Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1990

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Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1990 - Title I: The Department of State - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations; Allocation of Funds - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 for the Department of State for: (1) administration of foreign affairs; (2) international organizations and conferences; (3) international commissions; and (4) migration and refugee assistance. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for the South Pacific Commission, refugees resettling in Israel, and displaced Tibetans in India and Nepal. Amends the Asia Foundation Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1990 for grants to the Asia Foundation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 to the Department of State for bilateral science and technology agreements and Soviet-East European research and training. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the transfer into the Buying Power Maintenance Account of amounts deobligated from accounts for the administration of foreign affairs. Provides that if an amount appropriated pursuant to an Act other than an appropriation Act is less than the authorization amount and the Act provides for earmarked funds, such funds shall be reduced to an amount bearing the same ratio to such funds as the amount appropriated bears to the authorization amount. Authorizes amounts appropriated to the Department of State to be obligated for 12 month contracts for two fiscal years, provided that the total amount is obligated in the earlier fiscal year. Part B: Department of State Authorities and Activities; Foreign Missions - Prohibits Federal officers and employees from soliciting funds for the purpose of furthering military, foreign policy, or intelligence activities prohibited or restricted by U.S. law. Prescribes penalties for such violations. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit the provision of U.S. assistance to a foreign country if the purpose of such assistance would be to further any military, foreign policy, or intelligence activities prohibited or restricted by U.S. law. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the Secretary of State to use appropriated funds for: (1) obligations assumed in Germany on or after June 5, 1945; (2) telecommunications services; and (3) the provision of maximum physical security in Government-owned and leased properties abroad. Authorizes special agents of the Department of State and the Foreign Service to make arrests without warrant for any offense concerning passport or visa issuance if there are grounds to believe that a person has committed or is committing such offense. Removes violations of specified sections of the criminal code from a list of violations for which such agents are authorized to make arrests without warrants. Authorizes funds appropriated in connection with the use of Blair House for FY 1990 to be credited to the appropriate account and to be available for maintenance and other expenses of Blair House. Allows the Secretary of State to require foreign missions to obtain benefits or comply with other terms of the Secretary if necessary to implement an exchange of property with a foreign country to be used in connection with diplomatic or consular establishments. Authorizes the Secretary, if determined that the purposes of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926 can best be met by such exchanges, to transfer funds for the acquisition and maintenance of buildings abroad to the Working Capital Fund. Permits only certain transferred funds to be used for such exchanges. Amends the International Center Act to authorize the Department of State to charge Federal agencies for the lease or use of International Center facilities used for security and maintenance. Authorizes the expenditure from appropriations available to the International Boundary and Water Commission for repairs of sanitation works threatened by the Colorado or Tijuana Rivers and for emergency actions against health threatening sanitation problems. Authorizes the President to carry out preliminary surveys, operations, and maintenance of the system constructed to intercept sewage flows from Tijuana and selected canyon areas. Prohibits the operation of the Anzalduas diversion dam for irrigation or water supply purposes in the United States unless arrangements have been made with the prospective water users for repayment to the Government of the allocated portions of such dam. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Commission, to conduct investigations relating to the drainage of transboundary waters between the United States and Mexico. Repeals a provision of a specified Act relating to the solemnization of marriages by consular officials. Adds the Department of State to the list of agencies to which criminal justice agencies are required to make available criminal record information regarding individuals under investigation by the Department for determining the eligibility of such individuals for access to classified information or assignment to sensitive national security duties. Authorizes the U.S. Postal Service to establish branch post offices at diplomatic posts abroad. Requires the Department of State to transfer postal revenues to the Service for expenses incurred in providing air mail services. Provides for such authority only to the extent that the total cost of such postal service does not exceed the cost of service incurred by the Department of State in the absence of such authority. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take all practicable steps to reopen the American consulate in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Provides that preferences for U.S. contractors under the Diplomatic Security Act shall not apply to the construction or renovation of the U.S. embassy in Ottawa, Canada. Requires the Secretary to report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the advisability of reorganizing the Department of State's regional and functional bureaus, including the creation of bureaus and the transfer of jurisdictional responsibilities. Directs the Secretary to earmark a specified amount of funds appropriated under this Act for FY 1990 for continued support for the establishment of a Latin American and Caribbean data base. Part C: Diplomatic Immunity, Reciprocity, and Security - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make ineligible to receive a visa and to exclude from admission into the United States any alien who has committed a serious criminal offense and for whom immunity from criminal jurisdiction was exercised with respect to such offense. Waives such excludability under certain conditions. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the feasibility of establishing a program to compensate U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens for physical injury or financial loss resulting from criminal activity committed by individuals with diplomatic immunity. Outlines the requirements of such report. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to prohibit the Soviet Union from occupying the chancery building on Mount Alto in Washington, D.C., until the President certifies to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that: (1) a new U.S. chancery building which can be safely and securely used has been completed in Moscow; and (2) all feasible steps have or will be taken to eliminate the damage to U.S. national security from electronic surveillance by Soviet facilities on Mount Alto. Requires the President to terminate a 1969 agreement (and related agreements, notes, and understanding) between the United States and the Soviet Union on reciprocal allocation for the free use of plots of land in Moscow and Washington, D.C., unless he certifies to the Speaker of the House and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman that the Soviet use of the Mount Alto facility does not pose a significantly greater threat to U.S. national security than the threat from existing Soviet facilities in Washington, D.C. Authorizes the President to waive such termination if he determines that it is in the interest of national security and reports to the Speaker of the House and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman on the reasons for such waiver. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the Secretary to make grants to child care facilities to offset the costs of such care in Moscow and at no more than five other posts abroad where the Secretary determines that such facilities are necessary to the efficient operation of the post. Amends the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 to exempt the Department of State from a prohibition on administering lie detector tests, in any counterintelligence function, to individuals working under Department contracts. Amends the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986 to direct the Secretary to: (1) develop policies to use persons with appropriate U.S. security clearances for maintenance and repair work in classified areas of U.S. diplomatic or consular posts abroad; and (2) report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the feasibility of requiring clearances for contractors performing such work in certain diplomatic facilities abroad. Part D: Personnel - Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to require the Secretary of the Treasury, at the direction of the Secretary of State and the election of a foreign national employee, to transfer such employee's interest in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund to a trust or other local retirement plan (except a social security plan). Deems such transfers to be a complete and final payment of benefits under Federal provisions governing civil service compensation. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to prohibit members of the Foreign Service selection boards from being foreign agents or from receiving income from foreign governments while serving on such boards. Authorizes judicial review of any separation for cause of a Foreign Service member. Provides that certain members of the Foreign Service who are separated for cause shall be subject to reinstatement with back pay unless convicted of a crime related to the separation for cause. Authorizes the establishment of a Visiting Scholars Program at the Foreign Service Institute. Prohibits extra credit for foreign service at an unhealthful post from being used to determine the eligibility of a person to qualify as a former spouse of a Foreign Service employee or to compute such person's pro rata share of employee credit. Prohibits such credit for service as a part of a tour of duty. Entitles qualified former spouses of former U.S. Information Agency (USIA) and Agency for International Development (AID) employees to Foreign Service health, retirement, and survivor benefits if such an employee retired before participation in the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System was possible and the marriage lasted at least five years during the overseas assignment. Makes technical amendments to provisions regarding the payment of travel expenses for Foreign Service members and their families in emergency situations. Revises Federal provisions regarding civil service compensation to extend the time period for which payments to employees whose evacuation has been ordered may be made. Revises Federal provisions regarding quarters, education, and cost-of-living allowances for Federal employees stationed in foreign countries. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the Secretary of State to make grants to post-secondary institutions or students (with special emphasis on minorities) to promote awareness of, and interest in, Foreign Service employment. Requires satisfactory educational progress by grant recipients for continued receipt of such grants. Requires recommendations made by the Foreign Service Grievance Board which were reviewed before the enactment of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to be considered final actions of the Department of State. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan to assure that equal efforts are undertaken in each region of the United States to recruit policy and professional Government service employees and Foreign Service officers for the Department of State and affiliated agencies. Requires the Secretary to implement such plan no later than January 1, 1990. Directs the Inspector General of the State Department to report to the Congress on the geographic, racial, ethnic, and gender composition of such employees and officers. Includes as a prohibited discriminatory Foreign Service personnel practice discrimination based on geographic or educational affiliation within the United States. Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to appoint an Ombudsman for Civil Service Employees unless such position has been filled. Part E: Foreign Language Competence Within the Foreign Service - Directs the Secretary to designate as model foreign language competence posts at least two Foreign Service posts in each of the Department of State's five geographic bureaus in countries where English is not the common language. Requires Government employees assigned to such posts to possess an appropriate level of competence in the language common to the foreign country. Provides that at least one of the designated posts shall be in a country where the principal language is Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, or Russian. Requires such posts to continue as model foreign language posts at least until September 30, 1993. Directs the Secretary to report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee on such program. Authorizes the Secretary to make exceptions to the requirements of the program if unanticipated exigencies so require. Prohibits certain posts from being designated as model foreign language posts under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on an entrance requirement for the Foreign Service of at least one world language at the S-3/R-3 level or one nonworld language at the S-2/R-2 level. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Foreign Service promotion panels should: (1) only promote candidates to the Senior Foreign Service who have demonstrated foreign language proficiency in at least one language at the S-3/R-3 level; (2) strive for a minimum proficiency in two such languages; and (3) have at least one person on each such panel who has attained at least the S-3/R-3 level. Directs the Department of State, AID, and USIA to revise the evaluation reports for foreign service officers to include an assessment of an employee's performance in each foreign language tested at the S-3/R-3 level. Requires the directors of personnel at such agencies to instruct promotion panels to take account of language ability and give precedence in promotions to officers who have achieved such level in one or more foreign languages. Title II: United States Information Agency - Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1990 for USIA; (2) U.S. participation in the World's Fair in Seville, Spain; and (3) FY 1990 to carry out the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West Act of 1960. Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) Voice of America (VOA); (2) radio construction; (3) the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs; and (4) the National Endowment for Democracy. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for: (1) VOA Cuba Service; (2) the Fulbright Academic Program; (3) the International Visitors Program; (4) the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program; (5) Congress-Bundestag Exchanges; (6) the Samantha Smith Programs; (7) the Arts America Program; (8) the Office of Citizen Exchanges; (9) the Edward Zorinsky Memorial Library in Jakarta, Indonesia; and (10) research exchanges with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Amends the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986 to modify the preference for U.S. contractors with respect to certain bids for diplomatic construction involving physical or technical security. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to require the USIA Director to make available to the Archivist of the United States for domestic distribution 12 years after the initial dissemination motion pictures, films, and other materials prepared for dissemination abroad. Authorizes the USIA Director to acquire time on commercial or U.S. Government satellites to transmit USIA materials and programs to posts and other users abroad. Outlines the programs authorized to be transmitted. Requires the Director to give preferences to programs produced by American commercial and public television where such programs are available at a reasonable cost. Authorizes the transmission of public and commercial programs only if such programs: (1) are comprised of news, public affairs, artistic, cultural, or scientific programming; and (2) have been or are being broadcast in the United States. Earmarks specified amounts of funds made available to USIA under this Act for the purchase or use of programs produced with grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting or produced by U.S. public television networks. Requires satellite time not utilized by USIA to be made available to other Government agencies without cost. Authorizes time not utilized by the Government to be sold to commercial users. Waives certain restrictions concerning television broadcasting under the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 for FY 1990. Requires USIA to promote, and provide assistance to facilitate, access in foreign countries to the news and public affairs programming of U.S. commercial and public television networks. Prohibits VOA from selecting candidates who must be or are preapproved for employment by a foreign government or entity. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to participants in VOA's exchange programs or clerical, technical, or maintenance staff at VOA offices in foreign countries. Requires the USIA Director, in the event that such prohibition would require the discontinuation of a specific VOA foreign language service, to report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on: (1) the number and location of speakers of that foreign language who could be recruited without violating the prohibition; and (2) the efforts made by VOA to recruit such persons for employment. Revises provisions regarding the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Authorizes the credit of payments for USIA-produced publications and USIA English-teaching and library programs to the applicable appropriation. Amends the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 to redesignate the Board of Foreign Scholarships as the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board. Requires the Board to ensure that academic and artistic freedoms of grant recipients are protected. Establishes within the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs an Office of Citizen Exchanges to support private nonprofit organizations engaged in such exchanges between the United States and other countries. Authorizes the President to negotiate and implement an agreement with the Soviet Union under which repayments by the Soviet Union on lend-lease debts to the United States would be used to finance educational, artistic, and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union. Requires at least 30 Hubert H. Humphrey scholarships to be made available to Tibetan students and professionals outside Tibet. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit nonresident aliens who receive U.S. Government funds for certain study, scholarly activities, and training to exclude such amounts from gross income for up to five years. Directs USIA to establish and maintain through VOA a system of international public service announcements focusing on child survival techniques. Requires the USIA Director to: (1) establish VOA broadcasts to Tibet to occur at least two hours daily; and (2) report to the Congress on such programming. Directs the Director to maintain and submit to the Congress an Afghanistan country plan. Requires the Director to make available to the Archivist of the United States a master copy of the film entitled "Long Journey Home." Directs the Archivist to reimburse the Director for any expenses incurred in making such film available and to make such film available for purchase and public viewing in the United States. Title III: Board for International Broadcasting - Amends the Board of International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations to the Board for International Broadcasting for FY 1990. Authorizes appropriations to the Board for FY 1990 for radio transmitter construction and modernization and construction of a relay station in Israel. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to extend the authority of the Secretary to procure legal services to the chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting. Title IV: International Organizations - Authorizes the President to continue U.S. membership in the International Sugar Organization. Allows U.S. contributions to such organization to be paid from funds appropriated for contributions to international organizations, beginning in FY 1991. Urges the President to protect the independence of the international civil service at the United Nations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should ensure that the United Nations continues to pay sufficient attention to the United States and other major financial contributors in decision-making procedures on budgetary matters. Directs the President to withhold up to 20 percent of funds for the U.S. assessed contribution to the United Nations or its agencies until the President determines that the United Nations or any such agency: (1) has continued implementing decision-making procedures in such a manner; (2) is making progress toward the elimination of secondment in the United Nations Secretariat; or (3) is implementing the 15 percent reduction in staff of the Secretariat and such reduction is being equitably applied among the nationals on such staff. Requires the President to notify the Congress when making such determinations. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate on the voting practices of governments represented at the United Nations and the responsiveness of such governments to U.S. policy. Outlines the requirements of such report. Repeals provisions of specified Acts concerning such voting practices. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should monitor closely the changes achieved in UNESCO and should work with U.S. allies and UNESCO leadership to promote U.S. reentry in UNESCO as soon as possible. Prohibits any funds authorized to be appropriated under this or any other Act from being available to the United Nations or any specialized agency which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) the same standing as member states. Title V: Refugee and Other Provisions - Amends the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 to make technical amendments to a provision regarding audits of funds received by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to: (1) commendations to Malawi and Pakistan for their treatment of Afghan and Mozambican refugees; (2) commitments to facilitating the departure of Jews and other religious minorities from the Soviet Union; (3) the protection and asylum of Southeast Asian refugees and a review of the orderly departure program from Vietnam; (4) the forcible repatriation of Mozambicans by the Government of South Africa and the Secretary's required report on Mozambicans seeking to enter South Africa; and (5) actions by the Government of Ethiopia to improve the situation of Sudanese and Somalian refugees and the Secretary's required report on such actions. Repeals a provision of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 concerning the effective date for a prohibition on the exclusion or deportation of certain aliens. Title VI: Global Environment Protection Act - Global Environmental Protection Assistance Act of 1989 - Part A: Commercial Debt-for-Nature Exchanges - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the AID Administrator to furnish grants to nongovernmental organizations for the purchase of a foreign government's discounted commercial debt which will be canceled as part of a debt-for-nature exchange. Directs the Administrator to identify areas which are in particular need of immediate attention to prevent the loss of unique biological life or a valuable ecosystem. Requires the Administrator, in order for a country to be eligible for a debt-for-nature exchange, to determine that the country has a long-term plan and an agency to oversee the long-term viability of a nature program. Prohibits the U.S. Government from accepting title or interest in any land in a foreign country as a condition of the debt exchange. Requires the Administrator to invite the government of each Subsaharan African country to submit a list of: (1) areas of severely degraded natural resources which threaten human survival and well-being and the opportunity for future economic growth; or (2) areas of biological and ecological importance in such country. Directs the Administrator to reach agreement with a host country for the restoration and sustainable use of such areas. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to nongovernmental organizations for the purchase of such countries' discounted commercial debt in exchange for such countries' commitments to restore natural resources and develop plans for sustainable use of such resources. Part B: Multilateral Foreign Assistance Cooperation - Declares that the Secretary, acting through the Development Assistance committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, should initiate negotiations among member countries on a coordinated approach to global warming, tropical deforestation, sustainable development, and biological diversity through bilateral assistance programs. Part C: International Debt Exchanges and the Environment - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President, acting through the Secretary, should include support for sustainable development and conservation projects when negotiating exchanges or reductions of commercial debt of foreign countries. Directs the Secretary to report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the Speaker of the House on: (1) the methods to be used to incorporate environmental considerations into debt restructuring plans; and (2) the support provided to conservation and sustainable development projects in a host country, with each major agreement to restructure a country's foreign debt. Part D: Wildlife and Nature Protection - Prohibits ivory or other elephant products from being imported into the United States or sold in any Federal facility if such products: (1) originated from a country where significant numbers of elephants are killed illegally or killed in numbers sufficient to reduce the optimal sustainable elephant population in such country; or (2) were traded in a country where there is significant trade or transit traffic in the products of illegally killed elephants. Makes this prohibition inapplicable to antique ivory. Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register a list of all foreign countries from which such imports are prohibited. Defines significant trade and transit traffic as ivory valued at more than $200,000 or the product of more than 100 elephants. Authorizes the President to maintain U.S. membership in the International Tropical Timber Organization and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 for U.S. contributions to and participation in: (1) the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; (2) the International Tropical Timber Organization; (3) the World Heritage Convention; and (4) the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Part E: Global Warming - Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the feasibility of establishing a global warming prevention information network to disseminate information to foreign governments and citizens. Part F: International Environmental Education - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should promote and support assistance to nongovernmental independent libraries in regions with ecological crises and limited access to literature related to such crises and contributions of corporate book inventories and other items related to environmental protection to charitable organizations assisting in such regions; and (2) the Internal Revenue Service should interpret the Internal Revenue Code to include within the term "needy" libraries in regions of environmental crisis that lack the capacity to acquire basic environmental science literature. Title VII: Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act - Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act - Directs USIA to provide television broadcasting to Cuba. Requires the USIA Director to establish a Television Marti Service to be responsible for such broadcasts. Designates such broadcasts as the USIA Television Marti Program. Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allocate a spectrum for such broadcasts, except that no such allocation shall result in objectionable interference with domestic broadcasts. Prohibits such broadcasts if the FCC determines that such broadcasts are causing interference with domestic broadcasts. Requires the FCC to assist domestic licensees in overcoming the adverse effects of interference caused by the Service. Prohibits Federal agencies from compelling domestic licensees to change frequencies in order to eliminate interference caused by Service broadcasting. Requires the FCC to monitor and periodically report to appropriate congressional committees on interference from Cuban radio and television stations and from television broadcasting to Cuba. Authorizes assistance to USIA from other Federal agencies to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits such funds from being expended unless the President notifies the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that such broadcasting is feasible pursuant to a test under the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989 and will not cause objectionable interference. Requires the President to report the findings of such test to the Congress. Amends the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act to redesignate the Advisory Board for Radio Broadcasting to Cuba as the Advisory Board for Cuba Broadcasting. Revises administrative provisions regarding the Board. Title VIII: PLO Commitments Compliance Act of 1989 - PLO Commitments Compliance Act of 1989 - Reiterates the U.S. policy that any dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) shall be contingent upon the PLO's recognition of Israel's right to exist, its acceptance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and its abstention from, and renunciation of, all acts of terrorism. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States, in any discussions with the PLO, should seek: (1) the prevention of terrorism and other violent activity by the PLO or its factions; and (2) the implementation of concrete steps by the PLO consistent with its commitments to recognize Israel and renounce terrorism. Requires the U.S. representative, during the next round of talks with the PLO, to obtain from the PLO representative a full accounting of specified attempted incursions into Israel which occurred after Yasser Arafat's statement of December 14, 1988. Directs the Secretary to report to the Senate any such accounting. Requires the President, as long as the dialogue between the United States and the PLO continues, to report every 120 days to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the PLO's progress in achieving concrete actions to further the peace process. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on policies of Arab states toward the Middle East peace process, including: (1) public recognition of Israel's right to exist in peace and security; (2) ending the Arab economic boycott of Israel; and (3) ending efforts to expel Israel from international organizations or denying participation in such organizations. Title IX: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for FY 1990 for the Inter-American Foundation. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to credit certain munitions control registration fees to a Department of State account for FY 1990. Sets forth procedures for issuances of commercial arms export licenses under the Arms Export Control Act. Requires the office primarily responsible for export licensing functions, as part of such procedures, to report semiannually to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the percentage of cases handled that have fallen within required processing time frames. Prohibits the sale or transfer of any defense article on the U.S. Munitions List to China if such equipment is used by China to enforce martial law or suppress demonstrations in Tibet or to violate Tibetan human rights. Requires the President, before the issuance of any export license to China of an item on the List, to certify to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that no defense article has been or is being used for such purposes. Terminates this section on October 1, 1993. Directs the Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics Matters, for each country in which the Department of State uses, or approves for use, a herbicide for the aerial eradication of coca or opium, to report to the Congress on: (1) the expected impact of eradication on the price and availability of cocaine and heroin in the United States; (2) the extent to which such eradication could encourage coca or opium growers to align themselves with insurgent groups against legitimate governments; (3) the total dollar amount of assistance from the United States, international organizations, and local governments to help coca and opium growers in eradication zones shift to production of licit crops; and (4) what countermeasures may be taken by such growers and illicit drug cartels in response to eradication. Prohibits the use or deployment of equipment or aircraft made available to foreign countries for narcotics control under such Act in locations where U.S. Government representatives are not permitted free access by a foreign government. Directs the Secretary and the U.S. Trade Representative to report to the Congress on: (1) the feasibility and effect of a meeting among Canada, Mexico, and the United States to discuss greater economic integration and cooperation; (2) the factors related to an economically integrated and cooperative border region between Mexico and the United States; and (3) the adequacy of Federal agencies' resources to handle the increased work load resulting from such integration. Requires members of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board to file biannual financial disclosure reports with the Office of Government Ethics. Declares that it is in the interest of the United States to pursue the establishment of a Pacific Basin Forum for the discussion of economic, diplomatic, and other issues unique to the region. Urges the President to call for an annual summit meeting with the leaders of key Pacific Rim nations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the leadership of China should take all necessary steps to establish a just and democratic society, with a free and open political system that will protect the essential human rights of China's people; and (2) the Secretary should communicate to the Chinese leadership that official violence directed at those who peacefully demonstrate for democracy, liberty, and justice will seriously damage relations with the United States. Urges the United States to recognize the bicentennial of Benjamin Franklin's death and calls on Federal agencies to recognize the preservation goals of the Friends of Benjamin Franklin House and the American Franklin Friends Committee. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the feasibility of negotiating an international agreement to establish an international agricultural conservation reserve to protect fragile agricultural soils. Requests the President to consider adopting a new policy to allow U.S. agents to board foreign fishing vessels engaged in fishing activities in international waters beyond the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone in cases where there is reason to believe that such vessels are violating U.S. or international fisheries laws. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should initiate the establishment of a COCOM-type organization of supplier nations to coordinate policies to control the export of chemicals, biological agents, technology, equipment, and any other materiel that can be used for manufacturing of chemical and biological weapons.

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