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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2510
To enhance counterterrorism and maritime security cooperation and training
within the ‘‘3+1’’ structure between the United States, Israel, Greece,
and the Republic of Cyprus.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH31, 2025
Ms. M
ALLIOTAKIS(for herself, Mr. KEAN, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, and Mr. GOLD-
MANof New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on
Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To enhance counterterrorism and maritime security coopera-
tion and training within the ‘‘3+1’’ structure between
the United States, Israel, Greece, and the Republic of
Cyprus.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American-Hellenic- 4
Israeli Eastern Mediterranean Counterterrorism and Mar-5
itime Security Partnership Act of 2025’’. 6
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SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 1
The purpose of this Act is to enhance counterter-2
rorism and maritime security cooperation and training 3
within the ‘‘3+1’’ structure between the United States, 4
Israel, Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus. 5
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 6
Congress finds the following: 7
(1) Israel has been designated as a Major Non- 8
NATO Ally under U.S. law since 1987 and its part-9
nership with the U.S. is critical to the protection of 10
U.S. interests in the Eastern Mediterranean and the 11
surrounding regions. 12
(2) The Department of State describes Israel as 13
‘‘a great partner to the United States’’ with an ‘‘un-14
breakable bond’’ that ‘‘has never been stronger.’’ 15
(3) The longstanding strength of the relation-16
ship between the U.S. and Israel is demonstrated by 17
the historic significance of the United States being 18
the first country to officially recognize Israel as a 19
state in 1948 and being the first country to recog-20
nize Jerusalem as its capital in 2017. 21
(4) The United States remains in solidarity 22
with Israel following the October 7, 2023, terrorist 23
attack committed by Hamas, described by the De-24
partment of State as ‘‘the deadliest terrorist attack 25
in its 75-year history’’ which included the deaths of 26
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more than forty-four Americans, the most killed in 1
a terrorist attack since the events of September 11, 2
2001, and the capture of twelve other Americans as 3
hostages. 4
(5) The Department of State holds that ‘‘sup-5
port for Israel’s security has been a cornerstone of 6
American foreign policy,’’ as demonstrated by the 7
longstanding support provided to Israel by the U.S. 8
(6) The United States and Israel have defense 9
cooperation agreements including a Mutual Defense 10
Assistance Agreement (1952); a General Security of 11
Information Agreement (1982); a Mutual Logistics 12
Support Agreement (1991); and a Status of Forces 13
Agreement (1994). 14
(7) The United States has participated in mili-15
tary exercises with Israel, including Juniper Oak 16
and Juniper Falcon. 17
(8) The United States and Israel have engaged 18
in strategic dialogue involving counterterrorism co-19
ordination. 20
(9) Greece is a North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-21
tion (NATO) Ally that consistently exceeds its obli-22
gation of spending 2% of its gross domestic product 23
(GDP) on defense annually. In 2021, Greece spent 24
a higher percentage of its real GDP on defense than 25
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any other NATO country. In 2024, Greece spent 1
3.08% of its real GDP on defense and accordingly 2
continues to rank amongst the highest of all NATO 3
countries. Its significant contributions to the Alli-4
ance, including hosting the NATO Missile Firing In-5
stallation (NAMFI), the NATO Maritime Interdic-6
tion Operations Training Center (NMIOTC), the 7
NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defense (NATO 8
IAMD) Centre of Excellence, have led to it being 9
designated as a ‘‘key NATO Ally’’ by the Depart-10
ment of State. 11
(10) Greece continues to support U.S. maritime 12
security through hosting the U.S. Navy installation 13
Naval Support Activity Souda Bay on the island of 14
Crete, and Souda Bay provides the only deep-water 15
port in the Mediterranean able to service the largest 16
types of aircraft carriers operated by the U.S. 17
(11) The Department of State describes Greece 18
as ‘‘a leader in the region’’ and ‘‘an important part-19
ner to the United States in promoting regional secu-20
rity, stability’’ with a significant ‘‘location at the 21
crossroads of the Western Balkans, North Africa, 22
the Middle East, and NATO’s southeastern flank,’’ 23
making ‘‘Greece a particularly important strategic 24
ally.’’ 25
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(12) The Department of State has declared 1
that Greece ‘‘shares a deep and abiding security 2
partnership’’ with the United States. 3
(13) The United States and Greece have de-4
fense cooperation agreements including The General 5
Security of Military Information Agreement 6
(GSOMIA) of 1986; the Defense Industrial Coopera-7
tion Agreement (DICA) of 1986; the NATO Status 8
of Forces Agreement (SOFA) of 1951; the Com-9
prehensive Technical Agreement (CTA) of 2001; and 10
the Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement 11
(MDCA) of 1990 (updated in 2019 and in 2021). 12
(14) Greece has participated in multiple bilat-13
eral and multilateral military exercises with the 14
United States, including Thracian Cooperation, Sto-15
len Cerberus, Trojan Footprint, Poseidon’s Rage, 16
Orion, Iniochos, Defender Europe, and Alexander 17
the Great. According to the Department of State, 18
each year the Armed Forces of the United States 19
and Greece jointly participate in more than 15 20
major military exercises. 21
(15) The United States and Greece have en-22
gaged in strategic dialogue involving counterter-23
rorism coordination. 24
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(16) The Republic of Cyprus (ROC) has been 1
described by the Department of State ‘‘as an impor-2
tant partner for regional stability, security, and 3
prosperity’’ to the United States, with an important 4
‘‘geostrategic position.’’ In 2025, the Department of 5
State declared that ‘‘Cooperation between the 6
United States and the ROC is at a historic high.’’ 7
(17) The Department of State declared that the 8
United States ‘‘works closely with the ROC to ad-9
vance shared security priorities in the Eastern Medi-10
terranean region.’’ 11
(18) The United States and the Republic of Cy-12
prus have agreed to a Statement of Intent on bilat-13
eral security cooperation in 2018 and a Defense Co-14
operation Roadmap for 2024–2029 ‘‘directed to-15
wards promoting stability, security, and prosperity 16
in the region.’’ 17
(19) The United States and the Republic of Cy-18
prus have engaged in strategic dialogue involving 19
counterterrorism coordination. 20
(20) In addition to the strong bilateral relation-21
ships between the United States and Israel, the 22
United States and Greece, and the United States 23
and the Republic of Cyprus, all four countries share 24
a multilateral relationship under the ‘‘3+1’’ struc-25
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ture established through Eastern Mediterranean Se-1
curity and Energy Partnership Act of 2019 section 2
of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 3
2020 and the United States-Greece Defense and 4
Interparliamentary Partnership Act of 2021 section 5
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 6
Year 2022. 7
(21) Together, the United States, Israel, 8
Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus share the mu-9
tual goal of ensuring the Eastern Mediterranean is 10
protected from threats of terrorism. 11
(22) The United States and Israel have a his-12
tory of strong counterterrorism cooperation. The De-13
partment of State has described Israel as ‘‘a com-14
mitted counterterrorism partner, closely coordinating 15
with the United States on a range of counterter-16
rorism initiatives.’’ This includes previous annual 17
meetings of the Joint Counterterrorism Group be-18
tween the two countries. 19
(23) The United States and Greece have a his-20
tory of strong counterterrorism cooperation. The De-21
partment of State has described Greece as ‘‘a stead-22
fast and reliable counterterrorism partner.’’ This has 23
been demonstrated recently through ‘‘improved in-24
formation exchanges and CT cooperation with the 25
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United States through the Joint Security Program 1
pilot.’’ 2
(24) The United States and the Republic of Cy-3
prus have a history of strong counterterrorism co-4
operation. The Department of State has described 5
the Republic of Cyprus as a partner that has ‘‘col-6
laborated closely with the United States bilaterally 7
and as a member of the EU, as well as with other 8
countries on international counterterrorism efforts.’’ 9
(25) The Department of State reported that 10
‘‘ROC authorities have taken enhanced security 11
measures to prevent terrorist actions following 12
Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. The Cyprus 13
National Police conducted increased patrols at air-14
ports, harbors, marinas, and ports; assessed high- 15
threat targets—mostly of Israeli and U.S. inter-16
ests—and provided frequent patrols; provided a po-17
lice presence at all synagogues in Larnaca, Limassol, 18
and Paphos; increased police coverage at the Israeli 19
Embassy.’’ Additionally, the Republic of Cyprus has 20
been threatened by Iran-backed terrorist organiza-21
tions, including Hezbollah. 22
(26) Israel and Greece have a history of strong 23
counterterrorism cooperation and participate ‘‘in re-24
gional and multinational counterterrorism exercises’’ 25
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between the two countries, as described by the De-1
partment of State. 2
(27) Israel and the Republic of Cyprus have a 3
history of strong counterterrorism cooperation and 4
participate ‘‘in regional and multinational counter-5
terrorism exercises’’ between the two countries, as 6
described by the Department of State. 7
(28) Greece and the Republic of Cyprus have a 8
history of strong counterterrorism cooperation and 9
participate ‘‘in regional and multinational counter-10
terrorism exercises’’ between the two countries, as 11
described by the Department of State. 12
(29) Israel, Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus 13
have a history of strong trilateral counterterrorism 14
cooperation reflected through multiple types of en-15
gagement. 16
(30) The foreign ministers of Israel, Greece, 17
and the Republic of Cyprus, and the United States 18
Secretary of State, have collectively met multiple 19
times to discuss multilateral security issues. 20
(31) The Cyprus Center for Land, Open-seas, 21
and Port Security (C.Y.C.L.O.P.S.), initially funded 22
by the United States State Department’s Export 23
Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) pro-24
gram through a Memorandum of Understanding be-25
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tween the Republic of Cyprus and the USA, signed 1
on September 12, 2020, has served as an important 2
training center for the United States. The United 3
States has conducted multiple security cooperation 4
initiatives utilizing C.Y.C.L.O.P.S. including the 5
U.S. Department of State’s Office of Weapons of 6
Mass Destruction Terrorism ‘‘Saharan Fox’’ work-7
shop. 8
(32) Together, the United States, Israel, 9
Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus share the mu-10
tual goal of ensuring the Eastern Mediterranean is 11
protected from breaches of maritime security. 12
(33) Souda Bay, Crete, has served as an impor-13
tant location for the United States to conduct mari-14
time security initiatives since 1969 and has long 15
been considered the most essential location for sup-16
porting U.S. naval activity in the Mediterranean. In 17
addition to providing the only port in the region able 18
to sustain the largest aircraft carriers operated by 19
the United Sates, it’s location at the junction be-20
tween Europe, Africa, and Asia make it a location 21
of great geostrategic value. 22
SEC. 4. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 23
It is the policy of the United States— 24
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(1) to establish a security subcomponent of the 1
‘‘3+1’’ structure between the United States, Israel, 2
Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus; 3
(2) to expand official strategic engagement with 4
Israel, Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus regarding 5
counterterrorism and maritime security; 6
(3) to increase support for joint counterter-7
rorism and maritime security exercises among Israel, 8
Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus; 9
(4) to increase participation in multilateral dia-10
logues on counterterrorism and maritime security 11
conducted among the United States, Israel, Greece 12
and the Republic of Cyprus; 13
(5) to increase support for the participation of 14
Israel, Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus in the 15
Combating Terrorism Fellowship Program; 16
(6) to expand United States support for 17
counterterrorism initiatives at C.Y.C.L.O.P.S. (Cy-18
prus Center for Land, Open-seas, and Port Security) 19
in the Republic of Cyprus and develop deeper co-20
operation with the latter regarding counterterrorism 21
and maritime security; 22
(7) to expand United States support for mari-23
time security initiatives at the Greek Souda Naval 24
Base in Greece and develop deeper cooperation with 25
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the latter regarding counterterrorism and maritime 1
security; 2
(8) to further support a robust International 3
Military Education and Training (IMET) program-4
ming with Israel, Greece and the Republic of Cy-5
prus, which will increase interoperability with the 6
United States; 7
(9) to encourage counterterrorism, border and 8
maritime security investments in Israel, Greece, and 9
the Republic of Cyprus; and 10
(10) to increase counterterrorism intelligence 11
sharing and maritime domain awareness cooperation 12
with Israel, Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus. 13
SEC. 5. ELIMINATION OF SCHEDULED TERMINATION OF CY-14
PRUS, GREECE, ISRAEL, AND THE UNITED 15
STATES 3+1 INTERPARLIAMENTARY GROUP. 16
Section 1316 of the National Defense Authorization 17
Act for Fiscal Year 2022 is amended by striking sub-18
section (e). 19
SEC. 6. ISRAEL, GREECE, CYPRUS, AND THE UNITED 20
STATES INTERPARLIAMENTARY EASTERN 21
MEDITERRANEAN SECURITY COOPERATION 22
GROUP. 23
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—There is established a group, 24
to be known as the ‘‘Israel, Greece, Cyprus, and the 25
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United States Interparliamentary Eastern Mediterranean 1
Security Cooperation Group’’ to serve as a security fo-2
cused legislative subcomponent to the 3+1 inter-3
parliamentary group established in Section 1316 of the 4
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022. 5
(b) M
EMBERSHIP.—The group established under 6
subsection (a) shall include a group of not more than 6 7
Members of the United States Senate and 6 Members of 8
the United States House of Representatives, who shall be 9
appointed jointly by the majority leader and the minority 10
leader of the Senate and the speaker and the minority 11
leader of the House of Representatives, respectively. Mem-12
bership shall include 2 Members of Congress who serve 13
on an appropriate congressional committee. 14
(c) M
EETINGS.—Not less frequently than twice each 15
year, the United States Interparliamentary Eastern Medi-16
terranean Security Cooperation Group shall meet with 17
Israeli, Cypriot, and Greek parliamentary counterpart 18
members to discuss issues on the agenda of the legislative 19
branch of the Governments of Israel, Greece, the Republic 20
of Cyprus, and the United States regarding counterter-21
rorism and maritime security. 22
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SEC. 7. ISRAEL, GREECE, CYPRUS, AND UNITED STATES 1
INTEREXECUTIVE EASTERN MEDITERRA-2
NEAN SECURITY COOPERATION GROUP. 3
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—There is established a group, 4
to be known as the ‘‘Israel, Greece, Cyprus, and United 5
States Interexecutive Eastern Mediterranean Security Co-6
operation Group’’ to serve as a security focused executive 7
component to the ‘‘3+1’’ structure. 8
(b) M
EMBERSHIP.—The Israel, Greece, Cyprus, and 9
the United States Interexecutive Eastern Mediterranean 10
Security Cooperation Group shall include a designated of-11
ficer from: 12
(1) The United States Department of State, ap-13
pointed by the United States Secretary of State. 14
(A) The responsibilities of this designated 15
officer as established in Sec. 7. may be assigned 16
to an existing officer within the Department of 17
State to fulfil the requirements of Sec. 7. 18
(2) The United States Department of Defense, 19
appointed by the United States Secretary of De-20
fense. 21
(A) The responsibilities of this designated 22
officer as established in Sec. 7. may be assigned 23
to an existing officer within the Department of 24
Defense to fulfil the requirements of Sec. 7. 25
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(3) The United States Department of Home-1
land Security, appointed by the United States Sec-2
retary of Homeland Security. 3
(A) The responsibilities of this designated 4
officer as established in Sec. 7. may be assigned 5
to an existing officer within the Department of 6
Homeland Security to fulfil the requirements of 7
Sec. 7. 8
(c) M
EETINGS.—Not less frequently than twice each 9
year, the United States Interexecutive Eastern Mediterra-10
nean Security Cooperation Group shall meet with Israeli, 11
Cypriot, and Greek executive counterpart members to dis-12
cuss issues on the agenda of the executive branch of the 13
Governments of Israel, Greece, the Republic of Cyprus, 14
and the United States regarding counterterrorism and 15
maritime security. 16
SEC. 8. 3+1 COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION TRAINING 17
STRUCTURE. 18
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Defense, in 19
coordination with the Secretary of State, shall establish 20
a counterterrorism training program, to be known as the 21
‘‘Counterterrorism Education for Readiness Building in 22
the East-Mediterranean Region to Unify Security Pro-23
gram’’ or ‘‘CERBERUS’’, which shall— 24
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(1) be used at the Cyprus Center for Land, 1
Open-seas, and Port Security, provided that the 2
Government of the Republic of Cyprus agrees so, 3
with the purpose of increasing counterterrorism co-4
operation and interoperability between the United 5
States, Israel, Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus; 6
and 7
(2) be available to ministry, agency, and head-8
quarters level organizations for such countries. 9
(b) A
DDITIONALREQUIREDELEMENTS OF TRAIN-10
ING.—The training program established under subsection 11
(a) shall promote respect for legitimate civilian authority 12
within the country to which the assistance is provided. 13
(c) R
EPORTS ANDBRIEFINGS.— 14
(1) I
MPLEMENTATION REPORT .—Not later than 15
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 16
and every 180 days thereafter, the Secretary of De-17
fense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, 18
shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-19
mittees a report on the status of the creation and 20
implementation of the training program established 21
under subsection (a) until the Secretary of Defense, 22
in consultation with the Secretary of State, deter-23
mines the training has been established and made 24
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available to the United States, Israel, Greece, and 1
the Republic of Cyprus. 2
(2) T
RAINING STRUCTURE REPORT .—Not later 3
than 90 days after the date on which the Secretary 4
of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of 5
State, determines such training program has been 6
established and made available to the United States, 7
Israel, Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus, they 8
shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-9
mittees a report on the training structure they have 10
created. 11
(3) T
RAINING BRIEFING.—Following the sub-12
mission of the report required by paragraph (2), the 13
Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Sec-14
retary of State, shall provide to the appropriate con-15
gressional committees an annual briefing on the re-16
sults of such training program. 17
SEC. 9. ESTABLISHING A 3+1 MARITIME SECURITY CO-18
OPERATION TRAINING STRUCTURE. 19
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense, in co-20
ordination with the Secretary of State, shall— 21
(1) create a training program to be used at the 22
Greek Souda Naval Base, provided that the Govern-23
ment of Greece agrees, with the purpose of increas-24
ing maritime security cooperation and interoper-25
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ability between the United States, Israel, Greece, 1
and the Republic of Cyprus; and 2
(2) make available such training to ministry, 3
agency, and headquarters level organizations for 4
such countries. 5
(b) D
ESIGNATION.—The provision of assistance and 6
training under this section may be referred to as ‘‘Train-7
ing and Readiness Initiative for Regional East-Mediterra-8
nean Maritime-Security Enforcement’’ or ‘‘TRIREME’’. 9
(c) R
EQUIREDELEMENTS OFTRAINING.—Training 10
provided under subsection (b) shall include elements that 11
promote respect for legitimate civilian authority within the 12
country to which the assistance is provided. 13
(d) R
EPORTS ANDBRIEFINGS.— 14
(1) I
MPLEMENTATION REPORT .—Not later than 15
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 16
and every 180 days thereafter, the Secretary of De-17
fense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, 18
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Con-19
gress a report on the status of the creation and im-20
plementation of the training established in Sec. 9. 21
until the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with 22
the Secretary of State, determines the training has 23
been established and made available to the United 24
States, Israel, Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus. 25
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(2) TRAINING STRUCTURE REPORT .—Not later 1
than 90 days after which the Secretary of Defense, 2
in consultation with the Secretary of State, deter-3
mines the training has been established and made 4
available to the United States, Israel, Greece, and 5
the Republic of Cyprus, they shall submit to the ap-6
propriate committees of Congress a report on the 7
training structure they have created. 8
(3) T
RAINING BRIEFING.—Following the sub-9
mission of the report required by Sec. 9(5)(A)(i), on 10
an annual basis the Secretary of Defense, in con-11
sultation with the Secretary of State, shall submit 12
provide a briefing on the results of the training es-13
tablished through Sec. 9. to the appropriate commit-14
tees of Congress. 15
SEC. 10. REPORTS. 16
(a) S
TRATEGY ONCOUNTERTERROISM COOPERATION 17
IN THE3+1 STRUCTURE.— 18
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than one year 19
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-20
retary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary 21
of State, shall submit to the appropriate congres-22
sional committees a strategy on enhanced counter-23
terrorism cooperation with Israel, Greece, and the 24
Republic of Cyprus. 25
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(2) FORM.—The report required under sub-1
section (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, 2
but may contain a classified annex. 3
(b) S
TRATEGY ONMARITIMESECURITYCOOPERA-4
TION IN THE3+1 STRUCTURE.— 5
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than one year 6
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-7
retary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary 8
of State, shall submit to the appropriate congres-9
sional committees a strategy on enhanced maritime 10
security cooperation with Israel, Greece, and the Re-11
public of Cyprus. 12
(2) F
ORM.—The report required under sub-13
section (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, 14
but may contain a classified annex. 15
SEC. 11. ELIMINATING CERTAIN LIMITATIONS AND EXCLU-16
SIONS REGARDING DEFENSE ARTICLES AND 17
REQUIREMENTS REGARDING SECURITY AS-18
SISTANCE AND SALES WITH RESPECT TO THE 19
REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS. 20
(a) E
LIMINATION OFLIMITATIONS ANDEXCLUSIONS 21
R
EGARDINGDEFENSEARTICLES.—Section 1250A of the 22
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 23
(22 U.S.C. 2373 note) is amended— 24
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(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘REPEAL OF 1
PROHIBITION ON ’’ and inserting ‘‘SENSE OF 2
CONGRESS REGARDING ’’; 3
(2) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(a) S
ENSE 4
OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that’’ 5
and inserting the following: ‘‘It is the sense of Con-6
gress that—’’; and 7
(3) by striking subsections (b), (c), and (d). 8
(b) E
LIMINATION OF REQUIREMENTS REGARDING 9
S
ECURITYASSISTANCE AND CERTAINSALES.—Section 10
620C of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 11
2373) is amended by striking subsections (d) and (e). 12
SEC. 12. AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS. 13
(a) A
VAILABILITY OFFUNDS.— 14
(1) There are authorized to be appropriated to 15
the Department of Defense $5,000,000 to create 16
new facilities at, and acquire new equipment for, the 17
Cyprus Center for Land, Open-seas, and Port Secu-18
rity, in coordination with Minister of Defence of the 19
Republic of Cyprus, for the purposes of counterter-20
rorism cooperation training which can be used to 21
carry out the requirements of section (9). 22
(2) Following the creation of facilities and ac-23
quisition of equipment by the Department of De-24
fense for the purposes specified in paragraph (1), 25
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such facilities and equipment is authorized to be 1
made available to the Government of the Republic of 2
Cyprus. 3
(3) There are authorized to be made available 4
to the Government of the Republic of Cyprus 5
$2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 6
2029 for annual general support of the Cyprus Cen-7
ter for Land, Open-seas, and Port Security. 8
(b) A
UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 9
are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of 10
Defense $1,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 11
2029 for the creation and implementation of the training 12
program in section (8). 13
(c) A
UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 14
are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of 15
Defense $1,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 16
2029 for the creation and implementation of the training 17
program in section (9). 18
(d) IMET C
OOPERATIONWITHISRAEL, GREECE, 19
AND THEREPUBLIC OFCYPRUS.—There are authorized 20
to be appropriated for each of fiscal years 2026 through 21
2029, to enhance interoperability and capabilities for joint 22
operations and for counterterrorism and maritime security 23
education— 24
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(1) $1,000,000 for International Military Edu-1
cation and Training (IMET) assistance for Israel; 2
(2) $250,000 for International Military Edu-3
cation and Training (IMET) assistance for Greece; 4
and 5
(3) $250,000 for International Military Edu-6
cation and Training (IMET) assistance for the Re-7
public of Cyprus. 8
(e) E
XPANDINGMARITIMESECURITYTRAINING 9
F
UNCTIONS OF THE GREEKSOUDANAVYBASE.—There 10
is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of De-11
fense $5,000,000 to create new facilities at, and acquire 12
new equipment for, the Greek Souda Naval Base, in co-13
ordination with Minister of Defence of Greece, for the pur-14
poses of maritime security training which can be used to 15
carry out section (9). 16
(1) Following the creation of facilities and ac-17
quisition of equipment by the Department of De-18
fense for the purposes specified in Sec 11 (1) (A), 19
such facilities and equipment is authorized to be 20
made available to the Government of Greece. 21
(f) G
ENERALSUPPORT.—There is authorized to be 22
made available to the Government of Greece $2,000,000 23
for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2029 for annual gen-24
eral support of the facilities created through section (10). 25
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SEC. 13. APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE DE-1
FINED. 2
In this Act, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-3
mittee’’ means— 4
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the 5
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee 6
on Homeland Security of the House of Representa-7
tives; and 8
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the 9
Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee 10
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 11
the Senate. 12
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