To ensure that the People's Republic of China is not treated as a developing country.

SA 5518. Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself and Mr. Lee) proposed an amendment
to the resolution of ratification to Treaty Doc. 117-1, Amendment to
the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the
``Montreal Protocol''), adopted at Kigali on October 15, 2016, by the
Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (the
``Kigali Amendment''); as follows:

In section 1, in the section heading, strike
``declaration'' and insert ``declarations and a condition''.
In section 1, strike ``declaration of section 2'' and
insert ``declarations of section 2 and the condition of
section 3''.
In section 2, in the section heading, strike
``declaration'' and insert ``declarations''.
In section 2, strike ``following declaration'' and all that
follows through the period at the end and insert the
following: ``following declarations:
(1) The Kigali amendment is not self-executing.
(2) The People's Republic of China is not a developing
country, and the United Nations and other intergovernmental
organizations should not treat the People's Republic of China
as such.
At the end, add the following:

SEC. 3. CONDITION.

The advice and consent of the Senate under section 1 is
subject to the following condition: Prior to the Thirty-Fifth
Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol, the
Secretary of State shall transmit to the Secretariat of the
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer a
proposal to amend Decision I/12E, ``Clarification of terms
and definitions: developing countries,'' made at the First
Meeting of the Parties, to remove the People's Republic of
China.
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