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PUBLIC LAW 101-167—NOV. 21, 1989 103 STAT. 1261 The United Nations also has failed to intervene on behalf of those who are now imprisoned because of their attempts to testify before the United Nations human rights investigative group last fall. (2) STATEMENT OF POLICY. — In the interest of promoting respect for human rights in Cuba, the Congress— (A) calls on the Secretary General of the United Nations to act upon the resolution approved by the Commission on Human Rights March 9, 1989, calling on the Secretary General to take appropriate follow up action on the Commission's report; (B) calls on the Secretary General to specifically urge the Cuban government to release the 22 persons still being held in detention because of their human rights activities; (C) calls on the United States Ambassador to the United Nations to make known in the strongest terms the dissatisfac- tion of the United States with the failure by the United Nations to continue to act on its own resolution; and (D) calls on the Secretary of the United Nations to expand the United Nation's investigation of Cuba to include an examina- tion of labor rights in recognition of current Cuban law which prohibits the formation of independent unions and which has led to the imprisonment of those Cuban workers who have tried to organize themselves. ASSISTANCE FOR POLAND AND HUNGARY SEC. 599C. (a) In addition to amounts appropriated under the heading "Trade and Development Program", there is hereby appro- priated $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out the provisions of section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, notwithstanding any other provision of law. Ob) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any funds made available by this Act for a specific activity for Poland or Hungary instead may be obligated for Poland or Hungary for an activity with a similar purpose. The authority of section 515 of this Act may also be used to deobligate such funds and reobligate them for Polsuid or Hungary for an activity with a similar purpose: Provided, That the authority of this subsection shall be exercised subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. (c) Funds made available by this Act and obligated for the Govern- ment of Poland shall not be expended if the President of Poland, or any other Polish official, initiates martial law without the consent of the Polish Senate and Sejm, or if members of the Polish Senate or the Sejm are removed from office or are arrested through extra- constitutional processes: Provided, That, notwithstanding the restriction on expenditures contained in this subsection, the Presi- dent of the United States may continue to expend funds made available to Poland if he determines and certifies to Congress that it is in the foreign policy interest of the United States to do so. ESTABLISHING CATEGORIES OF AUENS FOR PURPOSES OF REFUGEE DETERMINATIONS SEC 599D. (a) IN GENERAL.—In the case of an alien who is within a 8 USC 1157 note, category of aliens established under subsection (b), the alien may establish, for purposes of admission as a refugee under section 207 of