22 U.S.C. § 7511 — Declaration of policy
submitted 24 years ago by Pub. L. 107-327 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 290 words · no verdicts yet
Congress declares that the United States and the international community should support democratic and representative institutions and humanitarian, reconstruction, security, and anti-narcotics efforts in Afghanistan. It also calls for Afghanistan’s neutrality, regional respect for sovereignty, flexible temporary assistance, and related Central Asia efforts.
Congress declares that—(1) the United States and international community should support democratic civil authorities and institutions in Afghanistan and a broad-based, multi-ethnic, gender-sensitive, fully representative government; (2) the United States should provide expertise for immediate humanitarian and refugee needs, fight illegal narcotics production and movement, and help rebuild Afghanistan; (3) peace and security and preventing renewed conflict can help ensure Afghanistan does not again become a source of international terrorism; (4) the United States should support the December 5, 2001, Bonn objectives for Afghanistan’s provisional arrangement as it moves toward permanent institutions, work for Afghanistan’s future neutrality, establish that neighboring and other regional countries must not threaten or interfere with one another’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, or political independence, and support diplomatic initiatives for that goal; (5) Afghanistan’s emergency situation combines security, humanitarian, political, law-enforcement, and development needs, so the President should have maximum flexibility to design, coordinate, and administer assistance and a temporary special assistance program should be established; and (6) to promote stability and democratization and eliminate terrorism’s causes, the United States and international community should support democratic civil authorities and institutions in the broader Central Asia region.
Congress makes the following declarations:
The United States and the international community should support efforts that advance the development of democratic civil authorities and institutions in Afghanistan and the establishment of a new broad-based, multi-ethnic, gender-sensitive, and fully representative government in Afghanistan.
The United States, in particular, should provide its expertise to meet immediate humanitarian and refugee needs, fight the production and flow of illicit narcotics, and aid in the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
By promoting peace and security in Afghanistan and preventing a return to conflict, the United States and the international community can help ensure that Afghanistan does not again become a source for international terrorism.
The United States should support the objectives agreed to on December 5, 2001, in Bonn, Germany, regarding the provisional arrangement for Afghanistan as it moves toward the establishment of permanent institutions and, in particular, should work intensively toward ensuring the future neutrality of Afghanistan, establishing the principle that neighboring countries and other countries in the region do not threaten or interfere in one another’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, or political independence, including supporting diplomatic initiatives to support this goal.
The special emergency situation in Afghanistan, which from the perspective of the American people combines security, humanitarian, political, law enforcement, and development imperatives, requires that the President should receive maximum flexibility in designing, coordinating, and administering efforts with respect to assistance for Afghanistan and that a temporary special program of such assistance should be established for this purpose.
To foster stability and democratization and to effectively eliminate the causes of terrorism, the United States and the international community should also support efforts that advance the development of democratic civil authorities and institutions in the broader Central Asia region.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 107–327, title I, § 101, Dec. 4, 2002, 116 Stat. 2798.)
- 2002Enacted · Pub. L. 107-327 · 116 Stat. 2798
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