PUBLIC LAW 104-114 —MAR. 12, 1996 110 STAT. 797 "(4) The assistance is provided under the secondary school exchange program administered by the United States Information Agency.". (d) FACILITIES AT LOURDES, CUBA.— (1) DISAPPROVAL OF CREDITS.— The Congress expresses its strong disapproval of the extension by Russia of credits equivalent to $200,000,000 in support of the intelligence facility at Lourdes, Cuba, in November 1994. (2) REDUCTION IN ASSISTANCE.— Section 498A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2295a) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: " (d) REDUCTION IN ASSISTANCE FOR SUPPORT OF INTELLIGENCE FACILITIES IN CUBA.— "(1) REDUCTION IN ASSISTANCE. —Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President shall withhold from assistance provided, on or after the date of the enactment of this subsection, for an independent state of the former Soviet Union under this Act an amount equal to the sum of assistance and credits, if any, provided on or after such date by such state in support of intelligence facilities in Cuba, including the intelligence facility at Lourdes, Cuba. "(2) WAIVER.—(A) The President may waive the requirement of paragraph (1) to withhold assistance if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the provision of such assistance is important to the national security of the United States, and, in the case of such a certification made with respect to Russia, if the President certifies that the Russian Government has assured the United States Government that the Russian Government is not sharing intelligence data collected at the Lourdes facility with officials or agents of the Cuban Government. "(B) At the time of a certification made with respect to Russia under subparagraph (A), the President shall also submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report describing the intelligence activities of Russia in Cuba, including the purposes for which the Lourdes facility is used by the Russian Government and the extent to which the Russian Government provides payment or government credits to the Cuban Government for the continued use of the Lourdes facility. "(C) The report required by subparagraph (B) may be submitted in classified form. "(D) For purposes of this paragraph, the term 'appropriate congressional committees' includes the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. " (3) EXCEPTIONS TO REDUCTIONS IN ASSISTANCE.—The requirement of paragraph (1) to withhold assistance shall not apply with respect to— "(A) assistance to meet urgent humanitarian needs, including disaster and refugee relief; "(B) democratic political reform or rule of law activities; "(C) technical assistance for safety upgrades of civilian nuclear power plants; "(D) the creation of private sector or nongovernmental organizations that are independent of government control; "(E) the development of a free market economic system; President. Reports.
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