Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 82 — Afghanistan Freedom Support
§ 7515. Sense of Congress regarding promoting cooperation in opium producing areas
Statutory text
It is the sense of Congress that the President should—
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;
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
define or redefine the boundaries of opium producing areas of Afghanistan for the purposes of this section.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 107–327 title I § 105 · 116 Stat. 2797
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 7515
(Pub. L. 107–327, title I, § 105, Dec. 4, 2002, 116 Stat. 2805.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–327, title I, § 105, Dec. 4, 2002, 116 Stat. 2805.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 105. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING PROMOTING COOPERATION IN OPIUM PRODUCING AREAS. 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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