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Public Law 97–233
With regard to Presidential certifications on conditions in El Salvador.
Approved August 10, 1982
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
With regard to Presidential certifications on conditions in El Salvador.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 728(e) of the
El Salvador, Presidential certifications on conditions.
22 USC 2370 note.
International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: “The second certification required under this section may be made only if it includes a determination by the President that the Government of El Salvador (1) has made good faith efforts since the first such certification was made to investigate the murders of those six United States citizens and to bring to justice those responsible for those murders, and (2) has taken all reasonable steps to investigate the disappearance of journalist John Sullivan in El Salvador in January 1981.”.
Approved August 10, 1982.