§4029 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The United States must set up training courses for Foreign Service officers and State Department civil servants, including chiefs of mission, on how to do diplomacy with many countries at once. The courses must cover negotiating at international organizations, skills for talks with many parties, how to build coalitions, and lessons from past U.S. multilateral negotiations. The Secretary of State must make sure this training is given at different career stages. New Foreign Service officers must get training when they join. Officers, chiefs of mission, and civil servants assigned to U.S. missions to international organizations or to Washington jobs that mainly handle policy or big multilateral talks must get special training before they start those jobs or, if that is not practical, within the first year.

Title 22, §4029

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(1)It shall be the policy of the United States that training courses should be established for Foreign Service Officers and civil service employees of the State Department, including appropriate chiefs of mission, on the conduct of multilateral diplomacy, including the conduct of negotiations at international organizations and multilateral institutions, negotiating skills that are required at multilateral settings, coalition-building techniques, and lessons learned from previous United States multilateral negotiations.

(2)(A)The Secretary shall ensure that the training described in paragraph (1) is provided at various stages of the career of members of the Service.

(B)The Secretary shall ensure that—

(i)officers of the Service receive training on the conduct of diplomacy at international organizations and other multilateral institutions and at broad-based multilateral negotiations of international instruments as part of their training upon entry into the Service; and

(ii)officers of the Service, including chiefs of mission, who are assigned to United States missions representing the United States to international organizations and other multilateral institutions or who are assigned in Washington, D.C., to positions that have as their primary responsibility formulation of policy toward such organizations and institutions or toward participation in broad-based multilateral negotiations of international instruments, receive specialized training in the areas described in paragraph (1) prior to beginning of service for such assignment or, if receiving such training at that time is not practical, within the first year of beginning such assignment.

(3)The Secretary shall ensure that employees of the Department of State who are members of the civil service and who are assigned to positions described in paragraph (2) receive training described in paragraph (1) prior to the beginning of service for such assignment or, if receiving such training at such time is not practical, within the first year of beginning such assignment.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, and also as part of the 9/11 Commission Implementation Act of 2004, and not as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.

§4029 Increased Training in Multilateral Diplomacy

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Title 22, §4029

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