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(1) SECRETARY
OF
STATE.—For fiscal year 
2010, the Secretary of State shall submit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a report on the 
1969 Act of Free Choice, the current political status 
of West Papua, and the extent to which the Govern-
ment of Indonesia has implemented and included the 
leadership and the people of West Papua in the de-
velopment and administration of Special Autonomy. 
(2) PRESIDENT.—For each of fiscal years 2010 
and 2011, the President shall transmit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a report that con-
tains a description of the extent to which the Gov-
ernment of Indonesia has certified that it has halted 
human rights abuses in West Papua. 
SEC. 1124. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO SOVIET NU-
CLEAR TESTS AND KAZAKHSTAN’S COMMIT-
MENT TO NONPROLIFERATION. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) In 1991, immediately after achieving inde-
pendence, Kazakhstan closed and sealed the world’s 
second largest nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk 
which had been inherited from the former Soviet 
Union and at which more than 500 nuclear tests 
had been conducted from 1949 to 1991. 
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(2) The cumulative power of explosions from 
those tests, conducted above ground, on the ground, 
and underground is believed to be equal to the power 
of 20,000 explosions of the type of bomb dropped on 
Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. 
(3) More than 1,500,000 people in Kazakhstan 
suffered because of decades of Soviet nuclear weap-
ons testing in the region. 
(4) A horrifying array of disease will continue 
to destroy the lives of hundreds of thousands and 
their descendants for many generations to come as 
a result of these tests. 
(5) Since its independence, Kazakhstan has 
constructed a stable and peaceful state, voluntarily 
disarmed the world’s fourth largest nuclear arsenal, 
joined 
the 
Strategic 
Arms 
Reduction 
Treaty 
(START), and within the frameworks of the Cooper-
ative Threat Reduction program the government of 
Kazakhstan, in cooperation with the United States 
Government, conducted a very successful secret op-
eration, code-named Project Sapphire, as a result of 
which 581 kilograms (1,278 pounds) of highly en-
riched uranium enough to produce 20–25 nuclear 
warheads were removed from Kazakhstan. 
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(6) Because of the successful cooperation be-
tween the Governments of the United States and 
Kazakhstan, the last lethal weapon was removed 
from Kazakhstan in April 1995. 
(7) Kazakhstan, allegiant to its commitment to 
nonproliferation, in December 2004 signed with the 
United States an amendment to the bilateral agree-
ment on the nonproliferation of weapons of mass de-
struction which will move the two nations towards a 
new level of cooperation in preventing the threat of 
bio-terrorism. 
(8) By its actions, Kazakhstan has proven itself 
not only as a universally recognized leader and one 
of the key members in the nonproliferation process, 
but also as a reliable and consistent ally of the 
United States in reducing nuclear threats and pre-
venting lethal weapons from being acquired by ter-
rorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda. 
(9) Recently Kazakhstan has also offered to 
host an international nuclear fuel bank where low- 
enriched uranium would be stored in accordance 
with the highest international standards for safety, 
security, and safeguards. 
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(10) The Norwegian Defence Research Estab-
lishment is also working with Kazakhstan to 
strengthen nuclear security and nonproliferation. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the people of Kazakhstan and its Govern-
ment should be congratulated for their commitment 
to nonproliferation and their leadership in offering 
to host an international nuclear fuel bank; and 
(2) the Secretary of State should work to estab-
lish a joint working group with the Governments of 
Kazakhstan and Norway to explore common chal-
lenges and opportunities on disarmament and non- 
proliferation, and to assist in assessing the environ-
mental damage and health effects caused by Soviet 
nuclear testing in Semipalatinsk. 
SEC. 1125. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON HOLOCAUST-ERA 
PROPERTY RESTITUTION AND COMPENSA-
TION. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) countries in Central and Eastern Europe 
which have not already done so must return looted 
and confiscated properties to their rightful owners 
or, where restitution is not possible, pay equitable 
compensation, in accordance with principles of jus-
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tice and in an expeditious manner that is trans-
parent and fair; 
(2) countries in Central and Eastern Europe 
must enact and implement appropriate restitution 
and compensation legislation to facilitate private, 
communal, and religious property restitution; and 
(3) countries in Central and Eastern Europe 
must ensure that such restitution and compensation 
legislation establishes a simple, transparent, and 
timely process, so that such process results in a real 
benefit to those individuals who suffered from the 
unjust confiscation of their property. 
Æ 
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