§2652c — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of State must pick one of the Assistant Secretaries to be the Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance. That person reports to the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security. Within 30 days after November 29, 1999, the Secretary must write rules for the job. The rules must explain the Assistant Secretary’s duties, how the job relates to other State Department officials, any powers the Secretary gives the Assistant Secretary, and any other details the Secretary thinks needed. The Assistant Secretary’s main job is to supervise all State Department work on verifying and enforcing international arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament commitments. The Assistant Secretary or a designee must join interagency groups that review U.S. plans or actions that directly affect verification or compliance, including intelligence committees that handle measurement, signals, or other technical ways of verifying agreements. They do not have to attend groups where the Secretary or the Under Secretary sits unless sent in their place. The President, or the Director of Central Intelligence, Secretary of Defense, or Secretary of Energy for very sensitive matters, can waive this participation for national security reasons; any waiver must be sent in writing to the appropriate Congressional committees. The Assistant Secretary is the main policy contact with the intelligence community on these issues and is responsible inside the State Department for certain reports, including all reports under section 2577, the verification-related parts of the reports under section 2593a(a)(4)–(6) and section 8003, and other State reports on verification or compliance that were being prepared as of November 29, 1999.

Title 22, §2652c

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(a)The Secretary of State shall designate one of the Assistant Secretaries of State authorized by section 2651a(c)(1) of this title as the Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance. The Assistant Secretary shall report to the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

(b)(1)Not later than 30 days after November 29, 1999, the Secretary of State shall issue a directive governing the position of the Assistant Secretary.

(2)The directive issued under paragraph (1) shall set forth, consistent with this section—

(A)the duties of the Assistant Secretary;

(B)the relationships between the Assistant Secretary and other officials of the Department of State;

(C)any delegation of authority from the Secretary of State to the Assistant Secretary; and

(D)such matters as the Secretary considers appropriate.

(c)(1)The Assistant Secretary shall have as his principal responsibility the overall supervision (including oversight of policy and resources) within the Department of State of all matters relating to verification and compliance with international arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements or commitments.

(2)(A)Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) and (C), the Assistant Secretary, or his designee, shall participate in all interagency groups or organizations within the executive branch of Government that assess, analyze, or review United States planned or ongoing policies, programs, or actions that have a direct bearing on verification or compliance matters, including interagency intelligence committees concerned with the development or exploitation of measurement or signals intelligence or other national technical means of verification.

(B)Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to groups or organizations on which the Secretary of State or the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security sits, unless such official designates the Assistant Secretary to attend in his stead.

(C)(i)The President may waive the provisions of subparagraph (A) if inclusion of the Assistant Secretary would not be in the national security interests of the United States.

(ii)With respect to an interagency group or organization, or meeting thereof, working with exceptionally sensitive information contained in compartments under the control of the Director of Central Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of Energy, such Director or Secretary, as the case may be, may waive the provision of subparagraph (A) if inclusion of the Assistant Secretary would not be in the national security interests of the United States.

(iii)Any waiver of participation under clause (i) or (ii) shall be transmitted in writing to the appropriate committees of Congress.

(3)The Assistant Secretary shall be the principal policy community representative to the intelligence community on verification and compliance matters.

(4)The Assistant Secretary shall have responsibility within the Department of State for—

(A)all reports required pursuant to section 2577 of this title;

(B)so much of the report required under paragraphs (4) through (6) of section 2593a(a) of this title as relates to verification or compliance matters;

(C)so much of the reports required under section 8003 of this title as relates to verification or compliance matters; and

(D)other reports being prepared by the Department of State as of November 29, 1999, relating to arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament verification or compliance matters.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2006—Subsec. (c)(4)(C), (D). Pub. L. 109–401 added subpar. (C) and redesignated former subpar. (C) as (D).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Reference to the Director of Central Intelligence or the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Director’s capacity as the head of the intelligence community deemed to be a reference to the Director of National Intelligence. Reference to the Director of Central Intelligence or the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Director’s capacity as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency deemed to be a reference to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. See section 1081(a), (b) of Pub. L. 108–458, set out as a note under section 3001 of Title 50, War and National Defense. Definitions Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(7) [div. B, title XI, § 1102], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–485, provided that: “In this title [see

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of 1999 Amendment note set out under section 2551 of this title]: “(1) Appropriate committees of congress.—The term ‘appropriate committees of Congress’ means the Committee on International Relations [now Committee on Foreign Affairs] and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. “(2) Assistant secretary.—The term ‘Assistant Secretary’ means the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance designated under section 1112 [22 U.S.C. 2652c]. “(3) Executive agency.—The term ‘Executive agency’ has the meaning given the term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code. “(4) Intelligence community.—The term ‘intelligence community’ has the meaning given the term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)) [now 50 U.S.C. 3003(4)]. “(5) START treaty or treaty.—The term ‘START Treaty’ or ‘Treaty’ means the Treaty With the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, including all agreed statements, annexes, protocols, and memoranda, signed at Moscow on

July 31, 1991. “(6) START ii treaty.—The term ‘START II Treaty’ means the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, and related protocols and memorandum of understanding, signed at Moscow on

January 3, 1993.”

§2652c Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance