22 U.S.C. § 4501 — Findings and declarations
submitted 43 years ago by Pub. L. 98-164 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 258 words · no verdicts yet
Congress says that independently verified knowledge about Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states is important to United States security, foreign relations, and domestic affairs. It identifies training, research, sharing results, cooperation, firsthand experience, and stable long-term funding as necessary to maintain that knowledge.
Congress finds and declares that: (1) independently verified factual knowledge about Eastern Europe and the independent states of the former Soviet Union is extremely important to United States national security, foreign relations, and domestic management; (2) that knowledge depends on advanced research by highly trained and experienced specialists who can serve inside or outside government; (3) essential functions include (A) graduate training, (B) advanced research, (C) public sharing of research data, methods, and findings, (D) contact and cooperation among government and private specialists, and (E) firsthand experience of those countries by American specialists, including, when practicable, on-site advanced training and research; and (4) it is in the national interest for the United States Government to provide stable financial support for these functions, supplement support already provided by Federal, State, local, regional, and private sources, and thereby stabilize these functions nationwide, consistently, and over the long term on an unclassified basis.
The Congress finds and declares that—
factual knowledge, independently verified, about the countries of Eastern Europe and the independent states of the former Soviet Union is of the utmost importance for the national security of the United States, for the furtherance of our national interests in the conduct of foreign relations, and for the prudent management of our domestic affairs;
the development and maintenance of knowledge about the countries of Eastern Europe and the independent states of the former Soviet Union depends upon the national capability for advanced research by highly trained and experienced specialists, available for service in and out of Government;
certain essential functions are necessary to ensure the existence of that knowledge and the capability to sustain it, including—
graduate training;
advanced research;
public dissemination of research data, methods, and findings;
contact and collaboration among Government and private specialists; and
firsthand experience of the countries of Eastern Europe and the independent states of the former Soviet Union by American specialists, including on site conduct of advanced training and research to the extent practicable; and
it is in the national interest for the United States Government to provide a stable source of financial support for the functions described in this section and to supplement the financial support for those functions which is currently being furnished by Federal, State, local, regional, and private agencies, organizations, and individuals, and thereby to stabilize the conduct of these functions on a national scale, consistently, and on a long range unclassified basis.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 98–164, title VIII, § 802, Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1047; Pub. L. 103–199, title III, § 302(3), Dec. 17, 1993, 107 Stat. 2322.)
- 1983Enacted · Pub. L. 98-164 · 97 Stat. 1047
- 1993Amended · Pub. L. 103-199 · 107 Stat. 2322
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 98-164 on 1983-11-22.
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