S.Amdt. 4400

SA 4400. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1227. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON SAFE RESETTLEMENT OF CAMP
LIBERTY RESIDENTS.

It is the sense of Congress that the United States
Government should--
(1) work with the Government of Iraq and the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to ensure that all
residents of Camp Liberty are safely resettled in Albania;
(2) urge the Government of Iraq to take prompt and
appropriate steps in accordance with international agreements
to promote the physical security and protection of residents
of Camp Liberty during the resettlement process, including
steps to ensure that the personnel responsible for providing
security at Camp Liberty are adequately vetted to determine
that they are not affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps' Qods Force;
(3) urge the Government of Iraq to ensure continued and
reliable access to food, clean water, medical assistance,
electricity and other energy needs, and any other equipment
and supplies necessary to sustain the residents during
periods of attack or siege by external forces during the
resettlement process;
(4) work with the Government of Iraq to make all reasonable
efforts to facilitate the sale of residents' property and
assets remaining at Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty for the
purpose of funding their cost of living and resettlement out
of Iraq;
(5) work with the Government of Iraq and the UNHCR to
ensure that Camp Liberty residents may exercise full control
of all personal assets in Camp Liberty and the former Camp
Ashraf as the residents deem necessary;
(6) assist, and maintain close and regular communication
with, the UNHCR for the purpose of expediting the ongoing
resettlement of all residents of Camp Liberty to Albania;
(7) urge the Government of Albania, and the UNHCR to ensure
the continued recognition of the resettled residents as
``persons of concern'' entitled to international protections
according to principles and standards in the 1951 Geneva
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and the
International Bill of Human Rights; and
(8) work with the Government of Albania and the UNHCR to
facilitate and provide suitable locations for housing of the
remaining Camp Liberty residents in Albania until such time
as the residents become self-sufficient in meeting their
residential needs in Albania.
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