[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 331 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 331

 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 7, 1997

 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 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 military forces in the Kaliningrad region of 
        Russia are respecting the sovereign territory of Lithuania and 
        other neighboring countries and such forces 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) 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 or the nuclear 
        facility at Cienfuegos.
            (8)(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 
        advanced conventional weapons.
            (B) The countries described in this subparagraph are Iran, 
        Iraq, Syria, the People's Republic of China, 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.
            (9) Russia is in strict compliance with all arms control 
        agreements to which Russia and the United States are a party.
            (10) Russia has ceased all strategic nuclear weapons 
        modernization.
            (11) Russia is in strict compliance with all trade and 
        financial agreements between Russia and any United States 
        business.
    (b) Report.--The President shall submit to the Congress for each 
fiscal year a report containing the certifications required by 
subsection (a). 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 should 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.), the Freedom for Russia and Emerging 
        Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support Act of 1992 (22 
        U.S.C. 5801 et seq.), or the Cooperative Threat Reduction Act 
        of 1993 (22 U.S.C 5951 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 for the promotion of 
                democratic political reform and the rule of law; and
                    (D) assistance for safety upgrades of civilian 
                nuclear power plants.
            (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, the 
        Global Environmental Facility, the Multilateral Investment 
        Guaranty Agency, 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 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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