[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2707 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2707

To restrict United States assistance of any kind to Turkey until Turkey 
  uses its influence with the Turkish Cypriot leadership to achieve a 
     settlement on Cyprus based on United Nations Security Council 
                              resolutions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 1, 2001

  Mr. Payne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To restrict United States assistance of any kind to Turkey until Turkey 
  uses its influence with the Turkish Cypriot leadership to achieve a 
     settlement on Cyprus based on United Nations Security Council 
                              resolutions.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) In 1974 Turkey illegally invaded Cyprus and 
        subsequently occupied over a third of the island.
            (2) 2001 marks twenty-seven years of continued illegal 
        Turkish military occupation of Cyprus despite universal 
        international condemnation.
            (3) The Turkish military has obstructed efforts to reach a 
        just and lasting resolution of the division of the island and 
        the massive uprooting and ethnic cleansing of Greek Cypriots 
        caused by the 1974 Turkish invasion.
            (4) Turkey, in a May 10, 2001 judgment of the European 
        Court of Human Rights, was found responsible for massive 
        violations of human rights as a result of the continuing 
        occupation by Turkey of the northern part of Cyprus.
            (5) Turkey's illegal invasion in 1974 violated the United 
        Nations Charter, the NATO Treaty, and customary international 
        law.
            (6) Talks have been held under United Nations auspices to 
        reach a settlement based on ``a state of Cyprus with a single 
        sovereignty and international personality and a single 
        citizenship in a bizonal, bicommunal federation'' and that such 
        a settlement has been unanimously adopted by the international 
        community but is rejected by Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot 
        leader, Mr. Rauf Denktash.
            (7) Successive rounds of proximity talks supported by the 
        G-8, the United Nations Security Council and the European Union 
        under United Nations auspices have made little progress, and 
        efforts to hold substantive discussions in 2001 are being 
        thwarted by new unproductive and unacceptable ``recognition'' 
        demands by Mr. Denktash, supported by Turkey.
            (8) The Cyprus Government has actively engaged in the 
        search for a settlement, as evidenced by the constructive 
        participation by Cyprus in United Nations-sponsored proximity 
        talks.
            (9) Turkey has had several financial crises over the past 
        decades, including two within the past six months.
            (10) At present, Turkey contributes approximately 
        $350,000,000 annually in direct economic support to the illegal 
        regime in the occupied area of Cyprus and several hundred 
        million dollars for support of its occupation troops and 
        settlers.
            (11) The continuing unresolved Cyprus issue prevents normal 
        relations between NATO allies, Greece and Turkey.
            (12) Tension between Greece and Turkey contributes to 
        instability in Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.
            (13) The United States has an important stake in fostering 
        good relations between two NATO allies, Greece and Turkey.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTION ON ASSISTANCE.

    United States assistance of any kind shall not be provided to 
Turkey until Turkey uses its influence with the Turkish Cypriot 
leadership to achieve a settlement on Cyprus that calls for the 
following:
            (1) A resumption of the proximity talks within the agreed 
        procedure and framework and based on good faith negotiations.
            (2) A solution set forth in United Nations resolutions, 
        based on ``a state of Cyprus with a single sovereignty and 
        international personality and a single citizenship in a 
        bizonal, bicommunal federation'' embodying the fundamental 
        constitutional and democratic principles common in Western 
        democracies, compatible with the Human Rights Convention and 
        Protocols, the European Acquis Communautaire and international 
        law.
            (3) The immediate demilitarization of Cyprus.
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