Sec. 1204. Prohibition on use of funds to invite, assist, or otherwise assure the participation of Cuba in certain joint or multilateral exercises
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The Secretary of Defense may not use any funds to invite, assist, or otherwise assure the participation of the Government of Cuba in any joint or multilateral exercise or related security conference between the United States and Cuba until the Secretary, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, submits to Congress written assurances that— the Cuban military has ceased committing human rights abuses against civil rights activists and other citizens of Cuba; the Cuban military has ceased providing military intelligence, weapons training, strategic planning, and security logistics to the military and security forces of Venezuela; the Cuban military and other security forces in Cuba have ceased all persecution, intimidation, arrest, imprisonment, and assassination of dissidents and members of faith based organizations; the Government of Cuba no longer demands that the United States relinquish control of Guantanamo Bay, in violation of an international treaty; and the officials of the Cuban military that were indicted in the murder of United States citizens during the shootdown of planes operated by the Brothers to the Rescue humanitarian organization in 1996 are brought to justice.
The prohibition in subsection
(a)shall not apply to any joint or multilateral exercise or operation related to humanitarian assistance or disaster response.