EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES FOR CERTAIN COUNTRIES.

SEC. 1231. EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES FOR CERTAIN COUNTRIES. (a) Authority.—Notwithstanding section 516(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j(e)), during the fiscal year 2003 funds available to the Department of Defense may be expended for crating, packing, handling, and transportation of excess defense articles transferred under the authority of section 516 of such Act to Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Pakistan, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. (b) Sense of Congress.—It is the sense of Congress that the authority provided under this section should be utilized only 116 STAT. 1433for those countries demonstrating a genuine commitment to democracy and human rights.