§4803 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

Within 30 days after December 16, 2016, the State Department must send a classified report to Congress listing which diplomatic and consular posts are labeled high risk, high threat. Before opening or reopening any post, the Secretary must decide if it should get that label. The Secretary must also keep checking existing posts and update the label when local conditions or security change. Appropriate congressional committees: the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. High risk, high threat post: a U.S. diplomatic or consular post or mission abroad that is in a country with high to critical political violence or terrorism, whose government cannot or will not provide adequate security, and whose physical security is below State Department standards.

Title 22, §4803

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(a)Not later than 30 days after December 16, 2016, the Department of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report, in classified form, that contains a list of diplomatic and consular posts designated as high risk, high threat posts.

(b)Before opening or reopening a diplomatic or consular post, the Secretary shall determine if such post should be designated as a high risk, high threat post.

(c)The Secretary shall regularly review existing diplomatic and consular posts to determine if any such post should be designated as a high risk, high threat post if conditions at such post or the surrounding security environment require such a designation.

(d)In this section:

(1)The term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.

(2)The term “high risk, high threat post” means a United States diplomatic or consular post or other United States mission abroad, as determined by the Secretary, that, among other factors—

(A)is located in a country—

(i)with high to critical levels of political violence and terrorism; and

(ii)the government of which lacks the ability or willingness to provide adequate security; and

(B)has mission physical security platforms that fall below the Department of State’s established standards.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 4803, Pub. L. 99–399, title I, § 104(a), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 856, established Bureau of Diplomatic Security in Department of State, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 162(g)(3), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 407. A prior section 104 of Pub. L. 99–399 enacted this section and amended former section 2652 of this title and section 5315 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 162(g)(3), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 407.

Amendments

2017—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–94 inserted “and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives” after “appropriate congressional committees”.

§4803 Designation of high risk, high threat posts