Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 107 Part 1.djvu/767

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PUBLIC LAW 103-75—AUG. 12, 1993 107 STAT. 741 COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION FUND For an additional amount for the "Commodity Credit Corporation Fund" to cover 1993 crop losses resulting from damaging weather or related floods associated with the conditions (as defined in section 2251 of Public Law 101-624), in 1993, $1,050,000,000, and in addition $300,000,000, which shall be available only to the extent an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to Congress, the total to remain available until June 30, 1994: Provided, That from funds previously made available in Public Law 102-368 by Presidential declaration, $100,000,000 to remain available until June 30, 1994, shall be for 1993 crop losses only: Provided further, That if prior to April 1, 1994, the President determines that extraordinao^ circumstances exist that warrant further assistance, the Secretary of Agriculture shall use such funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation as are necessanr to make pa3anents in an amount equal to 100 percent of each eligible claim as determined under title XXII of Public Law 101- 624: Provided further. That all additional amounts made available herein are subject to the terms and conditions in Public Law 101- 624: Provided further. That Congress hereby designates the entire amount provided herein as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further. That notwithstanding any provision of Public Law 103-50, funds provided by such Act shall not be expended for 1993 crop losses resulting from 1993 natural disasters, and claims for assistance from funds provided by that Act by producers with 1990, 1991, and 1992 crop losses shall be paid only to the extent such claims are filed by September 17, 1993. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON BOSNIA (a) The Senate finds that: (1) Numerous atrocities have been reported on the conflict in the former Yugoslavia; (2) Such atrocities against innocent civilians and prisoners would violate universally accepted law as embodied in the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 for the Protection of War Victims; the Hague Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and the Regulations annexed thereto of October 18, 1907; the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of December 9, 1948; and the Charter of the International Military Tribunal of August 8, 1945; (3) In October 1992 the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 780 establishing a Commission of Experts to gather and evaluate evidence of such war crimes; (4) The Commission of Experts submitted an interim report dated January 26, 1993 which concluded that grave breaches and other violations of international humanitarian law had been committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, including willful killing, "ethnic cleansing", mass killings, tor-