Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 107 Part 1.djvu/768

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107 STAT. 742 PUBLIC LAW 103-75—AUG. 12, 1993 ture, rape, pillage, and destruction of civilian property, destruction of cultural and religious property and arbitrary arrests; (5) The Commission of Experts has been hindered in carry- ing out fully its legal charge because of insufilcient resources; (6) On February 22, 1993, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 808 establishing an international tribimal to try individuals accused of the commission of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia; (7) On May 3, 1993, the Secretary General of the United Nations issued his report which established the procediires for an international war crimes tribunal; (8) The United Nations is presently in the process of selecting judges and prosecutors for the international war crimes tribunal; (9) According to reports, the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia continue imabated; and (10) There is a dire need to establish promptly the tribunal and commence prosecution of alleged war criminals: Now, therefore. (b) The Senate hereby commends the United Nations for its recognition of the importance and necessity of the rule of law as evidenced by its establishment of an international tribunal for the prosecution of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. (c) It is the sense of the Senate that the United Nations should— (1) expedite the selection of judges and prosecutors for the tribunal in order to begin prosecutions of alleged war criminals; and (2) provide all assistance necessary to continue gathering evidence for such prosecutions. SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS For an additional amount to repair damages to the waterways and watersheds resulting from the Midwest floods and other natural disasters of 1993, $60,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1994 to carry out the Emergency Watershed Protection Program of the Soil Conservation Service, of which $25,000,000, shall be available only to the extent an ofQcial 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, is transmitted by the President to Congress: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by Congress 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 if the Secretary determines that the cost of land and levee restoration exceeds the fair market value of an affected cropland, the Secretary may use sviflicient amounts from funds provided under this head to accept bids from willing sellers to enroll such cropland inundated by the Midwest floods of 1993 in any of the affected States in the Wetlands Reserve Program as authorized by subchapter C of chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3837).