[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 982 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 982

 To prohibit assistance for Kosovo unless the President determines and 
  certifies to Congress that residents or citizens of Kosovo are not 
    providing assistance to organizations engaging in or otherwise 
   supporting ethnically-motivated violence in southern Serbia or in 
                   Macedonia, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2001

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit assistance for Kosovo unless the President determines and 
  certifies to Congress that residents or citizens of Kosovo are not 
    providing assistance to organizations engaging in or otherwise 
   supporting ethnically-motivated violence in southern Serbia or in 
                   Macedonia, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stabilization and Pacification of 
Southern Serbia Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) On June 10, 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty 
        Organization (NATO) military air operation in the former 
        Yugoslavia concluded with the withdrawal of all Serbian police, 
        paramilitary, and military forces from Kosovo, a province of 
        Serbia.
            (2) On June 9, 1999, the NATO-led international security 
        force for Kosovo, KFOR, and the Governments of the Federal 
        Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia concluded a 
        Military Technical Agreement which, among other things, created 
        a five kilometer (three mile) Ground Safety Zone (GSZ) 
        extending from the boundary of Kosovo into southern Serbia in 
        which forces, except regular police, of the Federal Republic of 
        Yugoslavia or Serbia were excluded from entering without the 
        express permission of the commander of KFOR.
            (3) During the winter of 1999-2000, incidents involving the 
        infiltration from Kosovo into southern Serbia within the GSZ of 
        ethnic Albanian guerrilla forces, designated as the Liberation 
        Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB), were reported 
        by KFOR.
            (4) The declared objective of the UCPMB is the liberation 
        of the ethnic Albanian population of southern Serbia from the 
        authority of the Governments of Serbia and the Federal Republic 
        of Yugoslavia.
            (5) The tactics utilized by the UCPMB include the 
        assassination of Serbian police operating legally within the 
        GSZ and the intimidation of Serbian residents in order to 
        induce them to leave the region.
            (6) On December 17, 2000, United States and Russian 
        Federation troops serving in KFOR who were patrolling the 
        boundary with Serbia in order to interdict the smuggling of 
        arms came under attack by ethnic Albanians attempting to 
        infiltrate into the GSZ from Kosovo.
            (7) The Government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of 
        Macedonia (Macedonia), a coalition that includes 
        representatives of the ethnic Albanian minority in Macedonia, 
        has taken steps acknowledged and applauded by the international 
        community as well as leaders of the Albanians in Kosovo to 
        establish normal relations with Kosovo.
            (8) On February 26, 2001, fighting erupted along the border 
        between Serbia and Macedonia in the Macedonian village of 
        Tanusevci between the Macedonian Army and ethnic Albanians.

SEC. 3. POLICY.

    It shall be the policy of the United States Government--
            (1) to promote a dialog between legitimate representatives 
        of the Albanian community of southern Serbia and the 
        authorities of the Republic of Serbia and the Federal Republic 
        of Yugoslavia aimed at addressing the concerns of both the 
        ethnic Albanian residents of the region and those of the 
        Serbian authorities;
            (2) to address the deteriorating security situation in the 
        Presevo valley of southern Serbia in conjunction with the North 
        Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the NATO-led international 
        security force for Kosovo (KFOR), and the Serbian authorities;
            (3) to urge the authorities of the Federal Republic of 
        Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia to work with the 
        Government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 
        (Macedonia) to find agreement on a complete demarcation of the 
        border between Serbia and Macedonia;
            (4) to support efforts of the Federal Republic of 
        Yugoslavia, Republic of Serbia and the Government of Macedonia 
        to maintain security along the agreed upon border;
            (5) to support the establishment of an international 
        observation and monitoring presence along the Serbian-
        Macedonian border should such presence be requested by the 
        concerned parties; and
            (6) to oppose any modification of the political status of 
        the Province of Kosovo unless and until--
                    (A) all ethnically motivated violence by Kosovo 
                Albanians against Serbian residents of Kosovo has 
                subsided; and
                    (B) all assistance by citizens or residents of 
                Kosovo to parties using violent means to further 
                separatist aims in southern Serbia or Macedonia has 
                ceased.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION OF FUNDS.

    (a) Prohibition.--No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
for assistance for Kosovo under title II of the Foreign Operations, 
Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001 (as 
contained in H.R. 5526 of the 106th Congress, as introduced on October 
24, 2000, as enacted into law by section 101(a) of Public Law 106-429, 
and as contained in an appendix at the end thereto), other than 
assistance for Kosovo under the heading ``international narcotics 
control and law enforcement'', may be expended after June 30, 2001, 
unless, not later than such date, the President determines and 
certifies to Congress that--
            (1) residents or citizens of Kosovo are not providing 
        assistance to the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and 
        Bujanovac (UCPMB), or any other organization engaging in or 
        otherwise supporting ethnically-motivated violence in southern 
        Serbia;
            (2) representatives of the leadership of the major Albanian 
        political parties of Kosovo--the Democratic League of Kosovo 
        (LDK) led by Ibrahim Rugova, the Party of Democratic Kosovo 
        (PDK) led by former KLA leader Hashim Thaci, and the Alliance 
        for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) led by former KLA Commander 
        Ramuz Haradinaj--are positively exerting their influence to 
        halt ethnic violence within Kosovo; and
            (3) residents or citizens of Kosovo are not providing 
        assistance to the Liberation Army of Macedonia, or any other 
        organization engaging in or otherwise supporting ethnically-
        motivated violence in Macedonia.
    (b) Waiver.--The President may waive the application of subsection 
(a) if the President determines and certifies to Congress not later 
than June 30, 2001 that it is in the national interests of the United 
States to do so.
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