To require the Secretary of Defense to take the necessary steps to negotiate with the members of NATO to ensure that the European members of NATO assume the costs of supporting United States participation in the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR).

Directs the Secretary of Defense to negotiate with the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to ensure that the cost of U.S. participation in the NATO Implementation Force in Bosnia is assumed by the European members of NATO.

[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2874 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 2874

  To require the Secretary of Defense to take the necessary steps to 
negotiate with the members of NATO to ensure that the European members 
 of NATO assume the costs of supporting United States participation in 
                 the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR).


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 24, 1996

Mr. Kennedy of Massachusetts (for himself, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, 
 Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Luther, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, 
Ms. Furse, and Mr. Brown of Ohio) introduced the following bill; which 
   was referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in 
  addition to the Committee on National Security, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of Defense to take the necessary steps to 
negotiate with the members of NATO to ensure that the European members 
 of NATO assume the costs of supporting United States participation in 
                 the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR).

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall take the steps necessary to 
negotiate with the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
(NATO) in order to ensure that the costs of participation by the United 
States in the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia is assumed by 
the European members of NATO.
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