I rise to introduce the Iraqi Embargo Compliance Enforcement Act. I hope that many of my colleagues will join with me and cosponsor this bill. which I intend to offer as an amendment to the fiscal year 1991 foreign aid appropriations bill. This legislation provides that a country which violates the United Nations embargo against Iraq may not receive United States military or economic aid unless the President certifies to Congress any one of the following: First. it is in our national interest to provide such aid. second. the aid would be used to provide humanitarian assistance to refugees In that country. third. the aid will directly benefit the needy people in such country. or fourth. the government is making a good faith effort to comply with the embargo. It is my intent that under this legislation. countries which send food and medicine under the United Nations humanitariah circumstances exception to the embargo. consistent with the conditions laid down by the United States and the Soviet Union in their Joint communique. shall not be considered to be in violation of the embargo. Mr.
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