SUPPORT FOR NEW DEMOCRACIES.

SEC. 360. SUPPORT FOR NEW DEMOCRACIES.It is the policy of the United States— (1) to support democratization within the Soviet Union and support self-determination, observer and other appropriate status in international organizations, particularly the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and independence for all republic-level governments which seek such status; (2) to shape its foreign assistance and other programs to support those republics that pursue a democratic and market-105 STAT. 716oriented course of development, and demonstrate a commitment to abide by the rule of law; (3) to strongly support peaceful resolution of conflicts within the Soviet Union and between the central Soviet government and Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia and republic-level governments; (4) to condemn the actual and threatened use of martial law, pogroms, military occupation, blockades, and other uses of force which have been used to suppress democracy and self-determination; and (5) to view the threatened and actual use of force to suppress the self-determination of republic-level governments and Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as an obstacle to fully normalized United States-Soviet relations.