In the Senate of the United States,
November 22, 1993.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 3000) entitled ‘‘An Act for reform in emerging
new democracies and support and help for improved partner-
ship with Russia, Ukraine, and other new independent states
of the former Soviet Union’’, do pass with the following
AMENDMENT:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLES.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Act For Reform In
Emerging New Democracies and Support and Help for Im-
proved Partnership with Russia, Ukraine, and Other New
Independent States’’ or as the ‘‘FRIENDSHIP Act’’.
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short titles.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. Definition.
TITLE I—POLICY OF FRIENDSHIP AND COOPERATION
Sec. 101. Statement of purpose.
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Sec. 102. Findings.
Sec. 103. Statutory provisions that have been applicable to the Soviet Union.
TITLE II—TRADE AND BUSINESS RELATIONS
Sec. 201. Policy under Export Administration Act.
Sec. 202. Representation of countries of Eastern Europe and the Independent
States of the former Soviet Union in legal commercial trans-
actions.
Sec. 203. Procedures regarding transfers of certain Department of Defense-funded
items.
Sec. 204. Soviet slave labor.
TITLE III—CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND OTHER EXCHANGE
PROGRAMS
Sec. 301. Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961.
Sec. 302. Soviet-Eastern European research and training.
Sec. 303. Fascell Fellowship Act.
Sec. 304. Board for International Broadcasting Act.
Sec. 305. Scholarship programs for developing countries.
Sec. 306. Report on Soviet participants in certain exchange programs.
TITLE IV—ARMS CONTROL
Sec. 401. Arms Control and Disarmament Act.
Sec. 402. Arms Export Control Act.
Sec. 403. Annual reports on arms control matters.
Sec. 404. United States/Soviet direct communication link.
TITLE V—DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Sec. 501. Personnel levels and limitations.
Sec. 502. Other provisions related to operation of embassies and consulates.
Sec. 503. Foreign Service Buildings Act.
TITLE VI—OCEANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Sec. 601. Arctic Research and Policy Act.
Sec. 602. Fur seal management.
Sec. 603. Global climate protection.
TITLE VII—REGIONAL AND GENERAL DIPLOMATIC ISSUES
Sec. 701. United Nations assessments.
Sec. 702. Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Sec. 703. Angola.
Sec. 704. Self determination of the people from the Baltic States.
Sec. 705. Obsolete references in Foreign Assistance Act.
Sec. 706. Review of United States policy toward the Soviet Union.
TITLE VIII—INTERNAL SECURITY; WORLDWIDE COMMUNIST
CONSPIRACY
Sec. 801. Civil defense.
Sec. 802. Report on Soviet press manipulation in the United States.
Sec. 803. Subversive Activities Control Act.
Sec. 804. Report on Soviet and international communist behavior.
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TITLE IX—MISCELLANEOUS
Sec. 901. Ballistic missile tests near Hawaii.
Sec. 902. Nondelivery of international mail.
Sec. 903. State-sponsored harassment of religious groups.
Sec. 904. Murder of Major Arthur Nicholson.
Sec. 905. Monument to honor victims of communism.
SEC. 3. DEFINITION.
As used in this Act (including the amendments made
by this Act), the terms ‘‘independent states of the former
Soviet Union’’ and ‘‘independent states’’ have the meaning
given those terms by section 3 of the Freedom for Russia
and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets
Support Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5801).
TITLE I—POLICY OF FRIENDSHIP
AND COOPERATION
SEC. 101. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to amend or repeal numer-
ous statutory provisions that restrict or otherwise impede
normal relations between the United States and the Russian
Federation, Ukraine, and the other independent states of
the former Soviet Union. All of the statutory provisions
amended or repealed by this Act were relevant and appro-
priate at the time of enactment, but with the end of the
Cold War, they have become obsolete. It is not the purpose
of this Act to rewrite or erase history, or to forget those
who suffered in the past from the injustices or repression
of communist regimes in the Soviet Union, but rather to
update United States law to reflect changed international
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circumstances and to demonstrate for reformers and demo-
crats in the independent states of the former Soviet Union
the resolve of the people of the United States to support the
process of democratic and economic reform and to conduct
business with those states in a new spirit of friendship and
cooperation.
SEC. 102. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds and declares as follows:
(1) The Vancouver Declaration issued by Presi-
dent Clinton and President Yeltsin in April 1993
marked a new milestone in the development of the
spirit of cooperation and partnership between the
United States and Russia. The Congress affirms its
support for the principles contained in the Vancouver
Declaration.
(2) The Vancouver Declaration underscored
that—
(A) a dynamic and effective partnership be-
tween the United States and Russia is vital to
the success of Russia’s historic transformation;
(B) the rapid integration of Russia into the
community of democratic nations and the world
economy is important to the national interest of
the United States; and
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(C) cooperation between the United States
and Russia is essential to the peaceful resolution
of international conflicts and the promotion of
democratic values, the protection of human
rights, and the solution of global problems such
as environmental pollution, terrorism, and nar-
cotics trafficking.
(3) The Congress enacted the FREEDOM Sup-
port Act (Public Law 102–511), as well as other legis-
lation such as the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction
Act of 1991 (title II of Public Law 102–228) and the
Former Soviet Union Demilitarization Act of 1992
(title XIV of Public Law 102–484), to help meet the
historic opportunities and challenges presented by the
transformation that has taken place, and is continu-
ing to take place, in what once was the Soviet Union.
(4) The process of reform in Russia, Ukraine,
and the other independent states of the former Soviet
Union is ongoing. The holding of a referendum in
Russia on April 25, 1993, that was free and fair, and
that reflected the support of the Russian people for the
process of continued and strengthened democratic and
economic reform, represents an important and en-
couraging hallmark in this ongoing process.
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(5) There remain in force many United States
laws that are relics of the Cold War, and repeals or
revisions of these provisions can play an important
role in efforts to foster and strengthen the bonds of
trust and friendship, as well as mutually beneficial
trade and economic relations, between the United
States and Russia, the United States and Ukraine,
and the United States and the other independent
states of the former Soviet Union.
SEC. 103. STATUTORY PROVISIONS THAT HAVE BEEN APPLI-
CABLE TO THE SOVIET UNION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are numerous statutory pro-
visions that were enacted in the context of United States
relations with a country, the Soviet Union, that are fun-
damentally different from the relations that now exist be-
tween the United States and Russia, between the United
States and Ukraine, and between the United States and the
other independent states of the former Soviet Union.
(b) EXTENT OF SUCH PROVISIONS.—Many of the pro-
visions referred to in subsection (a) imposed limitations
specifically with respect to the Soviet Union, and its con-
stituent republics, or utilized language that reflected the
tension that existed between the United States and the So-
viet Union at the time of their enactment. Other such provi-
sions did not refer specifically to the Soviet Union, but