; (B) publicly clarify to financial institutions and other entities that United States law does not penalize medical or humanitarian transactions meant to combat COVID–19 in Venezuela, including by updating and republishing the document of the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury entitled Guidance Related to the Provision of Humanitarian Assistance and Support to the Venezuelan People , and dated August 6, 2019; and (C) publicly promote ways that international organizations and governments around the world can best respond to the spread of the COVID–19 pandemic in Venezuela; and (2) the regime of Nicolàs Maduro should immediately— (A) permit the delivery of international humanitarian assistance, including agricultural commodities and medical equipment, for the people of Venezuela; and (B) release all political prisoners who may be at increased risk of contracting or suffering from complications from COVID–19. 246. Sense of Congress on ensuring that sanctions do not inhibit the provision of humanitarian relief to the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the President should— (A) take steps to ensure that sanctions imposed by the United States do not inhibit the delivery and availability of humanitarian relief, including medicine and medical equipment, for the people of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK); (B) publicly clarify to the United Nations, financial institutions, and other entities that United States law does not penalize medical or other humanitarian transactions meant to combat COVID–19 in the DPRK, and publicly promote ways that financial institutions and governments around the world can help fight the pandemic in the DPRK; (C) work quickly with the governments of other countries to set up humanitarian channels for entities to provide assistance related to combating COVID–19 to the DPRK, including for travel for effective aid delivery and program monitoring