112 STAT. 2681-95 PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 PAYMENT TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN TAIWAN For necessary expenses to carry out the Taiwan Relations Act, Public Law 96-8, $14,750,000. PAYMENT TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND For payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund, as authorized by law, $132,500,000. 22 USC 269a INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES note. CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to meet annual obligations of membership in international multilateral organizations, pursuant to treaties ratified pursuant to the advice and consent of the Senate, conventions or specific Acts of Congress, $922,000,000: Provided, That any payment of arrearages shall be directed toward special activities that are mutually agreed upon by the United States and the respective international organization: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be available for a United States contribution to an mtemational organization for the United States share of interest costs made known to the United States Government by such organization for loans incurred on or after October 1, 1984, through external borrowings: Provided further. That, of the funds appropriated in this paragraph, $100,000,000 may be made available only on a semi-annual basis pursuant to a certification by the Secretary of State on a semi-annual basis, that the United Nations has taken no action during the preceding 6 months to increase funding for any United Nations program without identifying an offsetting decrease during that 6-month period elsewhere in the United Nations budget and cause the United Nations to exceed the expected reform budget for the biennium 1998-1999 of $2,533,000,000: Provided further. That not to exceed $15,000,000 shall be transferred from funds made available under this heading to tile "International Conferences and Contingencies" account for United States contributions to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory Commission, except that such transferred funds may be obligated or expended only for Commission meetings and sessions, provisional technical secretariat salaries and expenses, otiier Commission administrative and training activities, including purchase of training equipment, and upgrades to existing internationaly based monitoring systems involved in cooperative data sharing agreements with the United States as of the date of enactment of this Act, until the United States Senate ratifies the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: Provided further. That notwithstanding section 402 of this Act, not to exceed $1,223,000 may be transferred from the funds made available under this heading to the "International Conferences and Contingencies" account for assessed contributions to new or provisioned international organizations or for travel expenses of official delegates to international conferences: Provided further. That any transfer pursuant to the previous proviso shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with
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