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guarantees, as the President may determine, for which
funds have been appropriated or otherwise made available
for programs within the International Affairs Budget Func-
tion 150, including the cost of selling, reducing, or canceling
amounts owed to the United States as a result of
concessional loans made to eligible countries, pursuant to
parts IV and V of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and
of modifying concessional credit agreements with least de-
veloped countries, as authorized under section 411 of the
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of
1954, as amended, and concessional loans, guarantees and
credit agreements, as authorized under section 572 of the
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Pro-
grams Appropriations Act, 1989 (Public Law 100–461),
and of canceling amounts owed, as a result of loans or guar-
antees made pursuant to the Export-Import Bank Act of
1945, by countries that are eligible for debt reduction pursu-
ant to title V of H.R. 3425 as enacted into law by section
1000(a)(5) of Public Law 106–113, $95,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2007: Provided, That not less
than $20,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this
heading shall be made available to carry out the provisions
of part V of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided
further, That $75,000,000 of the funds appropriated under
this heading may be used by the Secretary of the Treasury
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to pay to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)
Trust Fund administered by the International Bank for Re-
construction and Development amounts for the benefit of
countries that are eligible for debt reduction pursuant to
title V of H.R. 3425 as enacted into law by section
1000(a)(5) of Public Law 106–113: Provided further, That
amounts paid to the HIPC Trust Fund may be used only
to fund debt reduction under the enhanced HIPC initiative
by—
(1) the Inter-American Development Bank;
(2) the African Development Fund;
(3) the African Development Bank; and
(4) the Central American Bank for Economic In-
tegration:
Provided further, That funds may not be paid to the HIPC
Trust Fund for the benefit of any country if the Secretary
of State has credible evidence that the government of such
country is engaged in a consistent pattern of gross viola-
tions of internationally recognized human rights or in mili-
tary or civil conflict that undermines its ability to develop
and implement measures to alleviate poverty and to devote
adequate human and financial resources to that end: Pro-
vided further, That on the basis of final appropriations, the
Secretary of the Treasury shall consult with the Committees
on Appropriations concerning which countries and inter-
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LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS
SEC. 5016. Subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations, funds appro-
priated under this Act or any previously enacted Act mak-
ing appropriations for foreign operations, export financing,
and related programs, which are returned or not made
available for organizations and programs because of the im-
plementation of section 307(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961, shall remain available for obligation until Sep-
tember 30, 2006.
INDEPENDENT STATES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
SEC. 5017. (a) None of the funds appropriated under
the heading ‘‘Assistance for the Independent States of the
Former Soviet Union’’ shall be made available for assist-
ance for a government of an Independent State of the former
Soviet Union if that government directs any action in vio-
lation of the territorial integrity or national sovereignty of
any other Independent State of the former Soviet Union,
such as those violations included in the Helsinki Final Act:
Provided, That such funds may be made available without
regard to the restriction in this subsection if the President
determines that to do so is in the national security interest
of the United States.
(b) None of the funds appropriated under the heading
‘‘Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet