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[CITE: 50USC2363]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
         CHAPTER 40--DEFENSE AGAINST WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
 
                       SUBCHAPTER V--MISCELLANEOUS
 
Sec. 2363. Sense of Congress concerning assistance to states of 
        former Soviet Union
        
    It is the sense of Congress that--
        (1) the Cooperative Threat Reduction programs and other United 
    States programs authorized in title XIV of the National Defense 
    Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102-484; 22 
    U.S.C. 5901 et seq.) should be expanded by offering assistance under 
    those programs to other independent states of the former Soviet 
    Union in addition to Russia, Ukraine, Kazakstan, and Belarus; and
        (2) the President should offer assistance to additional 
    independent states of the former Soviet Union in each case in which 
    the participation of such states would benefit national security 
    interests of the United States by improving border controls and 
    safeguards over materials and technology associated with weapons of 
    mass destruction.

(Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title XIV, Sec. 1453, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 
Stat. 2730; Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title X, Sec. 1069(c)(4), Oct. 17, 
1998, 112 Stat. 2136.)

                       References in Text

    Title XIV of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
1993, referred to in par. (1), is title XIV of div. A of Pub. L. 102-
484, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2563, known as the Former Soviet Union 
Demilitarization Act of 1992, which is classified generally to chapter 
68 (Sec. 5901 et seq.) of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.


                               Amendments

    1998--Par. (1). Pub. L. 105-261 substituted ``title XIV of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102-
484; 22 U.S.C. 5901 et seq.)'' for ``the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Years 1993 and 1994''.


          Specification of Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

    For specification of Cooperative Threat Reduction programs, see 
section 1501(b) of Pub. L. 104-201, set out as a note under section 2362 
of this title.
