available financing programs to provide adequate financ-
ing of United States and Ethiopian commercial ventures, 
including programs of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, the Small Business Administration 
(including the Export Express and Export Working Cap-
ital programs), the Overseas Private Investment Corpora-
tion (including the Small Business Center and the Small 
and Medium Enterprise and Structural Finance pro-
grams), and the Export-Import Bank of the United States 
(including the Short-Term Africa Pilot Program). 
SEC. 6. ENSURING GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR HUMAN 
RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY, AND ECONOMIC DE-
VELOPMENT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethi-
opia is an important United States partner in the 
Horn of Africa region, whose stability is vital to 
United States interests in East Africa and the Mid-
dle East. 
(2) Ethiopia has been a strong United States 
ally in the fight against global terrorism by its par-
ticipation in the coalition of the willing in Iraq.
(3) Ethiopia has a strong military, which has 
been involved in international peacekeeping oper-
ations since the Korean conflict in the 1950s. 
(4) Two ethnically-based opposition groups— 
the Oromo Liberation Front and the Ogadeni Na-
tional Liberation Front—have been committed to 
waging an armed struggle against the Government 
of Ethiopia, but the incidence of actual armed at-
tacks has been limited and sporadic. 
(5) Historically a nation with a large Christian 
majority, 
Ethiopia 
has 
experienced 
significant 
growth in its Muslim population, and Christians and 
Muslims for the first time are nearly equal in num-
bers, which places this key East African nation on 
a religious fault line that will require proactive ef-
forts to minimize conflict. 
(b) SUSPENSION OF JOINT SECURITY ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) SUSPENSION.—The President shall suspend 
all joint security activities of the Government of the 
United States with the Government of Ethiopia, in-
cluding activities through the U.S. East Africa 
Counterterrorism Initiative until such time as the 
certification described in paragraph (2) is made in 
accordance with such paragraph.
(2) 
CERTIFICATION.—The 
certification 
de-
scribed in this subsection is a certification by the 
President to Congress that the Government of Ethi-
opia is observing international standards of human 
rights and enforcing the principle of the rule of law, 
especially by conducting a credible investigation of 
the killing of civilian protesters by security forces, as 
well as trying or releasing detainees and granting 
access for detainees to their families, counsel, and 
the International Red Cross. 
(c) 
RESOLUTION
OF
THE
ETHIOPIA-ERITREA 
BOUNDARY DISPUTE.— 
(1) DECLARATION
OF
POLICY.—Congress de-
clares that the current stalemate in the border dis-
pute between Ethiopia and Eritrea has the potential 
to lead to conflict and must be addressed. 
(2) PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE.— 
(A) PROHIBITION.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), funds available to any de-
partment of agency of the Government of the 
United States may not be made available for 
assistance for the central Governments of Ethi-
opia or Eritrea unless the Secretary of State 
certifies and reports to the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate that the central Government of Ethiopia 
or Eritrea, as the case may be, is taking steps 
to comply with the terms of the Algiers Agree-
ments. 
(B) EXCEPTION.—Subparagraph (A) does 
not apply to assistance for democracy, rule of 
law, peacekeeping programs and activities, child 
survival and health, basic education, and agri-
culture programs. 
(d) DEMOCRACY ENHANCEMENT.— 
(1) ASSISTANCE.—United States technical as-
sistance for democracy promotion in Ethiopia may 
be made available to the ruling party as well as op-
position parties in Ethiopia. 
(2) RESTRICTION.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Non-essential United 
States assistance may not be made available to 
the Government of Ethiopia if the Government 
of Ethiopia acts to obstruct United States tech-
nical assistance for opposition parties in Ethi-
opia. 
(B) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 
term ‘‘non-essential United States assistance’’ 
means assistance under any provision of law,
other than humanitarian assistance, assistance 
under emergency food programs, assistance to 
combat HIV/AIDS, and other health care as-
sistance, including assistance for fistula treat-
ment, health service planning, training, delivery 
and reporting, post-partum hemorrhage, safe 
motherhood, and abandonment of harmful tra-
ditional practices. 
(e) SUPPORT FOR OLF REINTEGRATION.—In light 
of recent reports that the Oromo Liberation Front in 
Ethiopia may be prepared to abandon its armed struggle 
and participate in the democratic process, it is the sense 
of Congress that the Government of the United States 
should encourage the Government of Ethiopia to take ad-
vantage of this opportunity to enter into discussions with 
the Oromo Liberation Front to bring them into full par-
ticipation in the political and economic affairs of Ethiopia, 
including their legalization as a political party, and the 
Government of the United States should provide such as-
sistance as is warranted and necessary to help achieve this 
goal. 
SEC. 7. REPORT. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the President shall transmit a report 
to Congress on the implementation of this Act, including
a description of a comprehensive plan to address the secu-
rity, human rights, democratization, and economic free-
dom concerns that potentially threaten the stability of the 
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. 
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this Act $10,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2007 and 2008. 
(b) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated pursuant 
to the authorization of appropriations under subsection (a) 
are authorized to remain available until expended. 
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