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developing countries under the direction of the Commit-
tees on Appropriations. 
RECONCILIATION PROGRAMS 
SEC. 668. Of the funds appropriated by title III of 
this Act under the heading ‘‘ECONOMIC SUPPORT 
FUND’’, not less than $12,000,000 shall be made avail-
able to support Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation 
Programs and an additional amount of $11,000,000 shall 
be made available to support Middle East People to People 
Coexistence Programs to promote activities which bring 
together individuals of different ethnic, religious, and po-
litical backgrounds from areas of civil conflict and war. 
SUDAN 
SEC. 669. (a) LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE.—Subject 
to subsection (d): 
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
made available for assistance for the Government of 
Sudan. 
(2) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be made available for the cost, as defined in 
section 502, of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974, of modifying loans and loan guarantees held 
by the Government of Sudan, including the cost of 
selling, reducing, or canceling amounts owed to the 
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United States, and modifying concessional loans, 
guarantees, and credit agreements. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Secretary of 
State determines and certifies to the Committees on Ap-
propriations that: 
(1)
The
Government
of
Sudan
honors
its 
pledges to cease attacks upon civilians and disarms 
and demobilizes the Janjaweed and other govern-
ment-supported militias. 
(2) The Government of Sudan and all govern-
ment-supported militia groups are honoring their 
commitments made in all previous cease-fire agree-
ments. 
(3) The Government of Sudan is allowing 
unimpeded access to Darfur to humanitarian aid or-
ganizations, the human rights investigation and hu-
manitarian teams of the United Nations, including 
protection officers, and the international monitoring 
team that is based in Darfur and has the support 
of the United States. 
(c) EXCEPTIONS.—The provisions of subsection (b) 
shall not apply to— 
(1) humanitarian assistance; 
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(2) assistance for the Darfur region, Southern 
Sudan, Southern Kordofan/Nuba Mountains State, 
Blue Nile State, and Abyei; and 
(3) assistance to support implementation of the 
Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Darfur 
Peace Agreement or any other internationally-recog-
nized viable peace agreement in Sudan. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this Act, the 
term ‘‘Government of Sudan’’, shall not include the Gov-
ernment of Southern Sudan. 
(e) Notwithstanding any other law, assistance in this 
Act may be made available to the Government of Southern 
Sudan to provide non-lethal military assistance, military 
education and training, and defense services controlled 
under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (22 
CRF 120.1 et seq.) if the Secretary of State— 
(1) determines that the provision of such items 
is in the national interest of the United States; and 
(2) not later than 15 days before the provision 
of any such assistance, notifies the Committees on 
Appropriations and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions in the Senate and the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs in the House of Representatives of such de-
termination. 
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TRADE CAPACITY BUILDING 
SEC. 670. Of the funds appropriated by this Act, 
under the headings ‘‘DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE’’, 
‘‘ASSISTANCE FOR EASTERN EUROPE AND THE 
BALTIC STATES’’, ‘‘ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND’’, 
‘‘ANDEAN COUNTERDRUG INITIATIVE’’, and ‘‘AS-
SISTANCE FOR THE INDEPENDENT STATES OF 
THE
FORMER
SOVIET
UNION’’,
not
less
than 
$525,000,000 should be made available for trade capacity 
building assistance: Provided, That $10,000,000 of the 
funds appropriated in this Act under the heading ‘‘ECO-
NOMIC SUPPORT FUND’’ shall be made available for 
labor and environmental capacity building activities relat-
ing to the free trade agreement with the countries of Cen-
tral America and the Dominican Republic. 
EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH 
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND CERTAIN OTHER COUNTRIES 
SEC. 671. Notwithstanding section 516(e) of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j(e)), during 
fiscal year 2008, funds available to the Department of De-
fense may be expended for crating, packing, handling, and 
transportation of excess defense articles transferred under 
the authority of section 516 of such Act to Albania, Af-
ghanistan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Former Yugo-
slavian Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, India, Iraq, 
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, 
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Mongolia,
Pakistan,
Romania,
Slovakia,
Tajikistan, 
Turkmenistan, and Ukraine. 
ASSISTANCE TO COLOMBIA LAW ENFORCEMENT TO 
COMBAT ILLEGAL ARMED GROUPS 
SEC. 672. (a) ASSISTANCE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT 
AND INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES.— 
(1) WITHHOLDING OBLIGATIONS OF FUNDS.— 
The Secretary of State shall withhold the obligation 
of funds for assistance to any Colombian law en-
forcement or intelligence agency, including the Co-
lombian
National
Police,
the
Fiscalı´a,
and
the 
Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (the In-
telligence
Service),
if
the
Secretary
determines 
that— 
(A) there has been significant infiltration 
of the agency by the Revolutionary Armed 
Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Lib-
eration Army (ELN), or the United Self-De-
fense Forces of Colombia (AUC), successor 
groups, or criminal organizations; or 
(B) the agency’s leadership has willfully 
provided any support to such groups, including 
taking actions or failing to take actions which 
allow, facilitate, or otherwise foster the activi-
ties of such groups. 
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