I
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2707
To restrict United States assistance of any kind to Turkey until Turkey
uses its influence with the Turkish Cypriot leadership to achieve a
settlement on Cyprus based on United Nations Security Council resolu-
tions.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 1, 2001
Mr. PAYNE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on International Relations
A BILL
To restrict United States assistance of any kind to Turkey
until Turkey uses its influence with the Turkish Cypriot
leadership to achieve a settlement on Cyprus based on
United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) In 1974 Turkey illegally invaded Cyprus
and subsequently occupied over a third of the island.
(2) 2001 marks twenty-seven years of continued
illegal Turkish military occupation of Cyprus despite
universal international condemnation.
(3) The Turkish military has obstructed efforts
to reach a just and lasting resolution of the division
of the island and the massive uprooting and ethnic
cleansing of Greek Cypriots caused by the 1974
Turkish invasion.
(4) Turkey, in a May 10, 2001 judgment of the
European Court of Human Rights, was found re-
sponsible for massive violations of human rights as
a result of the continuing occupation by Turkey of
the northern part of Cyprus.
(5) Turkey’s illegal invasion in 1974 violated
the United Nations Charter, the NATO Treaty, and
customary international law.
(6) Talks have been held under United Nations
auspices to reach a settlement based on ‘‘a state of
Cyprus with a single sovereignty and international
personality and a single citizenship in a bizonal,
bicommunal federation’’ and that such a settlement
has been unanimously adopted by the international
community but is rejected by Turkey and the Turk-
ish Cypriot leader, Mr. Rauf Denktash.
(7) Successive rounds of proximity talks sup-
ported by the G–8, the United Nations Security
Council and the European Union under United Na-
tions auspices have made little progress, and efforts
to hold substantive discussions in 2001 are being
thwarted by new unproductive and unacceptable
‘‘recognition’’ demands by Mr. Denktash, supported
by Turkey.
(8) The Cyprus Government has actively en-
gaged in the search for a settlement, as evidenced by
the constructive participation by Cyprus in United
Nations-sponsored proximity talks.
(9) Turkey has had several financial crises over
the past decades, including two within the past six
months.
(10) At present, Turkey contributes approxi-
mately $350,000,000 annually in direct economic
support to the illegal regime in the occupied area of
Cyprus and several hundred million dollars for sup-
port of its occupation troops and settlers.
(11) The continuing unresolved Cyprus issue
prevents normal relations between NATO allies,
Greece and Turkey.
(12) Tension between Greece and Turkey con-
tributes to instability in Southeast Europe and the
Eastern Mediterranean.
(13) The United States has an important stake
in fostering good relations between two NATO allies,
Greece and Turkey.
SEC. 2. RESTRICTION ON ASSISTANCE.
United States assistance of any kind shall not be pro-
vided to Turkey until Turkey uses its influence with the
Turkish Cypriot leadership to achieve a settlement on Cy-
prus that calls for the following:
(1) A resumption of the proximity talks within
the agreed procedure and framework and based on
good faith negotiations.
(2) A solution set forth in United Nations reso-
lutions, based on ‘‘a state of Cyprus with a single
sovereignty and international personality and a sin-
gle citizenship in a bizonal, bicommunal federation’’
embodying the fundamental constitutional and
democratic principles common in Western democ-
racies, compatible with the Human Rights Conven-
tion 
and 
Protocols, 
the 
European 
Acquis
Communautaire and international law.
(3) The immediate demilitarization of Cyprus.
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