PUBLIC LAW 105-261—OCT. 17, 1998 112 STAT. 2181 (4) urges India and Pakistan to engage in high-level dialogue aimed at reducing the likelihood of aimed conflict, enacting confidence and security building measures, and resolving areas of dispute; (5) commends all nations to take steps which will reduce tensions in South Asia, including appropriate measures to prevent the transfer of technology that could further exacerbate the arms race in South Asia, and thus avoid further deterioration of security there; (6) calls upon the President, leaders of all nations, and the United Nations to encourage a diplomatic, negotiated solution between the Governments of India and Pakistan to promote peace and stability in South Asia and resolve the current impasse; (7) encourages United States diplomatic leadership in assisting the Governments of India and Pakistan to seek a negotiated resolution of their 50-year conflict over the disputed territory in Kashmir; (8) urges India and Pakistan to take immediate, binding, and verifiable steps to roll back their nuclear programs and come into compliance with internationaly accepted norms regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and (9) urges the United States to reevaluate its bilateral relationship with India and Pakistan, in light of the new regional security realities in South Asia, with the goal of preventing further nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation, diffusing long-standing regional rivalries between India and Pakistan, and securing commitments from India and Pakistan which, if carried out, could result in a calibrated lifting of United States sanctions imposed under the Arms Export Control Act and the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994. SEC. 1533. REPORT ON REQUIREMENTS FOR RESPONSE TO INCREASED MISSILE THREAT IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION. (a) STUDY. —The Secretary of Defense shall carry out a study of the architecture requirements for the establishment and operation of a theater ballistic missile defense sj^stem in the Asia- Pacific region that would have the capability to protect key regional allies of the United States. (b) REPORT. —(1) Not later than January 1, 1999, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report containing— (A) the results of the study conducted under subsection (a); (B) the factors used to obtain such results; and (C) a description of any United States missile defense system currently deployed or under development that could be transferred to key allies of the United States in the Asia- Pacific region to provide for their self-defense against limited ballistic missile attacks. (2) The report shall be submitted in both classified and unclassified form.
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