Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§7515 Sense of Congress Regarding Promoting Cooperation in Opium Producing Areas

Title 22 › Chapter 82— AFGHANISTAN FREEDOM SUPPORT › Subchapter I— ECONOMIC AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FOR AFGHANISTAN › § 7515

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President should, when practical and under rules he sets, stop U.S. bilateral aid and work to block international aid to opium-producing areas of Afghanistan that do not help U.S., Afghan, and international efforts to stop growing and moving illegal drugs, if stopping aid would encourage them to cooperate. Any U.S. aid held back should be moved to other Afghan areas that are not being withheld from, and the President should push international donors to do the same. The President may also set or change the boundaries of what counts as opium-producing areas for this rule.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7515

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It is the sense of Congress that the President should—

(1)to the extent practicable, under such procedures as the President may prescribe, withhold United States bilateral assistance from, and oppose multilateral assistance to, opium-producing areas of Afghanistan if, within such areas, appropriate cooperation is not provided to the United States, the Government of Afghanistan, and international organizations with respect to the suppression of narcotics cultivation and trafficking, and if withholding such assistance would promote such cooperation;

(2)redistribute any United States bilateral assistance (and to promote the redistribution of any multilateral assistance) withheld from an opium-producing area to other areas with respect to which assistance has not been withheld as a consequence of this section; and

(3)define or redefine the boundaries of opium producing areas of Afghanistan for the purposes of this section.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 7515

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60