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 106 STAT. 116 PUBLIC LAW 102-274—APR. 21, 1992 (A) to develop an emergency relief plan which meets the immediate basic human needs that arise as long as civil strife and famine afilict the region; (B) to promote immediately cease-fires, secure relief corridors, and an end to these conflicts; and (C) to provide creative developmental assistance which attacks the root causes of famine and war and assists these nations on the path to long-term security, reconstruction, voluntary repatriation, economic recovery, democracy, and peace, and which targets assistance to assist the poor majority more effectively. 22 USC 2151 SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY REGARDING INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES. (a) ETHIOPIA. —It is the sense of the Congress that the President should— (1) call upon the authorities who now exercise control over the central government in Ethiopia to protect the basic human rights of all citizens, to release from detention all political prisoners and other detainees who were apprehended by the Mengistu regime, and to facilitate the distribution of international relief and emergency humanitarian assistance throughout the country; (2) urge all authorities in Ethiopia to make good faith efforts to— (A) make permanent the cease-fire now in place and to permit the restoration of tranquility in the country, and (B) make arrangements for a transitional government that is broadly-based, that accommodates all appropriate points of view, that respects human rights, and that is committed to a process of reform leading to the writing of a constitution and the establishment of representative government; and (3) support efforts to ensure that the people of Eritrea are able to exercise their legitimate political rights, consistent with international law, including the right to participate actively in the determination of their political future, and call upon the authorities in Eritrea to keep open the ports of Mitsiwa and Aseb and to continue to permit the use of those ports for the delivery and distribution of humanitarian assistance to Eritrea and to Ethiopia as a whole. (b) SOMALIA.—It is the sense of the Congress that the President should— (1) use whatever diplomatic steps he considers appropriate to encourage a peaceful and democratic solution to the problems in Somalia; (2) commit increased diplomatic resources and energies to resolving the fundamental political conflicts which underlie the protracted humanitarian emergencies in Somalia; and (3) ensure, to the maximum extent possible and in conjunction with other donors, that emergency humanitarian assistance is being made available to those in need, and that none of the beneficiaries belong to military or paramilitary units. (c) SUDAN.— It is the sense of the Congress that the President should— (1) urge the Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People's Liberation Army to adopt at least a temporary cessation of

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