PUBLIC LAW 98-94—SEPT. 24, 1983 97 STAT. 673 REPORT ON ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMON DEFENSE SEC. 1102. (a) In recognition of the increasing military threat faced 22 USC 1928 by the Western World and in view of the growth, relative to the "°*^- United States, in the economic strength of Japan, Canada, and a number of Western European countries which has occurred since the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949, and the 63 Stat. 2241. Mutual Cooperation and Security treaty between Japan and the United States on January 19, 1960, it is the sense of the Congress ii UST 1632. that— (1) the burdens of mutual defense now assumed by some of the countries allied with the United States under those agreements are not commensurate with their economic resources; (2) since May 1978, when each NATO member nation agreed to increase real defense spending annually in the range of 3 percent, most NATO members, except for the United States, have failed to meet the 3 percent real growth commitment consistently and performance toward this goal in 1983 is esti- mated to be the most deficient, on average, since the goal was established; (3) since May 1981, when the Government of Japan estab- lished its policy to defend the air and sea lines of communica- tion out to 1,000 nautical miles from the coast of Japan, progress to develop the necessary self-defense capabilities to fulfill that pledge has been extremely disappointing; (4) Japan is the ally of the United States with the greatest potential for improving its self-defense capabilities and should, therefore, rapidly increase its annual defense spending to the levels required to fulfill that pledge and to enable Japan to be capable of an effective conventional self-defense capability by 1990, including the capability to carry out its 1,000-mile defense policy, a development that would be consonant not only with Japan's current prominent position in the family of nations but also with its unique sensibilities on the issues of war and peace, sensibilities that are recognized and respected by the people of the United States; and (5) the continued unwillingness of such countries to increase their contributions to the common defense to more appropriate levels will endanger the vitality, effectiveness, and cohesiveness of the alliances between those countries and the United States. (b) It is further the sense of the Congress that the President should seek from each signatory country (other than the United States) of the two treaties referred to in subsection (a) acceptance of international security responsibilities and an agreement to make contributions to the common defense which are commensurate with the economic resources of such country, including, when appropri- ate, an increase in host nation support. (c)(1) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Congress not Classified report later than March 1, 1984, a classified report containing— ^° Congress. (A) a comparison of the fair and equitable shares of the mutual defense burdens of these alliances that should be borne by the United States, by other member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and by Japan, based upon economic strength and other relevant factors, and the actual defense efforts of each nation together with an explana- tion of disparities that currently exist and their impact on mutual defense efforts; 11-194O-85~ 23:QL3
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