FRIENDSHIP Act of 1993

FRIENDSHIP Act of 1993

Long title	An Act for reform in emerging new democracies and support and help for improved partnership with Russia, Ukraine, and other new independent states of the former Soviet Union.
Nicknames	FRIENDSHIP Act
Enacted by	the 103rd United States Congress
Effective	December 17, 1993
Citations
Public law	103-199
Statutes at Large	107 Stat. 2317
Codification
Titles amended	22 U.S.C.: Foreign Relations and Intercourse 50 U.S.C.: War and National Defense
U.S.C. sections amended	22 U.S.C. ch. 33 §§ 2458, 2460, 2461 22 U.S.C. ch. 55 § 4501 et seq. 22 U.S.C. ch. 67 § 5801 et seq. 50 U.S.C. ch. 23 § 781 et seq. 50a U.S.C. § 2401 50a U.S.C. § 2402 50a U.S.C. § 2403-1
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 3000 by Dick Gephardt (D-MO) on August 6, 1993 Committee consideration by House Armed Services, House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House Foreign Affairs, House Intelligence (Permanent), House Judiciary, House Post Office and Civil Service, House Ways and Means Passed the House on November 15, 1993 (Passed voice vote) Passed the Senate on November 22, 1993 (Passed voice vote, in lieu of S. 1672) with amendment House agreed to Senate amendment on November 23, 1993 (Agreed without objection) Signed into law by President William J. Clinton on December 17, 1993

The FRIENDSHIP Act of 1993 was enacted as a law of the United States enhancing prior statutory provisions which govern international relations between the former Republics of the Soviet Union and United States during the Cold War. The Act of Congress reformed United States statutes related to:

• Armament export controls as related to military technology transfer limitations
• Continental cultural and educational exchange
• Cooperative foreign trade relations
• Diplomatic relations with foreign allies
• Global environmental shifts
• Immigration and nationality requirements
• International products exports
• Societal propagandization as related to multicultural social ideology

The H.R. 3000 legislation was passed by the 103rd United States Congressional session and enacted into law by the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton on December 17, 1993.

Titles of the Act

The 1993 Act was penned as nine titles establishing purposeful foreign relations as related to the development of emerging democracies and improved multinational partnerships.

Title I: Policy of Friendship and Cooperation

Statement of purpose

Findings

Statutory provisions that have been applicable to the Soviet Union.

Title II: Trade and Business Relations

Policy under Export Administration Act

Representation of countries of Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the former Soviet Union in legal commercial transactions

Procedures regarding transfers of certain Department of Defense-funded items

Soviet slave labor

Title III: Cultural, Educational, and Other Exchange Programs

Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961

Soviet-Eastern European research and training

Fascell Fellowship Act

Board for International Broadcasting Act

Scholarship programs for developing countries

Report on Soviet participants in certain exchange programs

Title IV: Arms Control

Arms Control and Disarmament Act

Arms Export Control Act

Annual reports on arms control matters

United States/Soviet direct communication link

Title V: Diplomatic Relations

Personnel levels and limitations

Other provisions related to operation of consulates and embassies

Foreign Service Buildings Act

Title VI: Oceans and the Environment

Arctic Research and Policy Act

Fur seal management

Global climate protection

Title VII: Regional and General Diplomatic Issues

United Nations assessments

Soviet occupation of Afghanistan

Angola

Self determination of the people from the Baltic States

Obsolete references in Foreign Assistance Act

Review of United States policy toward the Soviet Union

Title VIII: Internal Security; Worldwide Communist Conspiracy

Civil defense

Report on Soviet press manipulation in the United States

Subversive Activities Control Act

Report on Soviet and international communist behavior

Title IX: Miscellaneous

Ballistic missile tests near Hawaii

Nondelivery of international mail

State-sponsored harassment of religious groups

Murder of Major Arthur D. Nicholson

Monument to honor victims of communism

See also

Arctic policy of the United States

Communist Control Act of 1954

Containment

Former Soviet Union Demilitarization Act of 1992

Freedom Support Act

Helsinki Accords

Korean Air Lines Flight 007

Mount Alto Embassy Site

National Captive Nations Committee

North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911

Omnibus Foreign Trade and Competitiveness Act

Partnership for Peace

Samantha Smith

Soviet anti-religious legislation

Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991

Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

World Trade Organization