---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6031"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6031"
heading: "Statement of policy"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6031"
units:
  - "Chapter 69A — Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (libertad)"
  - "Subchapter I — Strengthening International Sanctions Against the Castro Government"
---

# §6031. Statement of policy


It is the sense of the Congress that—

- (1) the acts of the Castro government, including its massive, systematic, and extraordinary violations of human rights, are a threat to international peace;
- (2) the President should advocate, and should instruct the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) Permanent Representative to the United Nations to propose and seek within the Security Council, a mandatory international embargo against the totalitarian [Cuban Government](/usc/22/6023.md?p=5-A) pursuant to chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, employing efforts similar to consultations conducted by [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) representatives with respect to Haiti;
- (3) any resumption of efforts by any independent state of the former Soviet Union to make operational any nuclear [facilities](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) in Cuba, and any continuation of intelligence activities by such a state from Cuba that are targeted at the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and its citizens will have a detrimental impact on [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) assistance to such state; and
- (4) in view of the threat to the national security posed by the operation of any nuclear [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8), and the Castro government’s continuing blackmail to unleash another wave of Cuban refugees fleeing from Castro’s oppression, most of whom find their way to [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) shores, further depleting limited humanitarian and other resources of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), the President should do all in his power to make it clear to the [Cuban Government](/usc/22/6023.md?p=5-A) that—
  - (A) the completion and operation of any nuclear power [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8), or
  - (B) any further political manipulation of the desire of Cubans to escape that results in mass migration to the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1),

  will be considered an act of aggression which will be met with an appropriate response in order to maintain the security of the national borders of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and the health and safety of the American people.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–114, title I, § 101, Mar. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 791.)