[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 240 (Wednesday, December 15, 1999)] [Notices] [Page 70103] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 99-32499] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUREAU OF NONPROLIFERATION [Public Notice 3175] Imposition of Lethal Military Equipment Sanctions Against the Government of Kazakhstan and Partial Waiver of These Sanctions
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Department of State.
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Summary
The United States Government has determined that the Government of Kazakhstan transferred lethal military equipment to a country determined by the Secretary of State to be a state sponsor of terrorism. The United States Government determined that, despite the transfers, furnishing assistance to the Government of Kazakhstan, other than assistance furnished to a Government of Kazakhstan-owned entity, a private Czech entity and three officials from the private Czech entity that were specifically involved in the transfer of lethal military equipment, is important to the national interests of the United States. Further, it is the policy of the United States Government to deny all U.S. Government assistance to these entities and foreign persons.
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 17, 1999.
For Further Information Contact
Joseph Smaldone, Office of Export Controls and Conventional Arms Nonproliferation Policy, Bureau of Nonproliferation, Department of State, (202-647-4231).
Supplementary Information
Pursuant to section 620H of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2378), section 573 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1994 (Pub. L. 103-87), section 563 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1995 (Pub. L. 103-306), section 552 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1996 (Pub. L. 104- 107), section 551 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 (Pub. L. 104-208), section 550 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1998 (Pub. L. 105-118), section 551 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1999 (Pub. L. 105-277), and Executive Order 12163, as amended, on November 17, 1999, the United States Government determined that the Government of Kazakhstan has provided lethal military equipment to a country determined by the Secretary of State to be a state sponsor of terrorism. Also on November 17, 1999 and pursuant to the aforementioned provisions of law, the United States Government determined furnishing assistance restricted by these provisions to the Government of Kazakhstan, with the exceptions that follow, is important to the national interests of the United States. Assistance to the following entity, its sub-units, subsidiaries and successors, is prohibited: (1) Uralsk Plant Metallist (including at 1 Urdinskaya Street, City of Uralsk, Republic of Kazakhstan 417024). In addition, providing U.S. Government assistance to the Government of Kazakhstan that directly or indirectly pays for goods, services or technology of the following foreign entity and individuals and providing U.S. Government assistance to the following foreign entity and individuals is prohibited: (1) Agroplast, a.s. (including at nam. Dr. E. Benese Square 13, Liberec 1, Czech Republic); (2) Petr Pernicka (including at 26/2 Soukenne nam., Liberec, Czech Republic); (3) Zbynek Svejnoha, (including at 603/4 Vodnyanska, Liberec 14, Czech Republic); (4) Alexander Petrenko, (Kazakhstani citizen, currently residing in the Republic of Kazakhstan). Further, it is the policy of the United States Government to deny all types of U.S. Government assistance to the aforementioned foreign entities and individuals. These measures shall remain in place until further notice.
Dated: December 9, 1999. John P. Barker, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation Controls. [FR Doc. 99-32499 Filed 12-14-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4710-25-P