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 PUBLIC LAW 97-113—DEC. 29, 1981

95 STAT. 1547

ation Act, 1962, or any other provision of law, the currencies or '^^ Stat. 283. credits received by the United States from the April 1981 sale and from the October 1981 sale of United States Government-held surplus dairy products to Poland shall, to such extent as may be provided in advance in an appropriation Act, be used by the President in Poland to serve United States interests, including use for activities of common benefit to the people of the United States and the people of Poland, such as joint programs in energy, agriculture, education, science, health, and culture, or for humanitarian activities. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the availability or expenditure of such foreign currencies or credits shall not affect or reduce appropriations otherwise available for the purposes described in subsection (a). FINDINGS REGARDING GLOBAL SECURITY

SEC. 710. (a) The Congress finds that the security of the United States and other countries is increasingly affected by a broad range of global problems including shortages or potential shortages of food, oil, water, wood, and other basic mineral and natural resources; desperate poverty; sickness; population pressures; environmental deterioration, including soil erosion and water pollution; and largescale and destabilizing refugee problems. (b) The Congress finds that hunger, disease, and extreme poverty are among the most critical of these global problems. As ever greater numbers of people perceive the disparity between their own continuing deprivation and the prosperity of others, and judge their predicament to be neither just nor inevitable, it becomes increasingly likely that there will be unrest and violence with consequent disruption of the flow of essential materials, adverse effects on the world economy, decreased likelihood of cooperative efforts toward meeting the other critical problems threatening national and global security, and increased likelihood of confrontation between nations which possess nuclear arms. (c) Therefore, the Congress finds that the Nation's understanding of global and national security must be broad enough to include the problems cited in this section, and that adequate protection of the security of the United States requires effective action on these global problems, and in particular on the problems of hunger, disease, and extreme poverty. WORLD FOOD SECURITY RESERVES

SEC. 711. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) the Congress recently passed and the President signed into law an Act which provides for establishment of a United States food security reserve of up to four million metric tons of wheat to be used for emergency food assistance; (2) the food import needs of developing countries will increase over the next ten years; and (3) other grain exporting countries could take additional steps to assure continuity of food assistance during food crisis years. (b) The President shall encourage other grain exporting countries to establish their own food security reserves or take other measures that complement the United States food security reserve. (c) The President shall report to the Speaker of the House of Report to Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Congress.

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