Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 112 Part 4.djvu/225

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PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2681-196 (1) IN GENERAL.— Subject to paragraph (2), subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to the provision of— (A) humanitarian assistance; (B) democratization assistance; (C) assistance for cross border physical infrastructure projects involving activities in both a sanctioned country, entity, or canton and a nonsanctioned contiguous country, entity, or canton, if the project is primarily located in and primarily benefits the nonsanctioned country, entity, or canton and if the portion of the project located in the sanctioned country, entity, or CEinton is necessary only to complete the project; (D) small-scale assistance projects or activities requested by United States Armed Forces that promote good relations between such forces and the officials and citizens of the areas in the United States SFOR sector of Bosnia; (E) implementation of the Brcko Arbitral Decision; (F) lending by the international financial institutions to a country or entity to support common monetary and fiscal policies at the national level as contemplated by the Dayton Agreement; or (G) direct lending to a non-sanctioned entity, or lending passed on by the national government to a non-sanctioned entity. (H) assistance to the International Police Task Force for the training of a civilian police force. (2) NOTIFICATION.— Every 30 days the Secretary of State, Federal Register, in consultation with the Administrator of the Agency for Inter- publication. national Development, shall publish in the Federal Register and/or in a comparable publicly accessible document or internet site, a listing and justification of any assistance that is obligated within that period of time for any country, entity, or canton described in subsection (e), including a description of the purpose of the assistance, project and its location, by municipality. (d) FURTHER LIMITATIONS.— Notwithstanding subsection (c)— (1) no assistance may be made available by this Act, or any prior Act making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing and related programs, in any country, entity, or canton described in subsection (e), for a program, project, or activity in which a publicly indicted war criminal is known to have any finsmcial or material interest; and (2) no assistance (other than emergency foods or medical assistance or demining assistance) may be made available by this Act, or any prior Act making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing and related programs for any program, project, or activity in a community within any country, entity or canton described in subsection (e) if competent authorities within that community are not complying with the provisions of Article DC and Annex 4, Article II, paragraph 8 of the Daj^on Agreement relating to war crimes and the Tribunal. (e) SANCTIONED COUNTRY, ENTITY, OR CANTON.— A sanctioned country, entity, or canton described in this section is one whose competent authorities have failed, as determined by the Secretary of State, to take necessary and significant steps to apprehend gind transfer to the Tribunal all persons who have been publicly indicted by the Tribunal. 59-1940-98 -8:QL3 Part 4