PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2681-204 (3) Iran continues aggressively to seek weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them; (4) it is long-standing United States policy to offer official government-to-government dialogue with the Iranian regime, such offers having been repeatedly rebuffed by Tehran; (5) more than a year after the election of President Khatemi, Iranian foreign policy continues to threaten American security and that of our allies in the Middle East; and (6) despite repeated offers and tentative steps toward rapprochement with Iran by the Clinton Administration, including a decision to waive sanctions under th(3 Iran-Libya Sanctions Act and the President's veto of the Iran Missile Proliferation Sanctions Act, Iran has failed to reciprocate in a meaningful manner. (b) Therefore it is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the Administration should make no concessions to the Government of Iran unless and until that government moderates its objectionable policies, including taking steps to end its support of international terrorism, opposition to the Middle East peace process, and the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery; and (2) there should be no change in United States policy toward Iran luitil there is credible and sustained evidence of a change in Iranian policies. AID OFFICE OF SECURITY SEC. 587. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE.— There shall be estab- 22 USC 238i lished within the Office of the Administrator of the Agency for ^°^- International Development, an Office of Security. Such Office of Security shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law except section 207 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 and section 103 of Public Law 199-339, have the responsibility for the supervision, direction, and control of all security activities relating to the programs and operations of that Agency. (b) TRANSFER AND ALLOCATION OF APPROPRIATIONS AND PERSONNEL. — There are transferred to the Office of Security all security functions exercised by the Office of Inspector General of the Agency for International Development exercised before the date of enactment of this Act. The Administrator shall transfer from the Office of the Inspector General of such Agency to the Office of Security established by subsection (a), the ptersonnel (including the Senior Executive Service position designated for the Assistant Inspector General for Security), assets, liabilities, grants, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, and other funds held, used, available to, or to be made available in connection with such functions. Unexpended balances of appropriations, and other funds made available or to be made available in connection with such functions, shall be transferred to and merged with funds appropriated by this Act under the heading "Operating Expenses of the Agency for International Development". (c) TRANSFER OF EMPLOYEES.— Any employee in the career service who is trsinsferred pursuant to this section shall be placed in a position in the Office of Security established by subsection (a) which is comparable to the position the employee held in the Office of the Inspector General of the Agency for International Development.
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