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 PUBLIC LAW 105-262—OCT. 17, 1998 112 STAT. 2335 as the minimum age for military recruitment and participation in armed conflict. (b) IN GENERAL. —The Congress hereby— (1) deplores the global use of child soldiers and supports their immediate demobilization; (2) condemns the abduction of Ugandan children by the LRA; (3) calls on the Government of Sudan to use its influence with the LRA to secure the release of abducted children and to halt further abductions; and (4) encourages the United States delegation not to block the drafting of an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child that would establish 18 as the minimum age for participation in armed conflict. (c) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS. —I t is the sense of the Congress that the President and the Secretary of State should— (1) support efforts to end the abduction of children by the LRA, secure their release, and facilitate their rehabilitation and reintegration into society; (2) not block efforts to establish 18 as the minimum age for participation in conflict through an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child; and (3) provide greater support to United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations working for the rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers into society. SEC. 8129. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Defense shall obligate the funds provided for Counterterror Technical Support in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1998 (under title IV of Public Law 105-56) for the projects and in the amounts provided for in House Report 105-265 of the House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session: Provided, That the funds available for the Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis Project should be executed through cooperation with the Office of National Drug Control Policy. SEC. 8130. TRAINING AND OTHER PROGRAMS, (a) PROHIBITION. — None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to support any training program involving a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of Defense has received credible information from the Department of State that a member of such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. (b) MONITORING. —Not more than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall establish procedures to ensure that prior to a decision to conduct any training program referred to in subsection (a), full consideration is given to all information available to the Department of State relating to human rights violations by foreign security forces. (c) WAIVER. —The Secretary of Defense, after consultation with the Secretary of State, may waive the prohibition in subsection (a) if he determines that such waiver is required by extraordinary circumstances. (d) REPORT. —Not more than 15 days after the exercise of any waiver under subsection (c), the Secretary of Defense shall submit a report to the congressional defense committees describing the extraordinary circumstances, the purpose and duration of the training program, the United States forces and the foreign security Human rights. Deadline. Procedures. Deadline.

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