Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§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 Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President should, as much as possible and under rules he sets, stop U.S. aid and try to block international aid to parts of Afghanistan that produce opium when those areas do not help the U.S., the Afghan government, and international groups fight opium growing and drug trafficking, and when withholding aid would encourage them to cooperate. He should move any U.S. aid taken away to other areas that were not penalized, and he may set or change the borders used to decide which areas are opium-producing.

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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102