Sec. 1221. Limitation on military contact and cooperation between the United States and the Russian Federation

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None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2015 for the Department of Defense may be used for any bilateral military-to-military contact or cooperation between the Governments of the United States and the Russian Federation until the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that— the armed forces of the Russian Federation are no longer illegally occupying Ukrainian territory; the Russian Federation is respecting the sovereignty of all Ukrainian territory; the Russian Federation is no longer taking actions that are inconsistent with the INF Treaty; the Russian Federation is in compliance with the CFE Treaty and has lifted its suspension of Russian observance of its treaty obligations; and the Russian Federation has not sold or otherwise transferred the Club-K land attack cruise missile system to any foreign country or foreign person during fiscal year 2014.

The Secretary of Defense may waive the limitation in subsection

(a)with respect to a certification requirement specified in paragraph (1), (2), (3), or

(4)if— the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, submits to the appropriate congressional committees— a notification that such a 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 30 days has elapsed following the date on which the Secretary of Defense submits the information in the report under subparagraph (B). The Secretary of Defense may waive the limitation required by subsection (a)(5) with respect to the sale or other transfer of the Club-K land attack cruise missile system if— the United States has imposed sanctions against the manufacturer of such system by reason of such sale or other transfer; or the Secretary has developed and submitted to the appropriate congressional committees a plan to prevent the sale or other transfer of such system in the future. 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. The term bilateral military-to-military contact or cooperation — means— reciprocal visits and meetings by high-ranking delegations; information sharing, policy consultations, security dialogues or other forms of consultative discussions; exchanges of military instructors, training personnel, and students; exchanges of information; defense planning; and military training or exercises; but does not include any contact or cooperation that is in support of United States stability operations. The term CFE Treaty means the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, signed at Paris November 19, 1990, and entered into force July 17, 1992. The term INF Treaty means the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, commonly referred to as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces

(INF)Treaty, signed at Washington December 8, 1987, and entered into force June 1, 1988. 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 as of such date of enactment.