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to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
on the programs, projects, and activities carried out 
in Georgia with United States foreign assistance fol-
lowing the August 2008 conflict with Russia. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The report required under 
paragraph (1) shall include information concerning 
the following: 
(A) The amount of United States assist-
ance obligated and expended for reconstruction 
activities for the prior fiscal year. 
(B) A description of the programs funded 
by such assistance, including humanitarian aid, 
reconstruction of critical infrastructure, eco-
nomic development, political and democratic de-
velopment, and broadcasting. 
(C) An evaluation of the impact of such 
programs, including their contribution to the 
consolidation of democracy in Georgia and ef-
forts by the Government of Georgia to improve 
democratic governance. 
(D) An analysis of the implementation of 
the United States-Georgia Charter on Strategic 
Partnership. 
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SEC. 1006. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the United States should assist Israel in its ef-
forts to establish diplomatic relations. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the 
Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a report that includes the following in-
formation: 
(1) Actions taken by representatives of the 
United States to encourage other countries to estab-
lish full diplomatic relations with Israel. 
(2) Specific responses solicited and received by 
the Secretary from countries that do not maintain 
full diplomatic relations with Israel with respect to 
their attitudes toward and plans for entering into 
diplomatic relations with Israel. 
(3) Other measures being undertaken, and 
measures that will be undertaken, by the United 
States to ensure and promote Israel’s full participa-
tion in the world diplomatic community. 
(c) FORM
OF SUBMISSION.—The report required 
under subsection (b) may be submitted in classified or un-
classified form, as the Secretary determines appropriate. 
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SEC. 1007. POLICE TRAINING REPORT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall, in 
coordination with the heads of relevant Federal depart-
ments and agencies, conduct a study and transmit to the 
appropriate congressional committees and the Committee 
on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report 
on current overseas civilian police training in countries or 
regions that are at risk of, in, or are in transition from, 
conflict or civil strife. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall contain information on the following: 
(1) The coordination, communication, program 
management, and policy implementation among the 
United States civilian police training programs in 
countries or regions that are at risk of, in, or are 
in transition from, conflict or civil strife. 
(2) The number of private contractors con-
ducting such training, and the quality and cost of 
such private contractors. 
(3) An assessment of pre-training procedures 
for verification of police candidates to adequately as-
sess their aptitude, professional skills, integrity, and 
other qualifications that are essential to law enforce-
ment work. 
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(4) An analysis of the practice of using existing 
Federal police entities to provide civilian police 
training in countries or regions that are at risk of, 
in, or are in transition from, conflict or civil strife, 
along with the subject matter expertise that each 
such entity may provide to meet local needs in lieu 
of the use of private contractors. 
(5) Provide recommendations, including rec-
ommendations related to required resources and ac-
tions, to maximize the effectiveness and interagency 
coordination and the adequate provision of civilian 
police training programs in countries or regions that 
are at risk of, in, or are in transition from, conflict 
or civil strife. 
SEC. 1008. REPORTS ON HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN 
GAZA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act and 1 year thereafter, 
the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a report detailing the humanitarian 
conditions and efficacy and obstacles to humanitarian and 
reconstruction assistance activities in Gaza. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The reports required under sub-
section (a) shall include the following: 
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(1) An assessment of the level of access to basic 
necessities in Gaza, including food, fuel, water, sani-
tation, education, and healthcare. 
(2) An assessment of the ability to successfully 
deliver and distribute humanitarian and reconstruc-
tion goods and supplies. 
(3) A description of the efforts of the United 
States and its allies to facilitate the receipt and dis-
tribution of humanitarian and reconstruction assist-
ance in Gaza. 
(4) An assessment of the obstacles to the deliv-
ery of humanitarian and reconstruction assistance, 
including the activities and policies of Hamas and 
any organization designated as a foreign terrorist or-
ganization under section 219 of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act. 
(5) Recommendations for actions the United 
States can take to best improve the level of access 
to basic necessities referred to in paragraph (1) and 
overcome obstacles described in paragraphs (2) 
through (4). 
(6) An assessment of the policy prohibiting per-
sonnel of the Department of State and the United 
States Agency for International Development from 
traveling to Gaza following the tragic roadside 
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bombing in 2003. Such an assessment should con-
sider and evaluate the prospects that such personnel 
might resume humanitarian assistance operations or 
commence monitoring functions relating to humani-
tarian aid distribution in Gaza in order to ascertain 
that United States foreign assistance is not misused 
in ways that benefit any organization designated as 
a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1189). 
SEC. 1009. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES IN HAITI. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report on the 
following: 
(1) HURRICANE EMERGENCY RECOVERY.—The 
status of activities in Haiti funded or authorized, in 
whole or in part, by the Department of State and 
the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment (USAID) through assistance appropriated 
under the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assist-
ance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009. 
(2) GENERAL ACTIVITIES.—A summary of ac-
tivities funded or authorized, in whole or in part, by 
the Department of State and USAID in the previous 
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12-month period, how such activities supplement the 
work of the Government of Haiti to provide a safe 
and prosperous democracy for its citizens, and a 
timetable for when management and implementation 
of such activities will be turned over to the Govern-
ment of Haiti or Haitian nationals. 
(3) COORDINATION.—A description of how 
United States assistance is coordinated— 
(A) among United States departments and 
agencies; and 
(B) with other donors to Haiti, including 
programs through the United Nations, the 
Inter-American Development Bank, and the Or-
ganization of American States. 
(4) BENCHMARKS.—A summary of short-term 
and long-term objectives for United States assist-
ance to Haiti and metrics that will be used to iden-
tify, track, and manage the progress of United 
States activities in Haiti. 
SEC. 1010. REPORT ON RELIGIOUS MINORITY COMMU-
NITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. 
(a) INITIATIVE
AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of 
State is authorized to undertake a focused initiative to 
monitor the status of and provide specific policy rec-
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ommendations to protect vulnerable religious minorities 
throughout the Middle East region. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, and 1 year thereafter, the 
Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a report on the humanitarian conditions 
of religious minority communities in the Middle East and 
efficacy and obstacles to humanitarian assistance activities 
to help meet the basic needs of vulnerable persons affili-
ated with minority religions in the Middle East, and rec-
ommendations to mitigate adverse humanitarian cir-
cumstances facing such persons. 
SEC. 1011. IRAN’S INFLUENCE IN THE WESTERN HEMI-
SPHERE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The 2008 Country Report on Terrorism 
states that ‘‘Iran and Venezuela continued weekly 
flights connecting Tehran and Damascus with Cara-
cas. Passengers on these flights were reportedly sub-
ject to only cursory immigration and customs con-
trols at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Ca-
racas.’’. 
(2) The Governments of Venezuela and Iran 
have forged a close relationship. 
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(3) Iran has sought to strengthen ties with sev-
eral countries in the Western Hemisphere in order 
to undermine United States foreign policy. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a re-
port that includes actions taken by the Government of 
Iran and Hezbollah in the Western Hemisphere. A classi-
fied annex may be included, if necessary. 
SEC. 1012. RECRUITMENT AND HIRING OF VETERANS AT 
THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND UNITED 
STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DE-
VELOPMENT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Building a more expeditionary and capable 
Department of State and United States Agency for 
International Development requires recruitment of 
personnel with experience working in unstable areas. 
(2) Veterans of the Armed Forces have special-
ized experience gained from working under stressful 
circumstances in hostile, foreign environments or 
under difficult circumstances. 
(3) The Foreign Service Act of 1980 states that 
‘‘The fact that an applicant for appointment as a 
Foreign Service officer candidate is a veteran or dis-
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abled veteran shall be considered an affirmative fac-
tor in making such appointments.’’. 
(4) In 1998, Congress enacted the Veterans 
Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA), requiring 
that Federal agencies must allow preference eligibles 
and certain veterans to apply for positions an-
nounced under merit promotion procedures whenever 
an agency is recruiting from outside its own work-
force. 
(5) The annual report of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management on ‘‘The Employment of Vet-
erans in the Federal Government’’ for fiscal year 
2007, detailing the efforts by all agencies of the 
Federal Government to hire veterans, reported that 
15.6 percent of all Department of State employees 
were veterans. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Department of State and the United States 
Agency for International Development should intensify 
their efforts to recruit more veterans, that those appli-
cants who are entitled to five or ten point veterans pref-
erence have also served in the Armed Forces in areas of 
instability with specialties such as civil affairs, law en-
forcement, and assignments where they regularly per-
formed other nation-building activities, and that this expe-
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rience should be an additional affirmative factor in making 
appointments to serve in the Foreign Service. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State and 
the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development shall jointly submit to Congress a 
report on the efforts of the Department of State and the 
United States Agency for International Development to 
improve the recruitment of veterans into their respective 
workforces. 
SEC. 1013. REPORT ON CHILD ABDUCTION. 
Not later than 60 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to 
Congress a report containing recommendations for 
changes to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of 
International Child Abduction and related United States 
laws and regulations regarding international parental 
child abduction that would, if enacted, provide the United 
States additional legal tools to ensure compliance with the 
Hague Convention and facilitate the swift return of 
United States children wrongfully removed from the 
United States as a result of international parental child 
abduction, such as in the case of Sean Goldman of Tinton 
Falls, New Jersey. 
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SEC. 1014. REPORT ON EFFECTS OF BUY AMERICA ACT 
WAIVERS UNDER THE PEPFAR PROGRAM. 
(a) STUDY.—The Comptroller General of the United 
States shall conduct a study of the effects of the United 
States Agency for International Development’s use of 
waivers under the Buy America Act for HIV test kits 
under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief 
(PEPFAR) program on— 
(1) United States-based manufacturers; and 
(2) availability of and access to HIV testing for 
at-risk populations in low-income countries. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall 
submit to Congress a report on the results of the study 
required under subsection (a). 
SEC. 1015. REPORT ON UNITED STATES-BRAZIL JOINT AC-
TION PLAN TO ELIMINATE RACIAL DISCRIMI-
NATION. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act and 1 year thereafter, the Secretary of 
State shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a report detailing the status, efficacy, and coordi-
nation of the United States-Brazil Joint Action Plan to 
Eliminate Racial Discrimination, and a summary of short 
and long-term efforts to address the plight of in Afro 
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Latinos and indigenous peoples in the Western Hemi-
sphere through cooperation and bilateral efforts. 
SEC. 1016. REPORT ON REDUCING SMUGGLING AND TRAF-
FICKING IN PERSONS. 
The Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies, 
shall conduct a cost-benefit analysis and submit to Con-
gress a report on how best to use United States funds 
to reduce smuggling and trafficking in persons. 
SEC. 1017. REPORT ON WESTERN HEMISPHERE TRAVEL INI-
TIATIVE. 
Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to Con-
gress a report on the effects of the Western Hemisphere 
Travel Initiative (WHTI) on the flow of people, goods, and 
services across the international borders of the United 
States, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean re-
gion, with particular emphasis on whether WHTI has been 
effective in meeting its goal of strengthening United 
States border security and enhancing accountability of in-
dividuals entering the United States, and an assessment 
of the economic impact associated with WHTI and its ef-
fects on small businesses. 
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SEC. 1018. REPORT ON UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
THE UNITED NATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter 
for the next 2 years, the President shall submit to Con-
gress a report, with respect to the preceding fiscal year, 
listing each United States agency, department, or entity 
that provides assessed or voluntary contributions to the 
United Nations and United Nations affiliated agencies 
and related bodies through grants, contracts, subgrants, 
or subcontracts that is not fully compliant with the re-
quirements to post such funding information for the fiscal 
year 
covered 
by 
such 
report 
on 
the 
website 
‘‘USAspending.gov’’ as required by the Federal Funding 
Accountability and Transparency Act (Public Law 109– 
282). 
(b) AVAILABILITY TO PUBLIC.—The Office of Man-
agement and Budget shall post a public version of each 
report submitted under subsection (a) on a text-based 
searchable and publicly available Internet website. 
TITLE XI—MISCELLANEOUS 
PROVISIONS 
Subtitle A—General Provisions 
SEC. 1101. BILATERAL COMMISSION WITH NIGERIA. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that not later than 180 days after the date of the 
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enactment of this Act, the President should establish a 
bilateral commission between the United States and Nige-
ria to support bilateral cooperation in the areas of— 
(1) trade and development; 
(2) economic integration; 
(3) infrastructure planning, finance, develop-
ment, and management; 
(4) budget reform and public finance manage-
ment; 
(5) higher education, including applied re-
search; 
(6) energy; 
(7) peace and security reform; 
(8) rule of law; 
(9) anti-corruption efforts, establishment of 
greater transparency, and electoral reform; and 
(10) monitoring whether bilateral efforts under-
taken between respective Federal, State, and local 
governments are achieving the goals set forth by the 
Governments of the United States and Nigeria. 
(b) BILATERAL COMMISSION.— 
(1) COMPOSITION.—If the President establishes 
the bilateral commission referred to in subsection 
(a), the commission should have an equal number of 
members representing the United States and Nigeria 
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and appointed by the respective Presidents of each 
country. Members should include representatives of 
Federal, State, and local governments, the private 
sector, and civil society organizations. 
(2) FUNCTIONS.—The commission should— 
(A) work to establish a bilateral process 
that establishes the mission, goals, and objec-
tives of a bilateral partnership and establish 
guidelines for accountability and rules to meas-
ure the effectiveness for any initiatives under-
taken; 
(B) monitor bilateral technical assistance 
and capacity building projects that are con-
sistent with and further the mission, goals, and 
objectives established by the commission; and 
(C) submit to the United States President, 
the United States Congress, the Nigerian Presi-
dent, and the Nigerian National Assembly a re-
port on the amount of progress achieved on 
projects undertaken by the two governments to 
achieve bilaterally determined goals established 
by the commission. 
(3) MONITORING OF PROJECTS.—The commis-
sion should select and monitor specific projects that 
involve an exchange of personnel between the Gov-
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ernments of the United States and Nigeria to deter-
mine whether technical assistance and capacity 
building are being used effectively and whether mu-
tual benefit is being gained through the implementa-
tion of such bilateral projects. 
(4) REVIEW AND REPORT.—The Secretary of 
State should review the work of the commission and 
annually submit to the President and Congress a re-
port on whether progress has been made to meet the 
goals set forth by the commission and whether bilat-
eral efforts have served the interest of United States 
and Nigerian bilateral relations. 
(5) UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS.—United 
States contributions to support the Commission 
should be financed through existing resources. 
SEC. 1102. AUTHORITIES RELATING TO THE SOUTHERN AF-
RICA ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT FUND. 
(a) USE OF PRIVATE VENTURE CAPITAL.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In order to maximize the ef-
fectiveness of the activities of the Southern Africa 
Enterprise Development Fund, the Fund may con-
duct public offerings or private placements for the 
purpose of soliciting and accepting private venture 
capital which may be used, separately or together 
with funds made available from the United States 
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Government, for any lawful investment purpose that 
the Board of Directors of the Fund may determine 
in carrying out the activities of the Fund. 
(2) DISTRIBUTION OF FINANCIAL RETURNS.— 
Financial returns on Fund investments that include 
a component of private venture capital may be dis-
tributed, at such times and in such amounts as the 
Board of Directors of the Fund may determine, to 
the investors of such capital. 
(b) NONAPPLICABILITY OF OTHER LAWS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Funds made available from 
the United States Government to the Fund may be 
used for the purposes of the agreement between the 
United States Government and the Fund notwith-
standing any other provision of law. 
(2) SUPPORT
FROM
FEDERAL
DEPARTMENTS 
AND AGENCIES.—The heads of Federal departments 
and agencies may conduct programs and activities 
and provide services in support of the activities of 
the Fund notwithstanding any other provision of 
law. 
(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘South-
ern Africa Enterprise Development Fund’’ or ‘‘Fund’’ in-
cludes— 
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(1) any successor or related entity to the South-
ern Africa Enterprise Development Fund that is ap-
proved the United States Government; and 
(2) any organization, corporation, limited-liabil-
ity partnership, foundation, or other corporate struc-
ture that receives, or is authorized by the United 
States Government to manage, any or all of the re-
maining funds or assets of the Southern Africa En-
terprise Development Fund. 
SEC. 1103. DIABETES TREATMENT AND PREVENTION AND 
SAFE WATER AND SANITATION FOR PACIFIC 
ISLAND COUNTRIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated $500,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 and 2011 
to establish a diabetes prevention and treatment program 
for Pacific Island countries and for safe water and sanita-
tion. 
(b) PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘Pacific Island countries’’ means Fiji, 
Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Mi-
cronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, 
Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. 
SEC. 1104. STATELESSNESS. 
(a) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this section to 
increase global stability and security for the United States 
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and the international community and decrease trafficking 
and discrimination by reducing the number of individuals 
who are de jure or de facto stateless and as a consequence 
are unable to avail themselves of their right to a nation-
ality and its concomitant rights and obligations and are 
excluded from full participation in civil society. 
(b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The right to a nationality is a foundation of 
human rights, and a deterrent to displacement and 
disaffection. The State is the primary vehicle 
through which individuals are guaranteed their in-
alienable rights and are made subject to the rule of 
law. Regional stability and security are undermined 
when individuals cannot avail themselves of their 
right to a nationality and its concomitant rights and 
obligations and are excluded from full participation 
in civil society. 
(2) The right to a nationality and citizenship is 
therefore specifically protect in international declara-
tions and treaties, including Article 15 of the Uni-
versal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1954 Con-
vention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, 
the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Stateless-
ness, Article 24 of the International Covenant on 
Civil and Political Rights, and Article 9(2) of the 
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Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination 
Against Women. 
(3) In the 21st century, the adverse effects of 
de jure or de facto statelessness still impact at least 
an estimated 11,000,000 million people worldwide, 
who are unable to avail themselves of the rights of 
free people everywhere to an effective nationality, to 
the rights to legal residence, to travel, to work in the 
formal economy or professions, to attend school, to 
access basic health services, to purchase or own 
property, to vote, or to hold elected office, and to 
enjoy the protection and security of a country. 
(c) THE UNITED NATIONS.— 
(1) POLICY.—It shall be the policy of the 
United States that the President and the Permanent 
Representative of the United States to the United 
Nations work with the international community to 
increase political and financial support for the work 
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refu-
gees (UNHCR) to prevent and resolve problems re-
lated to de jure and de facto statelessness, and to 
promote the rights of the de jure or de facto state-
less, by taking these and other actions: 
(A) Increasing the attention of the United 
Nations and the UNHCR to de jure and de 
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