Sec. 1286. 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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## SEC. 1286 PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO INVITE, ASSIST, OR OTHERWISE ASSURE THE PARTICIPATION OF CUBA IN CERTAIN JOINT OR MULTILATERAL EXERCISES ###
(a)Prohibition The Secretary of Defense may not use any funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2017 for the Department of Defense 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 Governments of the United States and Cuba until the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, certify to the appropriate congressional committees that— ####
(1)the Cuban military has ceased committing human rights abuses against civil rights activists and other citizens of Cuba; ####
(2)the Cuban military has ceased providing military intelligence, weapons training, strategic planning, and security logistics to the military and security forces of Venezuela; ####
(3)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; ####
(4)the Government of Cuba no longer demands that the United States relinquish control of Guantanamo Bay, in violation of an international treaty; and ####
(5)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. ###
(b)Exceptions The prohibition in subsection
(a)shall not apply with respect to— ####
(1)payments in furtherance of the lease agreement, or other financial transactions necessary for maintenance and improvements of the military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including any adjacent areas under the control or possession of the United States; ####
(2)assistance or support in furtherance of democracy-building efforts for Cuba described in section 109 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6039); ####
(3)customary and routine financial transactions necessary for the maintenance, improvements, or regular duties of the United States mission in Havana, including outreach to the pro-democracy opposition; or ####
(4)any joint or multilateral exercise or operation related to humanitarian assistance or disaster response. ###
(c)Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— ####
(1)the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and ####
(2)the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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Sec. 1286
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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