Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 109 Part 1.djvu/691

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PUBLIC LAW 104-61—DEC. 1, 1995 109 STAT. 675 than $52,000,000 may be obligated or expended for that purpose until the President certifies to Congress the following: (1) That the United States and Russia have completed a joint laboratory study evaluating the proposal of Russia to neutralize its chemical weapons and the United States agrees with the proposal. (2) That Russia is in the process of preparing, with the assistance of the United States as necessary, a comprehensive plan to manage the dismantlement and destruction of the Russia chemical weapons stockpile. (3) That the United States and Russia are committed to resolving outstanding issues under the 1989 Wyoming Memorandum of Understanding and the 1990 Bilateral Destruction Agreement. (b) DEFINITIONS.— In this section: (1) The term "1989 Wyoming Memorandum of Understanding" means the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Regarding a Bilateral Verification Experiment and Data Exchange Related to Prohibition on Chemical Weapons, signed at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on September 23, 1989. (2) The term "1990 Bilateral Destruction Agreement" means the Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on destruction and non-production of chemical weapons and on measures to facilitate the multilateral convention on banning chemical weapons signed on June 1, 1990. SEC. 8115. (a) INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING, PEACE ENFORCE- MENT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE OPERATIONS.—It is the sense of Congress that in the event of a deployment or participation of United States Armed Forces units in any international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, and humanitarian assistance operation, the President must engage in consultations with the bipartisan leadership of Congress and the congressional committees named in subsection (e) regarding such operation in accordance with subsection (c)(1). (b) COVERED OPERATIONS. — (1) This section applies to the following: (A) Any international peacekeeping or peace-enforcement operation that is not underway as of the date of the enactment of this Act and that is authorized by the Security Council of the United Nations under chapter VI or VII of the Charter of the United Nations. (B) Any other international peacekeeping or peace-enforcement operation that is not underway as of the date of the enactment of this Act. (C) Any deployment after the date of the enactment of this Act of United States ground forces in the territory of the former Yugoslavia above the level of such forces so deployed as of such date of enactment, other than a deployment involving fewer than 100 personnel. (D) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any international humanitarian assistance operation. (2) This section does not apply with respect to— (A) an international humanitarian assistance operation carried out in response to a disaster; or