104 STAT. 2066 PUBLIC LAW 101-513—NOV. 5, 1990 (e) ALLOCATION OP FUNDS. —(1) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the heading "Economic Support Fund", up to $10,000,000 shall be available to carry out this section. (2) The authority to obligate funds under the authority provided by this section shall expire six months after the date of enactment of this Act. PROTECTION OF CHILDREN SEC. 599D. Amend Section 116 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 22 USC 2i5in. 1961 to add a new subsection: "(b) No assistance may be provided to any government failing to take appropriate and adequate measures, within their means, to protect children from exploitation, abuse or forced conscription into military or paramilitary services.". INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT SEC. 599E. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) the international community has defined as criminal conduct in various international conventions, certain acts such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, piracy and crimes on board commercial vessels, aircraft hijacking and sabotage of aircraft, crimes against diplomats and other internationaly protected persons, hostage-taking, and illicit drug cultivation and trafficking; (2) in spite of these international conventions, the effective prosecution of those who commit criminal acts has been seriously obstructed in certain cases because of problems of extradition and differences between the legal and judicial systems of individual nations; (3) the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice extends only to cases involving governments, and not to individual criminal cases; (4) the concept of an international criminal court has been under consideration in the United Nations and other international fora for many years, including proposals and reviews undertaken in 1990 by the United Nations General Assembly, the International Law Commission, and the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders; (5) the international military tribunals established in Nuremburg, (Jermany, and Tokyo, Japan, following World War II also establish a precedent for international criminal tribunals; and (6) there is growing movement among nations of the world to formulate their economic, political and legal systems on a multilateral basis. 0)) It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the United States should explore the need for the establishment of an International Criminal Court on a universal or regional basis to assist the international community in dealing more effectively with criminal acts defined in international conventions; and (2) the establishment of such a court or courts for the more effective prosecution of international criminals should not dero-
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