PUBLIC LAW 104-106—FEB. 10, 1996 110 STAT. 493 (11) The United States should strongly encourage full implementation at the earliest possible date of the terms and conditions of the United States-Russia bilateral chemical weapons destruction agreement signed in 1990. (12) The START II Treaty negotiated and signed by President Bush would help reduce the danger of potential proliferators, including terrorists, acquiring nuclear warheads and materials, and would contribute to United States-Russian bilateral efforts to secure and dismantle nuclear warheads, if ratified and fully implemented as signed by both parties. (13) It is in the national security interest of the United States to take effective steps to make it more difficult for proliferators or would-be terrorists to obtain chemical or nuclear materials for use in weapons. (14) The President has urged prompt Senate action on, and advice and consent to ratification of, the START II Treaty and the Chemical Weapons Convention. (15) The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has testified to Congress that ratification and full implementation of both treaties by all parties is in the United States national interest and has strongly urged prompt Senate advice and consent to their ratification. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that the United States, Russia, and all other parties to the START II Treaty and the Chemical Weapons Convention should promptly ratify and fully implement, as negotiated, both treaties. SEC. 1407. IMPLEMENTATION OF ARMS CONTROL AGREEMENTS. (a) FUNDING.— Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to authorizations in sections 102, 103, 104, 201, and 301, the Secretary of Defense may use an amount not to exceed $239,941,000 for implementing arms control agreements to which the United States is a party. (b) LIMITATION.—(1) Funds made available pursuant to subsection (a) for the costs of implementing an arms control agreement may not (except as provided in paragraph (2)) be used to reimburse expenses incurred by any other party to the agreement for which (without regard to any executive agreement or any policy not part of an arms control agreement)— (A) the other party is responsible under the terms of the arms control agreement; and (B) the United States has no responsibility under the agreement. (2) The limitation in paragraph (1) does not apply to a use of funds to carry out an arms control expenses reimbursement policy of the United States described in subsection (c). (c) COVERED ARMS CONTROL EXPENSES REIMBURSEMENT POLI- CIES. —Subsection (b)(2) applies to a policy of the United States to reimburse expenses incurred by another party to an arms control agreement if— (1) the policy does not modify any obligation imposed by the arms control agreement; (2) the President— (A) issued or approved the policy before the date of the enactment of this Act; or (B) entered into an agreement on the policy with the government of another country or approved an agreement
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