[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1845 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1845

    To authorize the President to transfer defense articles out of 
     Department of Defense stocks to the Government of Bosnia and 
                              Hercegovina.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            February 10 (legislative day, January 25), 1994

Mr. DeConcini (for himself and Mr. Lieberman) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign 
                               Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the President to transfer defense articles out of 
     Department of Defense stocks to the Government of Bosnia and 
                              Hercegovina.

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

SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO ASSIST BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA.

    Section 548 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and 
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1994 (Public Law 103-87) is 
amended by amending subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:
    ``(a) Congress makes the following findings:
            ``(1) In the absence of adequate measures to maintain 
        international peace and security, continued application to the 
        Government of Bosnia and Hercegovina of the mandatory 
        international arms embargo imposed by the United Nations 
        Security Council prior to the armed attack on Bosnia and 
        Hercegovina undermines that government's right of individual or 
        collective defense and, therefore, contravenes Article 51 of 
        the United Nations Charter.
            ``(2) The right of self-defense of Bosnia-Hercegovina under 
        Article 51 of the United Nations Charter includes the right to 
        request military assistance from other countries and to receive 
        such assistance if offered.
            ``(3) The President should provide appropriate military 
        assistance to the Government of Bosnia and Hercegovina upon 
        receipt from that government of a request for assistance in 
        exercising its right to self-defense under Article 51 of the 
        United Nations Charter.
    ``(b)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or treaty, the 
President is authorized to transfer to the Government of Bosnia and 
Hercegovina, for use solely by forces under its direct control, without 
reimbursement, defense articles from the stocks of the Department of 
Defense of an aggregate value not to exceed $50,000,000 in fiscal year 
1994.
    ``(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term `defense article' 
has the meaning given that term by section 47(3) of the Arms Export 
Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2794 note).''.

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