[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 519 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 519

 To prohibit foreign assistance to Russia unless certain requirements 
 relating to Russian intelligence activities, relations between Russia 
 and certain countries, Russian arms control policy, and the reform of 
                      the Russian economy are met.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 1995

 Mr. Solomon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations and, in addition, to the Committee 
  on Banking and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit foreign assistance to Russia unless certain requirements 
 relating to Russian intelligence activities, relations between Russia 
 and certain countries, Russian arms control policy, and the reform of 
                      the Russian economy are met.

    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 ``Freedom and Self-Determination for 
the Former Soviet Union Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO RUSSIA.

    (a) In General.--Foreign assistance may not be obligated or 
expended for Russia for any fiscal year unless the President certifies 
to the Congress for such fiscal year the following:
            (1) The President has received satisfactory assurances from 
        the Government of Russia, which have been confirmed by the 
        Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, that the 
        intelligence activities of Russia in the United States are 
        confined to what is considered routine, non-adversarial 
        information gathering activities.
            (2) Russia has begun, and is making continual progress 
        toward, the unconditional implementation of the Russian-
        Moldovan troop withdrawal agreement, signed by the prime 
        ministers of Russia and Moldova on October 21, 1994.
            (3) Russia is not providing military assistance to any 
        military forces in the Transdniestra region of Moldova.
            (4) Russian troops in the Kaliningrad region of Russia are 
        respecting the sovereign territory of Lithuania and other 
        neighboring countries and such troops are not offensively 
        postured against any other country.
            (5) The activities of Russia in the other independent 
        states of the former Soviet Union do not represent an attempt 
        by Russia to violate or otherwise diminish the sovereignty and 
        independence of such states.
            (6) Russia is not providing military assistance to any 
        Bosnian Serb military units or combatants or to the Government 
        of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
            (7) The Government of Russia has ceased the unilateral 
        demarcation of the border between Russia and Estonia begun in 
        1994, is engaged in dialogue with the Government of Estonia to 
        resolve this border dispute, and has demonstrated a willingness 
        to submit this issue to international arbitration.
            (8) Russia is not providing any intelligence information to 
        Cuba and is not providing any assistance to Cuba with respect 
        to the signal intelligence facility at Lourdes.
            (9)(A) Russia is not providing to the countries described 
        in subparagraph (B) goods or technology, including conventional 
        weapons, which could materially contribute to the acquisition 
        by these countries of chemical, biological, nuclear, or 
        destabilizing numbers and types of advanced conventional 
        weapons.
            (B) The countries described in this subparagraph are Iran, 
        Iraq, Syria, or any country, the government of which the 
        Secretary of State has determined, for purposes of section 
        6(j)(1) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 
        app. 2405(6)(j)(1)), has repeatedly provided support for acts 
        of international terrorism.
            (10) Russia is in compliance with the Convention on the 
        Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of 
        Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their 
        Destruction, signed at Washington, London, and Moscow on April 
        10, 1972 (TIAS 8062).
            (11) Russia is in compliance with the 1989 Wyoming 
        Memorandum of Understanding relating to the restriction of 
        chemical weapons.
            (12) The Government of Russia is committed to reforming the 
        Russian economy along free-market lines, and is taking concrete 
        steps in this direction.
    (b) Certifications for Fiscal Year 1995 and 1996.--In addition to 
the requirements contained in subsection (a), with respect to each of 
the fiscal years 1995 and 1996, foreign assistance may not be obligated 
or expended for Russia unless the President certifies to the Congress 
for each such fiscal year that the Government of Russia--
            (1) has ceased its military offensive in Chechnya and is 
        committed to resolving the problem of the status of Chechnya 
        through negotiations; and
            (2) has provided the President with a full and accurate 
        accounting of the espionage activities relating to the case of 
        Aldrich Hazen Ames of the Central Intelligence Agency and has 
        reimbursed the United States Government for all amounts paid by 
        Russia to Rosario Ames since her arrest in 1994.
    (c) Report.--The President shall submit to the Congress for each 
fiscal year a report containing the certifications required by 
subsection (a), and with respect to each of the fiscal years 1995 and 
1996, subsections (a) and (b). Such report shall be submitted in 
unclassified and classified versions.

SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORTS.

    At the beginning of each fiscal year, the President and the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall each submit to the 
Congress a report containing the following:
            (1) The amount of foreign assistance provided to Russia for 
        the preceding fiscal year, including--
                    (A) the name of each organization or entity to 
                which such assistance was provided;
                    (B) the purpose of such assistance; and
                    (C) an assessment of the effectiveness of such 
                assistance.
            (2) A detailed accounting of the amount of foreign 
        assistance appropriated for Russia which has not been expended 
        and the status of such assistance.
            (3) An estimate of the total amount of capital exported 
        from Russia during the previous fiscal year and an analysis of 
        the reasons for the export of such capital.

SEC. 4. REQUIREMENT TO OPPOSE ASSISTANCE TO RUSSIA FROM INTERNATIONAL 
              FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.

    The President shall instruct the United States executive director 
of each international financial institution to use the voice and vote 
of the United States to oppose any assistance from that financial 
institution to Russia unless Russia is in compliance with the 
requirements contained in section 2.

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act:
            (1) Foreign assistance.--The term ``foreign assistance'' 
        means assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
        U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) or the Freedom for Russia and Emerging 
        Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support Act of 1992 (22 
        U.S.C. 5801 et seq.), except that such term does not include--
                    (A) humanitarian assistance;
                    (B) educational and cultural exchanges between the 
                United States and Russia;
                    (C) assistance provided by the National Endowment 
                for Democracy; and
                    (D) assistance for the purpose of destroying 
                nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and other weapons, 
                and related assistance.
            (2) Goods or technology.--The term ``goods or technology'' 
        has the meaning given such term in section 1608(3) of the Iran-
        Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note).
            (3) International financial institution.--The term 
        ``international financial institution'' means the European Bank 
        for Reconstruction and Development, the International Bank for 
        Reconstruction and Development, the International Development 
        Association, the International Financial Corporation, or the 
        International Monetary Fund.
            (4) Other independent states of the former soviet union.--
        The term ``other independent states of the former Soviet 
        Union'' means the following: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, 
        Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, 
        Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this Act 
shall apply only with respect to fiscal years beginning on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Exceptions.--In the case of the fiscal year in which this Act 
is enacted--
            (1) the prohibition contained in subsections (a) and (b) of 
        section 2 shall apply with respect to the obligation or 
        expenditure of foreign assistance on or after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act (including foreign assistance which has 
        been obligated but not expended before the date of the 
        enactment of this Act); and
            (2) the requirement contained in section 4 shall apply with 
        respect to the provision of assistance by an international 
        financial institution on or after the date of the enactment of 
        this Act.
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