[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2120 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2120

  To prohibit the furnishing of international security assistance to 
 countries that consistently oppose the United States position in the 
                    United Nations General Assembly.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 13, 1993

 Mr. Goodling introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the furnishing of international security assistance to 
 countries that consistently oppose the United States position in the 
                    United Nations General Assembly.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Foreign Assistance Responsibility 
Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SECURITY ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES THAT 
              CONSISTENTLY OPPOSE THE UNITED STATES POSITION IN THE 
              UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

    (a) Prohibition.--Security assistance may not be provided to a 
country that consistently opposed the United States position in the 
United Nations General Assembly during the most recent session of the 
General Assembly.
    (b) Change in Government.--If--
            (1) the Secretary of State determines that, since the 
        beginning of the most recent session of the General Assembly, 
        there has been a fundamental change in the leadership and 
        policies of the government of a country to which the 
        prohibition in subsection (a) applies, and
            (2) the Secretary believes that because of that change the 
        government of that country will no longer consistently oppose 
        the United States position in the General Assembly,
the Secretary may submit to the Congress a request that the Congress 
enact an exemption from that prohibition for that country. Any such 
exemption shall be effective only until submission of the next report 
under section 117 of the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal 
Years 1984 and 1985. Any request for such an exemption shall be 
accompanied by a discussion of the basis for the Secretary's 
determination and belief.
    (c) Definitions.--As used in this section--
            (1) the term ``consistently opposed the United States 
        position'' means that the country's votes in the United Nations 
        General Assembly coincided with the United States position less 
        than 25 percent of the time, using for this purpose the overall 
        percentage-of-voting coincidences set forth in the annual 
        report submitted to the Congress pursuant to section 117 of the 
        Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 
        1985;
            (2) the term ``most recent session of the General 
        Assembly'' means the most recently completed plenary session of 
        the General Assembly for which overall percentage-of-voting 
        coincidences is set forth in the most recent report submitted 
        to the Congress pursuant to section 117 of the Department of 
        State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985; and
            (3) the term ``security assistance'' means assistance 
        under--
                    (A) chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance 
                Act of 1961 (relating to the Economic Support Fund),
                    (B) chapter 5 of part II of that Act (relating to 
                international military education and training), or
                    (C) section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act 
                (relating to the ``Foreign Military Financing 
                Program'').
    (d) Effective Date.--This section takes effect upon submission to 
the Congress of the report pursuant to section 117 of the Department of 
State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985, that is required 
to be submitted by January 31, 1994.

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