Our foreign policy needs such a framework in order to clarify areas of congressional concern. I also support this amendment because the text of H.R. 5119. which this amendment seeks to incorporate in the continuing resolution. has a number of very positive features. particularly as it addresses issues of human rights and economic development. For example. this amendment would provide the following: $1.6 billion in bilateral development assistance for basic human needs in developing countries. $25 million for a new "Child Survival Fund". $97.5 million for the Sahel Development Program. $75 million for a new Economic Policy Initiative for Africa. $3 million for the African Development Foundation. $279 million for voluntary contributions to international organizations. including $53.5 million for UNICEF. provisions to ensure that assistance is targeted on those living in absolute poverty. a 10 percent setaside for minority businesses from AID funds. $15 million for refugees and displaced persons in Africa. $134 million for the Peace Corps. $16 million for disaster relief assistance to famine victims in Africa. prohibitions on aid to Chile. Uruguay. and Paraguay. $45 million for Eastern Caribbean countries. $50 million for economically disadvantaged students from Latin America and the Caribbean. and conditions on aid to Haiti. As chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Task Force on Haitian Refugees. I am especially appreciative of the language in this amendment which sets conditions on aid to Haiti. Concern is expressed for the promotion and protection of human rights in Haiti by conditioning assistance on certification by the President that the Government of Haiti "is making a concerted and significant effort to improve the human rights situation in Haiti by implementing the political reforms which are essential to the development of democracy in Haiti. including steps toward the establishment of political parties. free elections. and freedom of the press." Most importantly. this section continues the requirement that the President shall report to the Congress every 6 months on the human rights situation in Haiti.
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