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 103 STAT. 2520 PUBLIC LAW 101-240—DEC. 19, 1989 SEC 603. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS RELATING TO CONDITIONAL FINAN- CIAL ASSISTANCE BY MULTILATERAL LENDING INSTITUTIONS TO POLAND. It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of the Treasury should instruct the United States Executive Directors of the multi- lateral development banks (as defined in section 1617 of the Inter- national Financial Institutions Act), of the International Monetary Fund, of the International Finance Corporation, and of the Multilat- eral Investment Guarantee Agency to enter into discussions with the other executive directors of such institutions and propose that such institutions not provide financial assistance or debt forgiveness to Poland until the government of Poland allows and facilitates privately owned entities established in foreign countries to invest in private commercial ventures in Poland. SEC 604. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS OPPOSING THE BIAKING OF CERTAIN , LOANS OR THE EXTENSION OF CERTAIN FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— (1) the Government of the People's Republic of China ordered the People's Liberation Army to brutally attack peaceful dem- onstrators who had assembled in Tiananmen Square; (2) this attack violated the human rights of the demon- strators; (3) several thousand innocent and defenseless protesters were f killed in the initial assault; FangLizhi. (4) these violations of human rights have evolved into a Li Shuxian. ' pattern of continuing repression and reprisals against citizens throughout China as evidenced by the beating of alleged dis- sidents, the order to the army to shoot "rioters"—^the Chinese Government's term for the peaceful demonstrators—on sight, the mass arrest of students and workers, the public declarations ' * by governmentcontrolled media that physicists Fang Lizhi and Li Shuxian (who are being given refuge in the United States Embassy in Benin^ are ''guilty" before being afforded due process, and the banning of all independent, unofficial prodemocracy organizations; (5) the (xovernment of the People's Republic of C!hina is trying to suppress truthful accounts of the actions taken in Be^'ing and throughout the country, by, among other things, expelling for- eign journalists, including the local bureau chief of the Voice of America, from the country; (6) the People's RepiiJI>lic of China has received almost $8,000,000,000 in development loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and increasing amounts of assistance from the Asian Development Bank; (7) it is morally repugnant that, through such multilateral development banks, United States taxpayer dollars are used to support the present policies of the People's Republic of China; (8) such development loans cannot be justified on economic grounds because economic development and market reforms cannot be achieved in the environment of repression that now clearly exists there; and (9) the People's Republic of China is engaging in "a pattern of gross violations of internationaly recognized human rights...

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