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are routinely received by human rights organizations
from Laogai prisoners and survivors.
(5) Negotiations about unfettered access to
Laogai prisoners between the Chinese Government
and the International Red Cross have ceased.
(6) The Laogai is in reality a huge system of
forced labor camps in which political and penal
criminals are slave laborers producing an array of
products for export throughout the world, including
the United States.
(7) The Chinese Government continues to main-
tain, as part of its official propaganda and in defi-
ance of significant evidence to the contrary gathered
by many human rights organizations, that the
Laogai is a prison system like any other in the
world.
(8) Testimony delivered before the Subcommit-
tee on International Operations and Human Rights
of the Committee on International Relations of the
House of Representatives has documented human
rights abuses in the Laogai which continue to this
day.
(9) The American people have repeatedly ex-
pressed their abhorrence of forced labor camps sys-
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tems, whether they be operated by the Nazis, Soviet
Communists, or any other political ideology.
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the
Congress that the President should—
(1) publicly condemn the continued existence of
the Laogai, and call upon the Government of the
People’s Republic of China to dismantle it, and re-
lease all of its political prisoners; and
(2) instruct the appropriate diplomatic rep-
resentatives of the United States to cause a resolu-
tion condemning the Laogai to be put before the
United Nations Human Rights Commission and
work for its passage.
SEC. 2704. CONCERNING THE USE OF FUNDS TO FURTHER
NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH VIETNAM.
It is the sense of the Congress that none of the funds
authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available
by this Act may be obligated or expended to further nor-
malize diplomatic relations between the United States and
Vietnam, until Vietnam—
(1) releases all of its political and religious pris-
oners;
(2) accounts for American POWs and MIAs
from the Vietnam War;
(3) holds democratic elections; and
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(4) institutes policies which protect human
rights.
SEC. 
2705. 
DECLARATION 
OF 
CONGRESS 
REGARDING
UNITED 
STATES 
GOVERNMENT 
HUMAN
RIGHTS POLICY TOWARD CHINA.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress makes the following
findings:
(1) According to the 1994 State Department
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices there
continue to be ‘‘widespread and well-documented
human rights abuses in China, in violation of inter-
nationally accepted norms . . . (including) arbitrary
and lengthy incommunicado detention, torture, and
mistreatment of prisoners. The regime continued se-
vere restrictions on freedoms of speech, press assem-
bly and association, and tightened controls on the
exercise of these rights during 1994. Serious human
rights abuses persisted in Tibet and other areas pop-
ulated by ethnic minorities’’.
(2) The President, in announcing his decision
on Most Favored Nation trading status for China in
May 1994 stated that, ‘‘China continues to commit
very serious human rights abuses. Even as we en-
gage the Chinese on military, political, and economic
issues, we intend to stay engaged with those in
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China who suffer from human rights abuses. The
United States must remain a champion of their lib-
erties’’.
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the
Congress that the President should take the following ac-
tions:
(1) Decline the invitation to visit China until
and unless there is dramatic overall progress on
human rights in China and Tibet and communicate
to the Government of China that such a visit cannot
take place without such progress. Indications of
overall progress would include the release of hun-
dreds of political, religious, and labor activists; an
agreement to allow unhindered confidential access to
prisoners by international humanitarian agencies;
enactment of major legal reforms such as an end to
all restrictions on the exercise of freedom of religion,
revocation of the 1993 state security law, and the
abolition of all so-called ‘‘counter-revolutionary’’
crimes; and a decision to allow unrestricted access to
Tibet by foreign media and international human
rights monitors.
(2) Seek to develop an agreement on a multilat-
eral strategy to promote human rights in China with
other members of the G–7, beginning with the meet-
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ing of the G–7 industrial partners scheduled for
June 1995 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Such an agree-
ment should include efforts to encourage greater co-
operation by the Government of China with the
human rights rapporteurs and working groups of the
United Nations Human Rights Commission, as well
as bilateral and multilateral initiatives to secure the
unconditional release of imprisoned peaceful pro-de-
mocracy advocates such as Wei Jingsheng.
(3) Instruct the United States delegates to the
United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women
in September 1995 to vigorously and publicly sup-
port nongovernmental organizations that may be
subjected to harassment or to restrictions or limita-
tions on their activities, access to the media, or to
channels of communication during the conference by
the Government of China and to protest publicly and
privately any actions by the Government of China
aimed at punishing or repressing Chinese citizens
who seek to peacefully express their views or com-
municate with foreign citizens or media during or
following the United Nations Conference.
(4) Extend an invitation to the Dalai Lama to
visit Washington, District of Columbia, in 1995.
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(c) UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
POLICY TOWARD CHINA.—It shall be the policy of the
United States Government to continue to promote inter-
nationally recognized human rights and worker rights in
China and Tibet. The President shall submit the following
reports on the formulation and implementation of United
States human rights policy toward China and the results
of that policy to the International Relations Committee of
the House of Representatives:
(1) Not later than 90 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the President shall report on
the status of the ‘‘new United States Human Rights
Policy for China’’ announced by the President on
May 26, 1994, including an assessment of the imple-
mentation and effectiveness of the policy in bringing
about human rights improvements in China and
Tibet, with reference to the following specific initia-
tives announced on that date:
(A) High-level dialogue on human rights.
(B) Voluntary principles in the area of
human rights for United States businesses op-
erating in China.
(C) Increased contact with and support for
groups and individuals in China promoting law
reform and human rights.
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(D) Increased exchanges to support human
rights law reform in China.
(E) The practice of all United States offi-
cials who visit China to meet with the broadest
possible spectrum of Chinese citizens.
(F) Increased efforts to press United
States views on human rights in China at the
United Nations, the United Nations Human
Rights Commission, and other international or-
ganizations.
(G) A plan of international actions to ad-
dress Tibet’s human rights problems and to
promote substantive discussions between the
Dalai Lama and the Chinese Government.
(H) Efforts to use the 1995 United Na-
tions Women’s Conference in Beijing to expand
freedoms of speech, association, and assembly,
as well as the rights of women, in China.
(I) An information strategy for promoting
human rights by expanding Chinese and Ti-
betan language broadcasts on the Voice of
America and establishing Radio Free Asia.
(J) Encouraging the Chinese Government
to permit international human rights groups to
operate in and visit China.
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(2) Not later than 120 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the President shall report on
the status of Chinese Government compliance with
United States laws prohibiting the importation into
the United States of forced labor products, including
(but not limited to) a complete assessment and re-
port on the implementation of the Memorandum of
Understanding signed by the United States and
China in 1992. The report shall include (but not be
limited to) the following:
(A) All efforts made by the United States
Customs Service from 1992 until the date of
the report to investigate forced labor exports
and to conduct unannounced unrestricted in-
spections of suspected forced labor sites in
China, and the extent to which Chinese authori-
ties cooperated with such investigations.
(B) Recommendations of what further
steps might be taken to enhance United States
effectiveness in prohibiting forced labor exports
to the United States from China.
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SEC. 2706. CONCERNING THE UNITED NATIONS VOL-
UNTARY FUND FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE.
It is the sense of the Congress that the President,
acting through the United States Permanent Representa-
tive to the United Nations, should—
(1) request the United Nations Voluntary Fund
for Victims of Torture—
(A) to find new ways to support and pro-
tect treatment centers that are carrying out re-
habilitative services for victims of torture; and
(B) to encourage the development of new
such centers;
(2) use the voice and vote of the United States
to support the work of the Special Rapporteur on
Torture and the Committee Against Torture estab-
lished under the Convention Against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment; and
(3) use the voice and vote of the United States
to establish a country rapporteur or similar proce-
dural mechanism to investigate human rights viola-
tions in a country if either the Special Rapporteur
or the Committee Against Torture indicates that a
systematic practice of torture is prevalent in that
country.
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