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(2) restitution should be made in a timely man-
ner if they are to be of any benefit to the many Hol-
ocaust survivors who are in their eighties or older; 
and 
(3) the President and the Secretary of State 
should engage, as appropriate—
(A) in an open dialogue with the Govern-
ment of Poland supporting the adoption of leg-
islation requiring the fair, comprehensive, and 
nondiscriminatory restitution of or compensa-
tion for private property that was seized and 
confiscated; and 
(B) in follow-up discussions with the Gov-
ernment of Poland regarding the status and im-
plementation of such legislation. 
SEC. 1429. CHILD LABOR PRACTICES IN THE COCOA SEC-
TORS OF COTE D’IVOIRE AND GHANA. 
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the Government of the Republic of Cote 
d’Ivoire and the Government of the Republic of 
Ghana should be commended for the tangible steps 
they have taken to address the situation of child 
labor in the cocoa sector;
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(2) the Government of Cote d’Ivoire and the 
Government of Ghana should consider child labor 
and forced labor issues top priorities; 
(3) the chocolate industry signatories to the 
September 19, 2001, voluntary Protocol for the 
Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their 
Derivative Products in a Manner that Complies with 
ILO Convention 182 Concerning the Prohibition and 
Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst 
Forms of Child Labor should meet the sixth and 
final pillar of the Protocol, to ‘‘develop and imple-
ment credible, mutually-acceptable, voluntary, indus-
try-wide standards of public certification, consistent 
with applicable federal law, that cocoa beans and 
their derivative products have been grown and/or 
processed without any of the worst forms of child 
labor’’ by July 1, 2005; 
(4) the chocolate industry, nongovernmental or-
ganizations, and the Government of Cote d’Ivoire 
and the Government of Ghana should continue their 
efforts in full force beyond July 1, 2005, to develop 
and implement a system to monitor child labor in 
the cocoa industry of Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana; 
(5) the Office to Monitor and Combat Traf-
ficking in Persons of the Department of State
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should include information on the association be-
tween trafficking in persons and the cocoa industries 
of Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, and other cocoa producing 
regions in the annual trafficking in persons report to 
Congress; and 
(6) the Department of State should assist the 
Government of Cote d’Ivoire and the Government of 
Ghana in preventing the trafficking of persons into 
the cocoa fields and other industries in West Africa. 
SEC. 1430. CONTRIBUTIONS OF IRAQI KURDS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Iraqi Kurdish forces played a unique and 
significant role in the fight to liberate Iraq for all 
Iraqis in 2003. 
(2) Since Iraq’s liberation, Iraqi Kurdish lead-
ers have played prominent and constructive roles in 
the drafting and passage of the Transitional Admin-
istrative Law and, more generally, in seeking to 
achieve a free, stable, and democratic Iraq. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that—
(1) Iraqi Kurds should be commended for their 
many contributions and sacrifices made in the cause 
of creating a free, stable, and democratic Iraq; and
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(2) the Iraqi Transitional Government and the 
Kurdistan Regional Government are expected to ad-
here to the highest standards of democratic govern-
ance, including through enforcement of full equality 
and rights for all religious and ethnic minorities, 
such as Assyrians and Turcomans. 
SEC. 1431. PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE. 
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the Secretary of State should strive to ex-
pand and strengthen the Proliferation Security Ini-
tiative announced on May 31, 2003, by President 
George W. Bush, placing particular emphasis on in-
cluding countries outside of the North Atlantic Trea-
ty Organization (NATO); and 
(2) the United States should seek an inter-
national instrument, in the form of a United Na-
tions Security Council resolution, multilateral treaty, 
or other agreement, to enhance international co-
operation with the Proliferation Security Initiative 
regarding the interdiction, seizure, and impound-
ment in international waters and airspace of illicit 
shipments of weapons of mass destruction and their 
delivery systems and of related materials, equipment, 
and technology.
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SEC. 1432. SECURITY OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND MATE-
RIALS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the President should 
seek to devise and implement standards to improve the 
security of nuclear weapons and materials by— 
(1) establishing with other willing nations a set 
of guidelines containing performance-based stand-
ards for the security of nuclear weapons and mate-
rials; 
(2) negotiating with those nations agreements 
to adopt guidelines containing performance-based 
standards and implement appropriate verification 
measures to assure ongoing compliance; 
(3) coordinating with those nations and the 
International Atomic Energy Agency to strongly en-
courage other nations to adopt and verifiably imple-
ment the standards; and 
(4) encouraging all nations to work with the 
International Atomic Energy Agency to complete the 
negotiation, adoption, and implementation of its pro-
posed series of documents related to the security of 
nuclear materials. 
SEC. 1433. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND GENO-
CIDE IN DARFUR, SUDAN. 
Based upon the adoption of resolutions on July 22, 
2004, by both the House of Representatives and the Sen-
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ate and the declaration on September 9, 2004, by former 
Secretary of State Colin Powell that the atrocities unfold-
ing in Darfur, Sudan, are genocide, it is the sense of Con-
gress 
that, 
notwithstanding 
the 
American 
Servicemembers’ Protection Act of 2002 (title II of the 
2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Re-
covery From and Response To Terrorist Attacks on the 
United States; Public Law 107–206), the United States 
should render assistance to the efforts of the International 
Criminal Court to bring to justice persons accused of 
genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity in 
Darfur, Sudan, provided that legally binding assurances 
have been received from the United Nations Security 
Council or the International Criminal Court that no cur-
rent or former United States Government official, em-
ployee (including any contractor), member of the United 
States Armed Forces, or United States national will be 
subject to prosecution by the International Criminal Court 
in connection with those efforts. 
SEC. 1434. ACTION AGAINST AL-MANAR TELEVISION. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that—
(1) in 1996, the Secretary of State designated 
Hizballah as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) 
under section 219 of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act;