FRIENDSHIP Act of 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

H.R. 3000 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

References

External links

1993 in international relations

103rd United States Congress

Cold War

Cold War history of the United States

Soviet Union–United States relations

United States foreign relations legislation