[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 88 (Monday, June 6, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3442]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4400. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1227. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON SAFE RESETTLEMENT OF CAMP 
                   LIBERTY RESIDENTS.

       It is the sense of Congress that the United States 
     Government should--
       (1) work with the Government of Iraq and the United Nations 
     High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to ensure that all 
     residents of Camp Liberty are safely resettled in Albania;
       (2) urge the Government of Iraq to take prompt and 
     appropriate steps in accordance with international agreements 
     to promote the physical security and protection of residents 
     of Camp Liberty during the resettlement process, including 
     steps to ensure that the personnel responsible for providing 
     security at Camp Liberty are adequately vetted to determine 
     that they are not affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary 
     Guard Corps' Qods Force;
       (3) urge the Government of Iraq to ensure continued and 
     reliable access to food, clean water, medical assistance, 
     electricity and other energy needs, and any other equipment 
     and supplies necessary to sustain the residents during 
     periods of attack or siege by external forces during the 
     resettlement process;
       (4) work with the Government of Iraq to make all reasonable 
     efforts to facilitate the sale of residents' property and 
     assets remaining at Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty for the 
     purpose of funding their cost of living and resettlement out 
     of Iraq;
       (5) work with the Government of Iraq and the UNHCR to 
     ensure that Camp Liberty residents may exercise full control 
     of all personal assets in Camp Liberty and the former Camp 
     Ashraf as the residents deem necessary;
       (6) assist, and maintain close and regular communication 
     with, the UNHCR for the purpose of expediting the ongoing 
     resettlement of all residents of Camp Liberty to Albania;
       (7) urge the Government of Albania, and the UNHCR to ensure 
     the continued recognition of the resettled residents as 
     ``persons of concern'' entitled to international protections 
     according to principles and standards in the 1951 Geneva 
     Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and the 
     International Bill of Human Rights; and
       (8) work with the Government of Albania and the UNHCR to 
     facilitate and provide suitable locations for housing of the 
     remaining Camp Liberty residents in Albania until such time 
     as the residents become self-sufficient in meeting their 
     residential needs in Albania.
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