating outside of the Oper-
ation Lifeline Sudan structure.
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DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FOR OPPOSITION-CONTROLLED
AREAS OF SUDAN
SEC. 596. (a) INCREASE IN DEVELOPMENT ASSIST-
ANCE.—The President, acting through the United States
Agency for International Development, is authorized to in-
crease substantially the amount of development assistance
for capacity building, democracy promotion, civil adminis-
tration, judiciary, and infrastructure support in opposi-
tion-controlled areas of Sudan.
(b) QUARTERLY REPORT.—The President shall submit
a report on a quarterly basis to the Congress on progress
made in carrying out subsection (a).
SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING COLOMBIA
SEC. 597. (a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the fol-
lowing findings:
(1) Colombia is a democratic country fighting
multiple wars—
(A) a war against the Colombian Revolu-
tionary Armed Forces (FARC);
(B) a war against the National Liberation
Army (ELN);
(C) a war against paramilitary organiza-
tions; and
(D) a war against drug lords who traffic in
deadly cocaine and heroin.
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(2) Colombia is the world’s third most dangerous
country in terms of political violence with 34 percent
of world terrorist acts committed there.
(3) Colombia is the world’s kidnaping capital of
the world with 2,609 kidnapings reported in 1998
and 513 reported in the first three months of 1999.
(4) In 1998 alone, 308,000 Colombians were in-
ternally displaced in Colombia. Over the last decade,
35,000 Colombians have been killed.
(5) The FARC and ELN are the two main guer-
rilla groups which have waged the longest-running
antigovernment insurgency in Latin America.
(6) The Colombian rebels have a combined
strength of 10,000 to 20,000 full-time guerrillas; they
have initiated armed action in nearly 700 of the
country’s 1073 municipalities, and control or influ-
ence roughly 60 percent of rural Colombia including
a demilitarized zone using their armed stranglehold
to abuse Colombian citizens.
(7) Although the Colombian Army has 122,000
soldiers, there are roughly only 20,000 soldiers avail-
able for offensive combat operations.
(8) Colombia faces the threat of the armed
paramilitaries, 5,000 strong, who are constantly driv-
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ing a wedge in the peace process by their insistence
in participating in the peace talks.
(9) More than 75 percent of the world’s cocaine
HCL and 75 percent of the heroin seized in the north-
east United States is of Colombian origin.
(10) The conflicts in Colombia are creating
spillovers to the border countries of Venezuela, Pan-
ama and Ecuador: Venezuela has sent 30,000 troops
to its border and Ecuador is sending 10,000 troops to
its border.
(11) Venezuela is our number one supplier of oil.
(12) By the end of 1999, all United States mili-
tary troops will have departed from Panama, leaving
the Panama Canal unprotected.
(13) In 1998, two-way trade between the United
States and Colombia was more than $11,000,000,000,
making the United States Colombia’s number one
trading partner and Colombia the fifth largest market
for United States exports in the region.
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Sen-
ate that—
(1) the United States should recognize the crisis
in Colombia and play a more proactive role in its
resolution;
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(2) the United States should mobilize the inter-
national community to proactively engage in resolv-
ing Colombian wars; and
(3) the United States should pledge our political
support to help Colombia with the peace process.
ACCOUNTABILITY OF SADDAM HUSSEIN
SEC. 598. It is the sense of the Senate that the Presi-
dent and the Secretary of State should—
(1) raise the need for accountability of Saddam
Hussein and several key members of his regime at the
International Criminal Court Preparatory Commis-
sion, which will meet in New York on July 26, 1999,
through August 13, 1999;
(2) continue to push for the creation of a com-
mission under the auspices of the United Nations to
establish an international record of the criminal cul-
pability of Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials;
(3) continue to push for the United Nations to
form an international criminal tribunal for the pur-
pose of indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Sad-
dam Hussein and any other Iraqi officials who may
be found responsible for crimes against humanity,
genocide, and other violations of international hu-
manitarian law; and
(4) upon the creation of a commission and inter-
national criminal tribunal, take steps necessary, in-
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cluding the reprogramming of funds, to ensure United
States support for efforts to bring Saddam Hussein
and other Iraqi officials to justice.
SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING ASSISTANCE PROVIDED
TO LITHUANIA, LATVIA, AND ESTONIA
SEC. 599. It is the sense of the Senate that nothing
in this Act, or Senate Report Number 106–81, relating to
assistance provided to Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
under the Foreign Military Financing Program, should be
interpreted as expressing the will of the Senate to accelerate
membership of those nations into the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO).
CONSULTATIONS ON ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN
SEC. 599A. Consistent with the intent of Congress ex-
pressed in the enactment of section 3(b) of the Taiwan Rela-
tions Act, the Secretary of State shall consult with the ap-
propriate 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 de-
fense articles and services to be made available to Taiwan.
SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING ASSISTANCE UNDER
THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS.
SEC. 599B. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate makes the fol-
lowing findings:
(1) Egypt and Israel together negotiated the
Camp David Accords, an historic breakthrough in be-
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ginning the process of bringing peace to the Middle
East.
(2) As part of the Camp David Accords, a con-
cept was reached regarding the ratio of United States
foreign assistance between Egypt and Israel, a for-
mula which has been followed since the signing of the
Accords.
(3) The United States is reducing economic as-
sistance to Egypt and Israel, with the agreement of
those nations.
(4) The United States is committed to maintain-
ing proportionality between Egypt and Israel in
United States foreign assistance programs.
(5) Egypt has consistently fulfilled an historic
role of peacemaker in the context of the Arab-Israeli
disputes.
(6) The recent elections in Israel offer fresh hope
of resolving the remaining issues of dispute in the re-
gion.
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Sen-
ate that the United States should provide Egypt access to
an interest bearing account as part of the United States
foreign assistance program pursuant to the principles of
proportionality which underlie the Camp David Accords.
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AUTHORIZATIONS
SEC. 599C. The Secretary of the Treasury may, to ful-
fill commitments 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 in-
crease of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency,
and the first general capital increase of the Inter-American
Investment Corporation; (2) contribute on behalf of the
United States to the eighth replenishment of the resources
of the African Development Fund and the twelfth replenish-
ment of the International Development Association. The fol-
lowing 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 capital, of the African Develop-
ment Bank; $29,870,087 for paid-in capital, and
$139,365,533 for callable capital, of the Multilateral Invest-
ment Guarantee Agency; $125,180,000 for paid-in capital
of 
the 
Inter-American 
Investment 
Corporation;
$300,000,000 for the African Development Fund; and
$2,410,000,000 for the International Development Associa-
tion.
WORKING CAPITAL FUND
SEC. 599D. Section 635 of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2395) is amended by adding a new sub-
section (l) as follows:
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‘‘(l)(1) There is hereby established a working capital
fund for the United States Agency for International Devel-
opment which shall be available without fiscal year limita-
tion for the expenses of personal and nonpersonal services,
equipment and supplies for: (A) International Cooperative
Administrative Support Services; (B) central information
technology, library, audiovisual and administrative sup-
port services; (C) medical and health care of participants
and others; and (D) such other functions which the Admin-
istrator of such agency, with the approval of the Office of
Management and Budget, determines may be provided more
advantageously and economically as central services.
‘‘(2) The Capital of the fund shall consist of the fair
and reasonable value of such supplies, equipment and other
assets pertaining to the functions of the fund as the Admin-
istrator determines and any appropriations made available
for the purpose of providing capital, less related liabilities.
‘‘(3) The fund shall be reimbursed or credited with ad-
vance payments for services, equipment or supplies pro-
vided from the fund from applicable appropriations and
funds of the agency, other Federal agencies and other
sources authorized by section 607 of this Act at rates that
will recover total expenses of operation, including accrual
of annual leave and depreciation. Receipts from the dis-
posal of, or payments for the loss or damage to, property
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held in the fund, rebates, reimbursements, refunds and other
credits applicable to the operation of the fund may be depos-
ited in the fund.
‘‘(4) The agency shall transfer to the Treasury as mis-
cellaneous receipts as of the close of the fiscal year such
amounts which the Administrator determines to be in excess
of the needs of the fund.
‘‘(5) The fund may be charged with the current value
of supplies and equipment returned to the working capital
of the fund by a post, activity or agency and the proceeds
shall be credited to current applicable appropriations.’’.
DEVELOPMENT CREDIT AUTHORITY PROGRAM ACCOUNT
SEC. 599E. For the cost of direct loans and loan guar-
antees, up to $7,500,000 to be derived by transfer from
funds appropriated by this Act to carry out part I of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and funds ap-
propriated by this Act under the heading, ‘‘ASSISTANCE FOR
EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALTIC STATES’’, to remain
available until expended, as authorized by section 635 of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided, That such
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974: Provided further, That for administrative expenses
to carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, up
to $500,000 of this amount may be transferred to and
merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Operating Expenses of
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the Agency for International Development’’: Provided fur-
ther, That the provisions of section 107A(d) (relating to
general provisions applicable to the Development Credit Au-
thority) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as contained
in section 306 of H.R. 1486 as reported by the House Com-
mittee on International Relations on May 9, 1997, shall
be applicable to direct loans and loan guarantees provided
under this heading.
SILK ROAD STRATEGY ACT OF 1999.
SEC. 599F. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be
cited as the ‘‘Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999’’.
(b) AMENDMENT OF THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE OF
1961.—Part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the
following new chapter:
‘‘CHAPTER 12—SUPPORT FOR THE ECO-
NOMIC 
AND 
POLITICAL 
INDEPEND-
ENCE OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE
SOUTH CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA
‘‘SEC. 499. UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE TO PROMOTE REC-
ONCILIATION 
AND 
RECOVERY 
FROM 
RE-
GIONAL CONFLICTS.
‘‘(a) PURPOSE OF ASSISTANCE.—The purposes of as-
sistance under this section include—
‘‘(1) the creation of the basis for reconciliation
between belligerents;
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‘‘(2) the promotion of economic development in
areas of the countries of the South Caucasus and Cen-
tral Asia impacted by civil conflict and war; and
‘‘(3) the encouragement of broad regional co-
operation among countries of the South Caucasus and
Central Asia that have been destabilized by internal
conflicts.
‘‘(b) AUTHORIZATION FOR ASSISTANCE.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To carry out the purposes of
subsection (a), the President is authorized to provide
humanitarian assistance and economic reconstruction
assistance for the countries of the South Caucasus and
Central Asia to support the activities described in
subsection (c).
‘‘(2) DEFINITION
OF
HUMANITARIAN
ASSIST-
ANCE.—In this subsection, the term ‘humanitarian
assistance’ means assistance to meet humanitarian
needs, including needs for food, medicine, medical
supplies and equipment, education, and clothing.
‘‘(c) ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—Activities that may be
supported by assistance under subsection (b) include—
‘‘(1) providing for the humanitarian needs of
victims of the conflicts;
‘‘(2) facilitating the return of refugees and inter-
nally displaced persons to their homes; and
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‘‘(3) assisting in the reconstruction of residential
and economic infrastructure destroyed by war.
‘‘SEC. 499A. ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE.
‘‘(a) PURPOSE OF ASSISTANCE.—The purpose of as-
sistance under this section is to foster economic growth and
development, including the conditions necessary for regional
economic cooperation, in the South Caucasus and Central
Asia.
‘‘(b) AUTHORIZATION FOR ASSISTANCE.—To carry out
the purpose of subsection (a), the President is authorized
to provide assistance for the countries of the South Caucasus
and Central Asia to support the activities described in sub-
section (c).
‘‘(c) ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—In addition to the ac-
tivities described in section 498, activities supported by as-
sistance under subsection (b) should support the develop-
ment of the structures and means necessary for the growth
of private sector economies based upon market principles.
‘‘SEC. 499B. DEVELOPMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
‘‘(a) PURPOSE OF PROGRAMS.—The purposes of pro-
grams under this section include—
‘‘(1) to develop the physical infrastructure nec-
essary for regional cooperation among the countries of
the South Caucasus and Central Asia; and
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‘‘(2) to encourage closer economic relations and
to facilitate the removal of impediments to cross-bor-
der commerce among those countries and the United
States and other developed nations.
‘‘(b) AUTHORIZATION FOR PROGRAMS.—To carry out
the purposes of subsection (a), the following types of pro-
grams for the countries of the South Caucasus and Central
Asia may be used to support the activities described in sub-
section (c):
‘‘(1) Activities by the Export-Import Bank to
complete the review process for eligibility for financ-
ing under the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945.
‘‘(2) The provision of insurance, reinsurance, fi-
nancing, or other assistance by the Overseas Private
Investment Corporation.
‘‘(3) Assistance under section 661 of this Act (re-
lating to the Trade and Development Agency).
‘‘(c) ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—Activities that may be
supported by programs under subsection (b) include pro-
moting actively the participation of United States compa-
nies and investors in the planning, financing, and construc-
tion of infrastructure for communications, transportation,
including air transportation, and energy and trade includ-
ing highways, railroads, port facilities, shipping, banking,