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 108 STAT. 1636 PUBLIC LAW 103-306 —AUG. 23, 1994 Control Act may be used to provide financing to Israel and Egypt and NATO and major non-NATO allies for the procurement by leasing (including leasing with an option to purchase) of defense articles from United States commercial suppliers, not including Major Defense Equipment (other than helicopters and other t3rpes of aircraft having possible civilian application), if the President determines that there are compelling foreign policy or national security reasons for those defense articles being provided by commercial lease rather than by government-to-government sale under such Act. COMPETITIVE INSURANCE SEC. 531. All Agency for International Development contracts and solicitations, and subcontracts entered into under such contracts, shall include a clause requiring that United States insurance companies have a fair opportunity to bid for insurance when such insurance is necessary or appropriate. STINGERS IN THE PERSIAN GULF REGION SEC. 532. Except as provided in section 581 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990, the United States may not sell or otherwise make available any Stingers to any country bordering the Persian Gulf under the Arms Export Control Act or chapter 2 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. PROHIBITION ON LEVERAGING AND DIVERSION OF UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE SEC. 533. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be provided to any foreign government (including any instrumentality or agency thereof), foreign person, or United States person in exchange for that foreign government or person undertaking any action which is, if carried out by the United States Government, a United States official or employee, expressly prohibited by a provision of United States law. (b) For the purposes of this section the term "funds appropriated by this Act" includes only (1) assistance of any kind under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; and (2) credits, and guaranties under the Arms Export Control Act. (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit— (1) the ability of the President, the Vice President, or any official or employee of the United States to make statements or otherwise express their views to any party on any subject; (2) the ability of an official or employee of the United States to express the policies of the President; or (3) the ability of an official or employee of the United States to communicate with any foreign country government, group or individual, either directly or through a third party, with respect to the prohibitions of this section including the reasons for such prohibitions, and the actions, terms, or conditions which might lead to the removal of the prohibitions of this section.

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