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George P. Radanovich: “Amendment offered by Mr. Radanovich: Page 97, after line 5, insert the following new section: limitation on assistance…”

On the recordJune 5, 1996
Amendment offered by Mr. Radanovich: Page 97, after line 5, insert the following new section: limitation on assistance to turkey Sec. 573. Not more than $22,000,000 of the funds appropriated in this Act under the heading "Economic Support Fund" may be made available to the Government of Turkey, except when it is made known to the Federal official having authority to obligate or expend such funds that the Government of Turkey has (1) joined the United States in acknowledging the atrocity committed against the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923; and (2) taken all appropriate steps to honor the memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide.
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George P. Radanovich
California
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Proposing an amendment regarding U.S. assistance to Turkey related to the acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide.

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