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 110 STAT. 708 PUBLIC LAW 104-107—FEB. 12, 1996 22 USC 2151U note. the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, of the funds appropriated under this heading not to exceed a total of $30,000,000 may be transferred to "International Organizations and Programs" for a contribution to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and that any such transfer of funds shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That not less than $650,000 of the funds made available under this heading should be made available for support of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute. CYPRUS Of the funds appropriated under the headings "Development Assistance" and "Economic Support Fund", not less than $15,000,000 shall be made available for Cyprus to be used only for scholarships, administrative support of the scholarship program, bicommunal projects, and measures aimed at reunification of the island and designed to reduce tensions and promote peace and cooperation between the two communities on Cyprus. BURMA Of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out the provisions of chapter 8 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not less than $2,380,000 shall be made available to support activities in Burma, along the Burma-Thailand border, and for activities of Burmese student groups and other organizations located outside Burma, for the purposes of fostering democracy in Burma, supporting the provision of medical supplies and other humanitarian assistance to Burmese located in Burma or displaced Burmese along the borders, and for other purposes: Provided, That of this amount, not less than $200,000 shall be made available to support newspapers, publications, and other media activities promoting democracy inside Burma: Provided further. That of this amount, not less than $380,000 shall be made available for crop substitution activities in cooperation with the Kachin people of Burma: Provided further. That funds made available under this heading may be made available notwithstanding any other provision of law: Provided further. That provision of such funds shall be made available subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. PRIVATE AND VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act for development assistance may be made available to any United States private and voluntary organization, except any cooperative development organization, which obtains less than 20 per centum of its total annual funding for international activities from sources other than the United States Government: Provided, That the requirements of the provisions of section 123(g) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the provisions on private and voluntary organizations in title II of the "Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1985" (as enacted in Public Law 98-473) shall be superseded by the provisions of this section, except that the authority contained in the last sentence of section 123(g) may be exercised by the Administrator with regard to the requirements of this paragraph.

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