§2305 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

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The Secretary of State must send Congress a National Security Assistance Strategy no later than 180 days after October 6, 2000, and then every year when the foreign operations budget materials are sent to Congress. The plan must lay out a multi-year program for security aid that matches the U.S. National Security Strategy and is coordinated with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and made with input from other agencies. It must name big goals, say what role each security program plays, pick a main objective and secondary goals for each country, show how money and resources will be split by country, explain how types of help (for example, foreign military financing and international military education and training) will work together, and show how aid under the Arms Export Control Act and the Foreign Assistance Act is coordinated with Defense and other agencies. The strategy must cover assistance under section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act, chapter 5 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act, and section 516 of the Foreign Assistance Act.

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(a)Not later than 180 days after October 6, 2000, and annually thereafter at the time of submission of the congressional presentation materials of the foreign operations appropriations budget request, the Secretary of State should submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a plan setting forth a National Security Assistance Strategy for the United States.

(b)The National Security Assistance Strategy should—

(1)set forth a multi-year plan for security assistance programs;

(2)be consistent with the National Security Strategy of the United States;

(3)be coordinated with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;

(4)be prepared, in consultation with other agencies, as appropriate;

(5)identify overarching security assistance objectives, including identification of the role that specific security assistance programs will play in achieving such objectives;

(6)identify a primary security assistance objective, as well as specific secondary objectives, for individual countries;

(7)identify, on a country-by-country basis, how specific resources will be allocated to accomplish both primary and secondary objectives;

(8)discuss how specific types of assistance, such as foreign military financing and international military education and training, will be combined at the country level to achieve United States objectives; and

(9)detail, with respect to each of the paragraphs (1) through (8), how specific types of assistance provided pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act [22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.] and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.] are coordinated with United States assistance programs managed by the Department of Defense and other agencies.

(c)The National Security Assistance Strategy should cover assistance provided under—

(1)section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763);

(2)chapter 5 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2347 et seq.); and

(3)section 516 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2321j].

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The Arms Export Control Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(9), is Pub. L. 90–629, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1320, which is classified principally to chapter 39 (§ 2751 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 2751 of this title and Tables. The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, referred to in subsecs. (b)(9) and (c)(2), is Pub. L. 87–195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424, which is classified principally to this chapter. Chapter 5 of part II of the Act is classified generally to part V (§ 2347 et seq.) of subchapter II of this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 2151 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Security Assistance Act of 2000, and not as part of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which comprises this chapter.

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Definition Pub. L. 106–280, § 2, Oct. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 846, provided that: “In this Act [see

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of 2000

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note set out under section 2151 of this title], the term ‘appropriate committees of Congress’ means the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations [now Committee on Foreign Affairs] of the House of Representatives.”

§2305 National Security Assistance Strategy

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