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‘‘SEC. 11. SPECIAL DEBT RELIEF FOR THE POOREST, MOST HEAVILY
INDEBTED COUNTRIES.
‘‘(a) DEBT REDUCTION AUTHORITY.—The President may reduce
amounts of principle and interest owed by any eligible country
to the Bank as a result of loans or guarantees made under this
Act.
‘‘(b) LIMITATIONS.—
‘‘(1) TYPES OF DEBT REDUCTION.—The authority provided
by subsection (a) may be exercised only to implement multilat-
eral agreements to reduce the burden of official bilateral debt
as set forth in the minutes of the so-called ‘Paris Club’ (also
known as ‘Paris Club Agreed Minutes’).
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES.—
‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—As used in subsection (a), the term
‘eligible country’ means any country that—
‘‘(i) has excessively burdensome external debt;
‘‘(ii) is eligible to borrow from the International
Development Association; and
‘‘(iii) is not eligible to borrow from the Inter-
national Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
‘‘(B) DETERMINATIONS.—Subject to subparagraph (A),
the President may determine whether a country is an
eligible country for purposes of subsection (a).
‘‘(c) CONDITIONS.—The authority provided by this section may
be exercised only with respect to a country whose government—
‘‘(1) does not have an excessive level of military expendi-
tures;
‘‘(2) has not repeatedly provided support for acts of inter-
national terrorism;
‘‘(3) is not failing to cooperate on international narcotics
control matters; and
‘‘(4) (including its military or other security forces) does
not engage in a consistent pattern of gross violations of inter-
nationally recognized human rights.
‘‘(d) APPROPRIATIONS.—The authority provided by subsection
(a) may be exercised only in such amounts or to such extent as
is provided in advance in appropriations Acts.’’.
(c) SENSE
OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that
the President should seriously consider requesting debt reduction
funds sufficient to provide debt reduction to eligible countries in
accordance with the so-called ‘‘Trinidad Terms’’.
GUARANTEES
SEC. 571. Section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by inserting after subpara-
graph (2)(F) the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(G) NET GUARANTEE COSTS.—The net costs for fiscal year
1994 of the appropriation made under section 601 of Public Law
102–391 are not subject to the discretionary spending limits or
the Appropriations Committee’s Foreign Operations Subcommittee’s
602(b) allocation in fiscal year 1994.’’.
FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING DIRECT COMMERCIAL SALES POLICY
SEC. 572. The Secretary of Defense shall not implement changes
in longstanding policy allowing use of Foreign Military Financing
for direct commercial sales unless and until all parties affected
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by any such changes have been fully consulted and given oppor-
tunity for input into any such policy changes.
In this process the Secretary of Defense shall also consult
with the Committees on Appropriations, the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the
Committees on Armed Services, and the relevant agencies or depart-
ments of the Executive Branch.
PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS THAT EX-
PORT
LETHAL
MILITARY
EQUIPMENT
TO
COUNTRIES
SUPPORTING
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
SEC. 573. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act may be available to any foreign govern-
ment which provides lethal military equipment to a country the
government of which the Secretary of State has determined is
a terrorist government for purposes of section 40(d) of the Arms
Export Control Act. The prohibition under this section with respect
to a foreign government shall terminate 12 months after that
government ceases to provide such military equipment. This section
applies with respect to lethal military equipment provided under
a contract entered into after the date of enactment of this Act.
(b) Assistance restricted by subsection (a) or any other similar
provision of law, may be furnished if the President determines
that furnishing such assistance is important to the national
interests of the United States.
(c) Whenever the waiver of subsection (b) is exercised, the
President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees
a report with respect to the furnishing of such assistance. Any
such report shall include a detailed explanation of the assistance
to be provided, including the estimated dollar amount of such
assistance, and an explanation of how the assistance furthers
United States national interests.
WITHHOLDING OF ASSISTANCE FOR PARKING FINES OWED BY FOREIGN
COUNTRIES
SEC. 574. (a) IN GENERAL.—Of the funds made available for
a foreign country under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961, an amount equivalent to 110 percent of the total unpaid
fully adjudicated parking fines and penalties owed to the District
of Columbia by such country as of the date of enactment of this
Act shall be withheld from obligation for such country until the
Secretary of State certifies and reports in writing to the appropriate
congressional committees that such fines and penalties are fully
paid to the government of the District of Columbia.
(b) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’ means the Committee on Foreign
Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and
the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives.
UKRAINE/RUSSIA STABILIZATION PARTNERSHIPS
SEC. 575. Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the
headings ‘‘Assistance for the New Independent States of the Former
Soviet Union’’ and ‘‘Operations and Maintenance, Defense Agen-
cies’’, and allocated under section 560(a) paragraphs (1) and (6),
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$35,000,000 should be made available for a program of cooperation
between scientific and engineering institutes in the New Independ-
ent States of the former Soviet Union and national laboratories
and other qualified academic institutions in the United States
designed to stabilize the technology base in the cooperating states
as each strives to convert defense industries to civilian applications:
Provided, That priority be assigned to programs in support of inter-
national agreements that prevent and reduce proliferation of weap-
ons of mass destruction: Provided further, That the President may
enter into agreements involving private United States industry
that include cost share arrangements where feasible: Provided fur-
ther, That the President may participate in programs that enhance
the safety of power reactors: Provided further, That the intellectual
property rights of all parties to a program of cooperation be pro-
tected: Provided further, That funds made available by this section
may be reallocated in accordance with the authority of section
560(b) of this Act.
RUSSIAN ASSISTANCE TO CUBA
SEC. 576. Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the
headings ‘‘Assistance for the New Independent States of the Former
Soviet Union’’ and ‘‘Operations and Maintenance, Defense Agen-
cies’’, $380,000,000 shall not be available for obligation for Russia
unless the President certifies on April 1, 1994, that the Government
of Russia has not provided assistance to Cuba during the preceding
eighteen months: Provided, That funds may be furnished without
regard to the provisions of this section if the President determines
that to do so is in the national interest.
RESTRICTION ON ASSISTANCE FOR RUSSIA
SEC. 577. (a) PROHIBITION.—None of the funds appropriated
or otherwise made available by this Act (other than funds to carry
out humanitarian assistance) may be available in any fiscal year
for Russia unless the President has certified to the Congress not
more than 6 months in advance of the obligation or expenditure
of such funds that—
(1) the Government of Russia and the Governments of
Latvia and Estonia have established a timetable for the with-
drawal of the armed forces of Russia and the Commonwealth
of Independent States, and all parties are complying with such
timetable; or
(2) Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States
continue to make substantial progress toward the withdrawal
of their armed forces from Latvia and Estonia.
(b) TERMINATION OF CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.—Subsection
(a) shall remain in force until the President certifies to the Congress
that all of the armed forces of Russia and the Commonwealth
of Independent States have withdrawn from Latvia and Estonia
or that the status of those armed forces has been otherwise resolved
by mutual agreement of the parties.
MIDDLE EAST PEACE FACILITATION ACT
SEC. 578. (a) Until February 15, 1994, the President shall
have the authority to waive section 307 of the Foreign Assistance
Act, as amended, with respect to the Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion (PLO), programs for the PLO, and programs for the benefit
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of entities associated with it, which accept the commitments made
by the PLO on September 9, 1993: Provided, That before exercising
this authority, the President shall consult with the relevant commit-
tees of the Senate and the House of Representatives: Provided
further, That the President determines, and notifies Congress that
to do so is in the national interest.
(b) Subsection (a) shall cease to have effect if at any time
prior to February 15, 1994, the President determines and so notifies
Congress that the PLO has ceased to comply with the commitments
it made on September 9, 1993, or the Congress, by joint resolution,
determines that the PLO has ceased to comply with the commit-
ments it made on September 9, 1993.
RUSSIAN REFORM
SEC. 579. (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—
(1) President Yeltsin has consistently tried to push forward
economic and political reform;
(2) President Yeltsin was given a mandate by the Russian
people to hold elections and continue the process of economic
reform;
(3) Boris Yeltsin is the first and only popularly elected
president of Russia, and the parliament of Russia is a holdover
from the Soviet regime;
(4) the conservative parliament has consistently impeded
political and economic progress in Russia;
(5) slow progress on economic reform has prompted the
IMF to review its disbursement of Russia’s second tranche
from the Systemic Transformation Facility;
(6) political and economic reform has been impeded by
the actions of the hardline parliament; and
(7) corruption is rampant and is impeding economic and
political reform and must be vigorously and effectively com-
bated.
(b) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the Congress
that—
(1) the Congress supports President Yeltsin in his effort
to continue the reform process in Russia, including his call
for new parliamentary elections consistent with the results
of the April 25, 1993 referendum; and
(2) further United States Government economic assistance
should be provided in accordance with President Yeltsin’s call
for the holding of free, fair, and democratic parliamentary
elections.
Titles I through V of this Act may be cited as the ‘‘Foreign
Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropria-
tions Act, 1994’’.
TITLE VI—FISCAL YEAR 1993 SUPPLEMENTAL
APPROPRIATIONS
The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1993, and for other purposes, namely:
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FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
ASSISTANCE FOR THE NEW INDEPENDENT STATES OF THE FORMER
SOVIET UNION
For an additional amount for the ‘‘Assistance for the new
independent states of the former Soviet Union’’ and for related
programs, $630,000,000, to be available upon enactment and to
remain available until expended, of which not to exceed
$500,000,000 may be made available for a special privatization
and restructuring fund: Provided, That the United States contribu-
tion for such fund shall not exceed one-quarter of the aggregate
amount being made available for such fund by all countries: Pro-
vided further, That the provisions of section 498B(j) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 shall apply to funds appropriated by this
paragraph.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE AGENCIES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and maintenance,
Defense Agencies’’, $979,000,000, to be available upon enactment
and to remain available until September 30, 1994: Provided, That
the Secretary of Defense may transfer such funds to other appro-
priations available to the Department of Defense for the purposes
of providing assistance to the new independent states of the former
Soviet Union: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense may
transfer such funds to appropriations available to the Department
of State and other agencies of the United States Government for
the purposes of providing assistance and related programs for the
new independent states of the former Soviet Union for programs
that the President determines will increase the national security
of the United States: Provided further, That the amounts trans-
ferred shall be available subject to the same terms and conditions
as the appropriations to which transferred: Provided further, That
the authority to make transfers pursuant to this provision is in
addition to any other transfer authority of the Department of
Defense.