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HJRES 560 100th Congress House International Affairs Agriculture and Rural Affairs Agriculture in foreign trade American investments Coffee Credit Disaster relief Disasters and Disaster Relief Dispute settlement Ethiopia Finance and Financial Sector Food and Food Industry Food as a weapon Food relief Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign Trade and Investments Foreign loans Human rights Import restrictions Imports

A joint resolution condemning human rights violations by the Government of Ethiopia.

Introduced: April 29, 1988 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 7 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 12, 1988
Referred to Subcommittee on International Development Institutions and Finance.
May 5, 1988
Referred to Subcommittee on Trade.
May 3, 1988
For Further Action See H.J.Res.562.
Apr 29, 1988
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Apr 29, 1988
Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Apr 29, 1988
Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Apr 29, 1988
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Condemns the Government of Ethiopia for its use of food as a weapon, its forced resettlement program, and its human rights record.

Urges: (1) the Government of Ethiopia to allow the international relief campaign to resume; (2) the Tigrean People's Liberation Front and Eritrean People's Liberation Front to cease attacks upon relief vehicles and relief distribution points; and (3) the President and Secretary of State to press the Ethiopian Government for agricultural reforms, to press for a political settlement to the Ethiopian conflict, and to engage in direct discussion with the Soviet Union to achieve that objective.

Urges and authorizes the President to impose sanctions upon Ethiopia as he deems appropriate if Ethiopia engages in specified activities, including forced resettlement and the diversion or denial of international relief.

Directs that sanctions imposed include at least two of the following: (1) prohibiting the importation of Ethiopian coffee; (2) denying nondiscriminatory (most-favored-nation) treatment to Ethiopian products; (3) prohibiting new U.S. investment in Ethiopia; and (4) prohibiting new U.S. public or private loans to the Government of Ethiopia.

Directs the President to report to the Congress every 60 days on whether the Government of Ethiopia engaged in any of the proscribed activities and on any U.S. response to such conduct.

What's happening now May 12, 1988

Referred to Subcommittee on International Development Institutions and Finance.

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