[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 108 (Monday, July 28, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8186-S8187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. TORRICELLI (for himself, Mr. Mack, Mr. Helms, and Mr. 
        Graham):
  S. 1073. A bill to withhold United States assistance for programs for 
projects of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Cuba, and for 
other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.


The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Accountability and Safety 
                              Act of 1997

  Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. President, I rise today to join with my 
colleagues, Senators Mack, Helms, and Graham, in introducing the 
International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] Accountability and Safety Act 
of 1997.
  This legislation will withhold from the International Atomic Energy 
Agency [IAEA] a proportional share of United States assistance for 
programs or projects of that Agency in Cuba. It seeks to discourage the 
IAEA from technical assistance programs or projects that would 
contribute to the maintenance or completion of the Juragua Nuclear 
Power Plant near

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Cienfuegos, Cuba and/or to nuclear research or experiments at the Pedro 
Pi Nuclear Research Center.
  Our legislation makes clear to Cuba and to the international 
community that the United States considers the existence of nuclear 
facilities under the control of a government on the list of terrorist 
countries that has not ratified the fundamental agreements on the 
nonproliferation of nuclear weapons a threat to the national security 
of the United States. As such, the United States seeks to discourage 
all other governments and international agencies from assisting the 
efforts of the Cuban Government to maintain or complete the Juragua 
Plant or to advance nuclear research at the Pedro Pi facility.
  United States funds would be made available to the IAEA to 
discontinue, dismantle, or conduct safety inspections of nuclear 
facilities and related materials in Cuba, or to inspect or undertake 
similar activities designed to prevent the development of nuclear 
weapons by Cuba.
  The withholding of funds from the IAEA would be obviated if: Cuba 
ratifies the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons or the 
Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America 
(Tlatelolco); negotiates full-scope safeguards of the IAEA within two 
years of ratifying; and adopts internationally accepted nuclear safety 
standards.
  The legislation also requests reports on the activities of the IAEA 
in Cuba.
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