[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5647]
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SA 6092. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe)
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 F of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1276. ENFORCEMENT OF ARMS EMBARGO ON SOUTH SUDAN.
(a) Report.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in
coordination with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of
the Treasury, shall provide to the appropriate congressional
committees a report on military assistance and arms sales
supplied to South Sudan by any foreign government or private
military entity headquartered or registered in any country.
(b) Contents.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) A description of all known bilateral agreements between
South Sudan and foreign governments since 2011, including
agreements regarding military and technical cooperation, arms
sales, and natural resource exploration for extraction
purposes.
(2) An analysis of direct or indirect military support to
South Sudan or non-state armed groups in South Sudan by a
foreign government or a private military entity headquartered
or registered in a foreign country, including a description
of the types of support and an estimate of the monetary value
of such support.
(3) A description of arms sales or deliveries to South
Sudan within the previous calendar year and an analysis of
the extent to which such arms sales violate the arms embargo.
(4) An analysis of efforts by South Sudan through direct
and indirect lobbying and misinformation to undermine or
evade the arms embargo.
(5) An analysis of how foreign arms sales to the
Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity
(RTGoNU) of South Sudan and non-state armed groups impact
human rights and the peace and security in South Sudan,
including the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on
the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan
(R-ARCSS), signed on September 12, 2018, by the government
and main opposition parties of South Sudan.
(6) A plan for the United States Government to monitor,
report, and counteract efforts by South Sudan, any foreign
government, and any private military entity headquartered or
registered in a country other than South Sudan to evade the
arms embargo, including export controls.
(c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified
annex.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
(2) Arms embargo.--The term ``arms embargo'' means the arms
embargo imposed on the Republic of South Sudan by the United
Nations Security Council.
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