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 91 STAT. 1070 Executive Directors, policy considerations.

Annual reports to Speaker of the House and President of the Senate.

Financial or technical assistance, prohibition.

Repeals.

Standard for human needs and protection of human rights, development. 22 USC 262c note.

PUBLIC LAW 95-118—OCT. 3, 1977 (b) Further, the Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct each Executive Director of the above institutions to consider in carrying out his duties: (1) specific actions by either the executive branch or the Congress as a whole on individual bilateral assistance programs because of human rights considerations; (2) the extent to which the economic assistance provided by the above institutions directly benefit the needy people in the recipient country; (3) whether the recipient country has detonated a nuclear device or is not a State Party to the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons or both; and (4) in relation to assistance for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, and Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia), the responsiveness of the governments of such countries in providing a more substantial accounting of Americans missing in action. (c) The Secretaries of State and Treasury shall report annually to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate on the progress toward achieving the goals of this title, including the listing required in subsection (d). (d) The United States Government, in connection with its voice and vote in the institutions listed in subsection (a), shall seek to channel assistance to projects which address basic human needs of the people of the recipient country. The annual report required under subsection (c) shall include a listing of categories of such assistance granted, with particular attention to categories that address basic human needs. (e) In determining whether a country is in gross violation of internationaly recognized human rights standards, as defined by the provisions of subsection (a), the United States Government shall give consideration to the extent of cooperation of such country in permitting an unimpeded investigation of alleged violations of internationaly recognized human rights by appropriate international organizations including, but not limited to, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, and groups or persons acting under the authority of the United Nations or the Organization of American States. (f) The United States Executive Directors of the institutions listed in subsection (a) are authorized and instructed to oppose any loan, any extension of financial assistance, or any technical assistance to any country described in subsection (a)(1) or (2), unless such assistance is directed specifically to programs which serve the basic human needs of the citizens of such country. SEC. 702. Section 28 of the Inter-American Development Bank Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 283y), section 211 of the Act of May 31, 1976 (22 U.S.C. 290g-9), and section 15 of the International Development Association Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 284m), are repealed. SEC. 703. (a) The Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury shall initiate a wide consultation designed to develop a viable standard for the meeting of basic human needs and the protection of human rights and a mechanism for acting together to insure that the rewards of international economic cooperation are especially available to those who subscribe to such standards and are seen to be moving

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