Sec. 1241. Limitation on military cooperation between the United States and the Russian Federation

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None of the funds authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2015 for the Department of Defense may be used for any bilateral military-to-military cooperation between the Governments of the United States and the Russian Federation until the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that— the Russian Federation has ceased its occupation of Ukrainian territory and its aggressive activities that threaten the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and the Russian Federation is abiding by the terms of and taking steps in support of the Minsk Protocol, signed on September 5, 2014, regarding a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.

The limitation in subsection

(a)shall not apply to— any activities necessary to ensure the compliance of the United States with its obligations or the exercise of rights of the United States under any bilateral or multilateral arms control or nonproliferation agreement or any other treaty obligation of the United States; and any activities required to provide logistical or other support to the conduct of United States or North Atlantic Treaty Organization military operations in Afghanistan or the withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Secretary of Defense may waive the limitation in subsection

(a)if— the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State— determines that the waiver is in the national security interest of the United States; and submits to the appropriate congressional committees— a notification that the waiver is in the national security interest of the United States and a description of the national security interest covered by the waiver; and a report explaining why the Secretary of Defense cannot make the certification under subsection (a); and a period of 15 days has elapsed following the date on which the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, submits the information in the report under subparagraph (B)(ii). The certification requirement specified in paragraph

(1)of subsection

(a)shall not apply to military bases of the Russian Federation in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula operating in accordance with its 1997 agreement on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet Stationing on the Territory of Ukraine. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. This section takes effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and applies with respect to funds described in subsection

(a)that are unobligated on or after such date of enactment.