Sec. 1250. Prohibition on integration of certain missile defense systems
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None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2015 for the Department of Defense or for United States contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization may be obligated or expended to integrate missile defense systems of the People’s Republic of China into missile defense systems of the United States. It is the sense of Congress that missile defense systems of the Russian Federation should not be integrated into the missile defense systems of the United States or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization if such integration undermines the security of the United States or NATO.
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2015 for the Department of Defense or for United States contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization may be obligated or expended to integrate missile defense systems of the Russian Federation into missile defense systems of the United States if such integration undermines the security of the United States or NATO. The Secretary of Defense may waive the prohibition in paragraph
(2)if the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, determines that the Russian Federation— has withdrawn military forces and assets from Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, other than at those operating in accordance with its 1997 agreement on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet Stationing on the Territory of Ukraine; and has ceased aggressive actions, particularly along Ukraine’s eastern border, that have led to a destabilization of the Ukrainian government and the safety of its residents.