[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3330 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3330

  To provide that certain sanctions against Pakistan cannot be waived 
   until the President certifies that Pakistan has a democratically 
                          elected government.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 10, 1999

 Mr. Rothman 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 provide that certain sanctions against Pakistan cannot be waived 
   until the President certifies that Pakistan has a democratically 
                          elected government.

    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 ``United States Support for a 
Democratic Pakistan Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) on May 28, 1998, Pakistan conducted a total of 5 
        nuclear tests, followed by a single nuclear test on May 30, 
        1998, breaking its self-imposed moratorium on nuclear testing;
            (2) on May 30, 1998, the President imposed economic and 
        military sanctions on Pakistan, as mandated by the Arms Export 
        Control Act;
            (3) Public Law 105-277 was approved by the Congress on 
        October 20, 1998, and signed by the President on October 21, 
        1998, and gave the President the authority to waive certain 
        economic sanctions imposed on Pakistan;
            (4) on November 7, 1998, in response to positive 
        indications that Pakistan would address the United States' 
        nuclear nonproliferation concerns, the President used his 
        authority under Public Law 105-277 to ease sanctions against 
        Pakistan;
            (5) the President also gave United States support to 
        emergency lending to Pakistan by the International Monetary 
        Fund, contingent on Pakistan reaching agreement on a credible 
        financial reform program;
            (6) Pakistani troops ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and 
        his duly elected government on Tuesday, October 12, 1999; and
            (7) the coup d'etat which occurred in Pakistan on October 
        12, 1999, effectively erases much of the progress made by 
        Pakistan toward addressing the United States' nuclear 
        nonproliferation concerns and seriously compromises the grounds 
        upon which sanctions were initially waived.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON EXERCISE OF WAIVER AUTHORITY WITH RESPECT TO 
              PAKISTAN.

    (a) Bilateral Sanctions.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the President may not waive, with respect to Pakistan, the 
application of any sanction contained in section 101 or 102 of the Arms 
Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2799aa, 2799aa-1), section 2(b)(4) of the 
Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 (12 U.S.C. 635(b)(4)), or section 
620E(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2375(e)), 
until the President certifies to the Congress that Pakistan has a 
democratically elected government.
    (b) IFI Sanctions.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the 
United States Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund, 
the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the 
International Development Association, the International Finance 
Corporation, and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency to use 
the voice and vote of the United States at each institution to oppose 
the provision of assistance in any form for any project in Pakistan, 
until the President certifies to the Congress that Pakistan has a 
democratically elected government.

SEC. 4. REQUIREMENTS FOR PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATION.

    For purposes of section 3, a democratically elected government in 
Pakistan is a government which--
            (1) results from free and fair elections in which 
        opposition parties were permitted ample time, opportunity, and 
        freedom to organize and campaign for such elections;
            (2) is showing respect for the basic civil liberties and 
        human rights of the people of Pakistan; and
            (3) is committed to ensuring regular free and fair 
        elections and the full enjoyment of basic civil liberties and 
        human rights by the people of Pakistan.

SEC. 5. NATIONAL SECURITY WAIVER.

    The President may waive the applicability of section 3 if the 
President determines that it is in the national security interests of 
the United States to do so.
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