USIA POSTS AND PERSONNEL OVERSEAS.

SEC. 206. USIA POSTS AND PERSONNEL OVERSEAS. (a) USIA Posts and Personnel Overseas.—The United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 is amended by adding after section 811 the following: “usia posts and personnel overseas “Sec. 812. (a) Limitation.—Except as provided under this section no funds authorized to be appropriated to the United States Information Agency may be used to pay any expense associated with the closing of any United States Information Agency post abroad. “(b) Notification.—Not less than 45 days before the closing of any United States Information Agency post abroad the Director of the United States Information Agency shall notify the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. “(c) Exceptions.—This section shall not apply to any United States Information Agency post closed— “(1) because of a break or downgrading of diplomatic relations between the United States and the country in which the post is located; or “(2) where there is a real and present threat to United States diplomats in the city where the post is located and where a travel advisory warning against travel by United States citizens to the city has been issued by the Department of State.”. (b) Reductions in American Employees.—Reductions may not be made in the number of positions filled by American employees of the United States Information Agency stationed abroad until the number of such employees is the same percentage of the total number of American employees of the Agency as the number of American employees of the Agency stationed abroad in 1981 was to the total number of American employees at the Agency at the same time in 1981. (c) Repeal.—Section 204 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 U.S.C. 1461 note) is repealed.