§10012 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of State must send a strategy to the appropriate congressional committees within 180 days after January 1, 2021. The Secretary must work with the USAID Administrator and the Secretary of the Treasury. The strategy must set clear U.S. goals and a plan to finish Sudan’s transition to civilian rule. It must explain U.S. help and diplomacy to support a civilian-led government, including possible help for free and fair elections. It must review legal and policy changes done and needed to protect human rights, religious and speech freedoms, and to hold security and intelligence forces accountable for abuses, including sexual and gender-based violence. It must describe how the U.S. will promote those reforms, the humanitarian and development aid and coordination plans, monitoring and evaluation plans with goals and benchmarks (following section 2394c of this title), and an assessment of security sector reforms like demobilizing or integrating militias and promoting civilian control of the armed forces. The Secretary of State must also send a report to the appropriate congressional committees within 1 year after January 1, 2021. That report must describe actions taken to carry out this chapter and give recommendations for laws or administrative steps to help implement it.

Title 22, §10012

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(a)Not later than 180 days after January 1, 2021, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and the Secretary of the Treasury, shall submit a strategy to the appropriate congressional committees that includes—

(1)a clear articulation of specific United States goals and objectives with respect to a successful completion of the transitional period and a plan to achieve such goals and objectives;

(2)a description of assistance and diplomatic engagement to support a civilian-led government in Sudan for the remainder of the transitional period, including any possible support for the organization of free, fair, and credible elections;

(3)an assessment of the legal and policy reforms that have been and need to be taken by the government in Sudan during the transitional period in order to promote—

(A)human rights;

(B)freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and association; and

(C)accountability for human rights abuses, including for sexual and gender-based violence perpetrated by members of the Sudanese security and intelligence services;

(4)a description of efforts to address the legal and policy reforms mentioned in paragraph (3);

(5)a description of humanitarian and development assistance to Sudan and a plan for coordinating such assistance with international donors, regional partners, and local partners;

(6)a description of monitoring and evaluation plans for all forms of assistance to be provided under the strategy in accordance with the monitoring and evaluation requirements of section 2394c of this title, including a detailed description of all associated goals and benchmarks for measuring impact; and

(7)an assessment of security sector reforms undertaken by the Government of Sudan, including efforts to demobilize or integrate militias and to foster civilian control of the armed services.

(b)Not later than 1 year after January 1, 2021, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and the Secretary of the Treasury, shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that includes—

(1)a detailed description of the efforts taken to implement this chapter; and

(2)recommendations for legislative or administrative measures to facilitate the implementation of this chapter.

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This chapter, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle G (§§ 1261–1270E) of title XII of div. A of Pub. L. 116–283, known as the Sudan Democratic Transition, Accountability, and Fiscal Transparency Act of 2020, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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§10012 United States strategy for support to a civilian-led government in Sudan