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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1987

PUBLIC LAW 100-204—DEC. 22, 1987

101 STAT. 1395

thereof, approved October 18, 1972 (86 Stat. 815), is amended by 22 USC 288h. adding at the end the following: "Under such terms and conditions President of U.S. as the President may determine, the President is authorized to extend to other offices of the Commission of the European Communities which are established in the United States, and to members thereof— "(1) the privileges and immunities described in the preceding sentence; or "(2) as appropriate for the functioning of a particular office, privileges and immunities, equivalent to those accorded consular premises, consular officers, and consular employees, pursuant to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.". SEC. 742. CONTRIBUTION TO THE REGULAR BUDGET OF THE INTER- Israel. NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS AND SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING RECOGNITION OF RED SHIELD OF DAVID.

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(a) UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTION.—Pursuant to the provisions of section 109 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987, the Secretary of State shall make an annual contribution to the regular budget of the International Committee of the Red Cross of an amount which is not less than 10 percent of its regular budget. Such contribution may be made from the funds authorized to be appropriated by section 104 for "Migration and Refugee Assistance". (b) LIMITATION ON CONTRIBUTIONS.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), for fiscal year 1988, the United States contribution to the regular budget of the International Committee of the Red Cross shall not exceed nor be less than the amount contributed by the United States to the regular budget of the International Committee of the Red Cross in fiscal year 1987. (c) RECOGNITION OF THE RED SHIELD OF DAVID.—It is the sense of the Congress that a diplomatic conference of governments should grant identical status of recognition to the Red Shield of David (Magen David Adorn) as that granted to the Red Cross and the Red Crescent and that the Red Shield of David Society of Israel should be accepted as a full member of the League of Red Cross Societies and the quadrennial International Conferences of the Red Cross. SEC. 743. IMMUNITIES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS.

The International Organizations Immunities Act is amended by inserting after section 12 (22 U.S.C. 288f-2) the following new section: "SEC. 13. The International Committee of the Red Cross, in view of 22 USC 288f-3. its unique status eis an impartial humanitarian body named in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and assisting in their implementation, shall be considered to be an international organization for the purposes of this title and may be extended the provisions of this title in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same conditions, as such provisions may be extended to a public international organization in which the United States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress authorizing such participation or making an appropriation for such participation.".

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