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102 STAT. 2268-23
PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1988
102 STAT. 2268-23

PUBLIC LAW 100-461—OCT. 1, 1988

102 STAT. 2268-23

HUMAN RIGHTS

SEC. 511. Funds appropriated by this Act may not be obligated or expended to provide assistance to any country for the purpose of aiding the efforts of the government of such country to repress the legitimate rights of the population of such country contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. PROHIBITION AGAINST DIRECT FUNDING FOR CERTAIN COUNTRIES

SEC. 512. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance or reparations to Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Iraq, Libya, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, South Yemen, Iran, or Syria. MILITARY COUPS

SEC. 513. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance to any country whose duly elected Head of Government is deposed by military coup or decree: Provided, That assistance may be resumed to such country if the President determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that subsequent to the termination of assistance a democratically elected government has taken office. TRANSFERS BETWEEN ACCOUNTS

SEC. 514. None of the funds made available by this Act may be obligated under an appropriation account to which they were not appropriated without the prior written approval of the Committees on Appropriations. DEOBLIGATION/REOBLIGATION AUTHORITY

SEC. 515. Amounts certified pursuant to section 1311 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1955, as having been obligated against appropriations heretofore made under the authority of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for the same general purpose as any of the headings under the "Agency for International Development" are, if deobligated, hereby continued available for the same period as the respective appropriations under such headings or until September 30, 1989, whichever is later, and for the same general purpose, and for countries within the same region as originally obligated: Provided, That the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of the Congress are notified fifteen days in advance of the deobligation and reobligation of such funds: Provided further. That the authority of this section may be used to continue the availability of any of the funds deobligated under any of such headings in order to provide relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance for Jamaica and Bangladesh: Provided further. That any such funds reobligated for Jamaica and Bangladesh shall be made available in accordance with the general authorities contained in section 491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further. That the authority of this section may not be exercised to deobligate and reobligate funds previously obligated for the "Economic Support Fund"