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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 331
To prohibit foreign assistance to Russia unless certain requirements relating
to Russian intelligence activities, relations between Russia and certain
countries, Russian arms control policy, and the reform of the Russian
economy are met.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 7, 1997
Mr. SOLOMON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Commit-
tee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on
Banking and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To prohibit foreign assistance to Russia unless certain re-
quirements relating to Russian intelligence activities, re-
lations between Russia and certain countries, Russian
arms control policy, and the reform of the Russian econ-
omy are met.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Freedom and Self-De-
termination for the Former Soviet Union Act’’.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO RUSSIA.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Foreign assistance may not be ob-
ligated or expended for Russia for any fiscal year unless
the President certifies to the Congress for such fiscal year
the following:
(1) The President has received satisfactory as-
surances from the Government of Russia, which
have been confirmed by the Director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, that the intelligence activi-
ties of Russia in the United States are confined to
what is considered routine, non-adversarial informa-
tion gathering activities.
(2) Russia is making continual progress toward
the unconditional implementation of the Russian-
Moldovan troop withdrawal agreement, signed by the
prime ministers of Russia and Moldova on October
21, 1994.
(3) Russia is not providing military assistance
to any military forces in the Transdniestra region of
Moldova.
(4) Russian military forces in the Kaliningrad
region of Russia are respecting the sovereign terri-
tory of Lithuania and other neighboring countries
and such forces are not offensively postured against
any other country.
(5) The activities of Russia in the other inde-
pendent states of the former Soviet Union do not
represent an attempt by Russia to violate or other-
wise diminish the sovereignty and independence of
such states.
(6) Russia is not providing military assistance
to any Bosnian Serb military units or combatants or
to the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugo-
slavia.
(7) Russia is not providing any intelligence in-
formation to Cuba and is not providing any assist-
ance to Cuba with respect to the signal intelligence
facility at Lourdes or the nuclear facility at Cienfue-
gos.
(8)(A) Russia is not providing to the countries
described in subparagraph (B) goods or technology,
including conventional weapons, which could materi-
ally contribute to the acquisition by these countries
of chemical, biological, nuclear, or advanced conven-
tional weapons.
(B) The countries described in this subpara-
graph are Iran, Iraq, Syria, the People’s Republic of
China, or any country, the government of which the
Secretary of State has determined, for purposes of
section 6(j)(1) of the Export Administration Act of
1979 (50 U.S.C. app. 2405(6)(j)(1)), has repeatedly
provided support for acts of international terrorism.
(9) Russia is in strict compliance with all arms
control agreements to which Russia and the United
States are a party.
(10) Russia has ceased all strategic nuclear
weapons modernization.
(11) Russia is in strict compliance with all
trade and financial agreements between Russia and
any United States business.
(b) REPORT.—The President shall submit to the Con-
gress for each fiscal year a report containing the certifi-
cations required by subsection (a). Such report shall be
submitted in unclassified and classified versions.
SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORTS.
At the beginning of each fiscal year, the President
and the Comptroller General of the United States shall
each submit to the Congress a report containing the fol-
lowing:
(1) The amount of foreign assistance provided
to Russia for the preceding fiscal year, including—
(A) the name of each organization or en-
tity to which such assistance was provided;
(B) the purpose of such assistance; and
(C) an assessment of the effectiveness of
such assistance.
(2) A detailed accounting of the amount of for-
eign assistance appropriated for Russia which has
not been expended and the status of such assistance.
(3) An estimate of the total amount of capital
exported from Russia during the previous fiscal year
and an analysis of the reasons for the export of such
capital.
SEC. 4. REQUIREMENT TO OPPOSE ASSISTANCE TO RUSSIA
FROM INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITU-
TIONS.
The President should instruct the United States exec-
utive director of each international financial institution to
use the voice and vote of the United States to oppose any
assistance from that financial institution to Russia unless
Russia is in compliance with the requirements contained
in section 2.
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act:
(1) FOREIGN ASSISTANCE.—The term ‘‘foreign
assistance’’ means assistance under the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.), the
Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democ-
racies and Open Markets Support Act of 1992 (22
(4) OTHER
INDEPENDENT
STATES
OF
THE
FORMER
SOVIET
UNION.—The term ‘‘other inde-
pendent states of the former Soviet Union’’ means
the following: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Esto-
nia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lith-
uania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine,
and Uzbekistan.
SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection
(b), this Act shall apply only with respect to fiscal years
beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this
Act.
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—In the case of the fiscal year in
which this Act is enacted—
(1) the prohibition contained in section 2 shall
apply with respect to the obligation or expenditure
of foreign assistance on or after the date of the en-
actment of this Act (including foreign assistance
which has been obligated but not expended before
the date of the enactment of this Act); and
(2) the requirement contained in section 4 shall
apply with respect to the provision of assistance by
an international financial institution on or after the
date of the enactment of this Act.
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