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 PUBLIC LAW 105-375 —NOV. 12, 1998 112 STAT. 3385 Public Law 105-375 105th Congress An Act To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require the -^ Secretary of State to submit an annual report to Congress concerning diplomatic —'. immunity. fS. 759] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. REPORTS AND POLICY CONCERNING DIPLOMATIC IMMU- NITY. Title I, of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.; commonly referred to as the "Foreign Missions Act") is amended by inserting after section 204A the following new section: "SEC. 204B. CRIMES COMMITTED BY DIPLOMATS. 22 USC 4304b. " (a) ANNUAL REPORT CONCERNING DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY.— "(1) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary of State shall prepare and submit to the Congress, annually, a report concerning diplomatic immunity entitled "Report on Cases Involving Diplomatic Immunity". "(2) CONTENT OF REPORT.—In addition to such other information as the Secretary of State may consider appropriate, the report under paragraph (1) shall include the following: "(A) The number of persons residing in the United States who enjoy full immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United States under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities. "(B) Each case involving an alien described in subparagraph (A) in which an appropriate authority of a State, a political subdivision of a State, or the United States reported to the Department of State that the authority had reasonable cause to believe the alien committed a serious criminal offense within the United States, and any additional information provided to the Secretary relating to other serious criminal offenses that any such authority had reasonable cause to believe the alien committed before the period covered by the report. The Secretary may omit from such report any matter the provision of which the Secretary reasonably believes would compromise a criminal investigation or prosecution or which would directly compromise law enforcement or intelligence sources or methods. "(C) Each case described in subparagraph (B) in which the Secretary of State has certified that a person enjoys full immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United

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