§10223 Sanctions and Policy Coordination for Burma

Summary

The head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination at the State Department must make a clear plan to use U.S. diplomacy to enforce sanctions on Burma so human rights are protected and civilian rule can return. The plan must coordinate sanctions policy across State and other U.S. agencies; research and vet people and groups for sanctions and work with other agencies and international financial units to help enforce anti‑money‑laundering and anti‑corruption rules; push for a broad international effort to impose multilateral sanctions; support interagency diplomacy (including the U.S. Chief of Mission to Burma, the Ambassador to ASEAN, and the U.S. Representative to the U.N.) to press China and Russia to back multilateral action and to seek a coordinated arms embargo and targeted sanctions on the Burmese military’s economic interests, including by pursuing a U.N. Security Council resolution; and provide timely input for reports on how sanctions affect the military and the people of Burma.