[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1775 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1775

 To amend section 490 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to modify 
the matters taken into account in assessing the cooperation of foreign 
 countries with the counterdrug efforts of the United States, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 25, 1999

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 490 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to modify 
the matters taken into account in assessing the cooperation of foreign 
 countries with the counterdrug efforts of the United States, and for 
                            other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION FOR ASSESSMENT OF COOPERATION OF 
              FOREIGN COUNTRIES WITH UNITED STATES COUNTERDRUG EFFORTS.

    (a) Purposes.--The purposes of this section are as follows:
            (1) To promote the full application of the Anti-Drug 
        Strategy established by the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control 
        Commission of the Organization of American States, during its 
        twentieth regular session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 
        October 1996, signed in Montevideo, Uruguay, in December 1996, 
        and adopted by the Organization of American States General 
        Assembly during its twenty-seventh regular session in Lima, 
        Peru, in June 1997.
            (2) To strengthen confidence, dialogue, and hemispheric 
        cooperation with the United States in order to confront, with 
        greater efficiency and efficacy, the diverse aspects of the 
        world drug problem.
            (3) To enhance cooperation and coordination between the 
        member states of the Organization of American States and states 
        in other regions, the United Nations, and other international 
        entities.
    (b) Additional Consideration for Certification.--Section 490(b)(2) 
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291j(b)(2)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(D) met the goals and objectives, to the extent 
                applicable, of the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism of 
                the Organization of American States, including the 
                extent of any progress on the specific performance 
                indicators identified under the Mechanism, the 
                transparency, impartiality, and equality of information 
                provided in furtherance of the goals and objectives, 
                and the full and timely compliance of the country with 
                mutually established rules and procedures of general 
                application under the Mechanism.''.
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