Date: 1991-06-19
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I would like defense of the ROK against aggression. The Wt to thank my distinguished colleague from Flor- Security Council resolutions calling on the ment ida and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs international community to protect the ROK has Committee. Mr. FASCEU-. for his leadership on against aggression are still in effect. State the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative [EAI] An endorsement by Congress of the Repub- then legislation included in the foreign aid reauthor- lic of Koreas bid for membership of the dont ization bill. United Nations is timely and important. Sir This legislation builds on the EAI authorized The second provison that I offered con- from in the Food. Agriculture. Conservation. and cems the nation of Ethiopia. The downfall in shelt Trade Act of 1990. which provided the Presi- late May of the regime headed by the tyrant team dent with authorization to reduce concessional Mengistu Haile Mariam offers a ray of hope erosi Public Law 480 obligations to eligible Latin that a new day for Ethiopia has dawned. scho American countries. by providing additional The language I offered in the en bloc fewauthorization for the reduction of concessional amendment calls upon the new authorities in struc AID obligations to such countries. control of Ethiopia to do what is necessary to and As the gentleman from Florida knows. both establish a broadlybased provisional govern- buy the House Committee on Agriculture and the ment that will begin the process of writing a Vc House Foreign Affairs committees share juris- Constitution and establishing a fully represent- work diction over various parts of the EAL There- ative government The language calls on the fore. I am happy to report that both commit- authorities in Ethiopia to respect human rights. mos tees were able to work out an amendment to implement economic reforms. and facilitate parts clarify several aspects. of the EAI legislation the districution of emergency humanitarian as- their included in this biii. sistance. mind Such amendment clarifies that at least one The language also addresses the authorities Mi member of the Environment for the Americas in Eritrea and calls on them to open the ports Pres Board shall be from the Department of Agri- of Mitsiwa and Aseb and to allow the restora- equil culture and that the EAI Facility. established in tion of commerce through those ports. as well over the 1990 farm bill. will be responsible for sup- as the delivery and distribution of emergency tiona porting the objectives of the EAI through ad- humanitarian assistance through those ports.. Mi ministration of debt reduction operations for Mr. Chairman. we all pray that Ethiopias tiona those Latin American nations that meet the long dark night is over. The devastation eign economic and investment conditionality estab wrought by 17 years of Marxist tyranny has re- finec lished by the 1990 farm bill for Public Law 480 duced the proud and ancient nation of Ethio- Unit concessional obligations and by this legisla- pia to a state of profound crisis in all TI ion for AID concessional obligations. spherespolitical. economic. and social. But we These requirements. to the extent possible the Mengistu regime is gone. and the opportu- go t shall be coordinated to provide for effective nity to build a new Ethiopia is at hand. The Th implementation of the reduction of conces- language in the en bloc amendment calls of tl sional obligations in the EAI. upon our President to conilnue his active ef- to v In close. Chairman FASCELL and I discussed forts on behalf of reconciliation and reconsid- sistn in an exchange of letters dated June 3. eration in Ethiopa. rath 1991which have been submitted for the Mr. Chairman. I want to think my good port recordthat in the interest of not delaying friend. Mr. DYAMLLY. the distinguished new goo House floor action on this bill. the Committee chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa. for I on Agriculture would not ask for sequential re- his assistance in putting this amendment to- com ferral over this part of the bill. Nevertheless. gether. ame this action was taken without in any respect Mr. RAHALL Mr. Chairman. I rise in strong I waiving the jurisdiction of the Committee on support of the Taylor amendment. and in op- in y4 Agriculture over matters within its jurisdiction. position to the McCollum substitute. Rah I look forward to working with the gentle- As GENE knows. I have gone before the drop man from Florida on other parts of the EAI in Armed Services Committee. where he is a men the future. member. in an effort to get an amended ver- I