S.Amdt. 4660

SA 4660. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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:

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

SEC. 1216. OPPOSITION TO ALLOCATION OF SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS
BY INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND THAT WOULD
BENEFIT TALIBAN.

Section 6 of the Special Drawing Rights Act (22 U.S.C.
286q) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(c) Opposition to Allocation of Special Drawing Rights
That Would Benefit Taliban.--
``(1) In general.--Unless Congress by law authorizes such
action, neither the President nor any person or agency shall
on behalf of the United States--
``(A) vote to allocate Special Drawing Rights under article
XVIII, sections 2 and 3, of the Articles of Agreement of the
Fund to Afghanistan if Afghanistan would receive Special
Drawing Rights under the allocation and the Taliban or any
associate of the Taliban would benefit from the allocation;
or
``(B) act as a counterparty, directly or indirectly, for
any exchange with the Government of Afghanistan of Special
Drawing Rights for currencies while the Government of
Afghanistan is controlled by the Taliban, is organized by the
Taliban, or is constituted so that the Taliban is part of
that Government.
``(2) Taliban defined.--In this subsection, the term
`Taliban' means the entity--
``(A) known as the Taliban and designated as a specially
designated global terrorist organization under Executive
Order 13224 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to blocking
property and prohibiting transactions with persons who
commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism); or
``(B) a successor entity.''.
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