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[CITE: 22USC2305]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                     CHAPTER 32--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
 
              SUBCHAPTER II--MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
 
                      Part I--Declaration of Policy
 
Sec. 2305. National Security Assistance Strategy


(a) Multiyear plan

    Not later than 180 days after October 6, 2000, and annually 
thereafter at the time of submission of the congressional presentation 
materials of the foreign operations appropriations budget request, the 
Secretary of State should submit to the appropriate committees of 
Congress a plan setting forth a National Security Assistance Strategy 
for the United States.

(b) Elements of the Strategy

    The National Security Assistance Strategy should--
        (1) set forth a multi-year plan for security assistance 
    programs;
        (2) be consistent with the National Security Strategy of the 
    United States;
        (3) be coordinated with the Secretary of Defense and the 
    Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;
        (4) be prepared, in consultation with other agencies, as 
    appropriate;
        (5) identify overarching security assistance objectives, 
    including identification of the role that specific security 
    assistance programs will play in achieving such objectives;
        (6) identify a primary security assistance objective, as well as 
    specific secondary objectives, for individual countries;
        (7) identify, on a country-by-country basis, how specific 
    resources will be allocated to accomplish both primary and secondary 
    objectives;
        (8) discuss how specific types of assistance, such as foreign 
    military financing and international military education and 
    training, will be combined at the country level to achieve United 
    States objectives; and
        (9) detail, with respect to each of the paragraphs (1) through 
    (8), how specific types of assistance provided pursuant to the Arms 
    Export Control Act [22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.] and the Foreign 
    Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.] are coordinated with 
    United States assistance programs managed by the Department of 
    Defense and other agencies.

(c) Covered assistance

    The National Security Assistance Strategy should cover assistance 
provided under--
        (1) section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763);
        (2) chapter 5 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
    (22 U.S.C. 2347 et seq.); and
        (3) section 516 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 
    2321j].

(Pub. L. 106-280, title V, Sec. 501, Oct. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 854.)

                       References in Text

    The Arms Export Control Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(9), is Pub. 
L. 90-629, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1320, as amended, which is classified 
principally to chapter 39 (Sec. 2751 et seq.) of this title. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 2751 of this title and Tables.
    The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, referred to in subsecs. (b)(9) 
and (c)(2), is Pub. L. 87-195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424, as amended, 
which is classified principally to this chapter. Chapter 5 of part II of 
the Act is classified generally to part V (Sec. 2347 et seq.) of 
subchapter II of this chapter. For complete classification of this Act 
to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2151 of this 
title and Tables.

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Security Assistance Act of 2000, 
and not as part of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which comprises 
this chapter.


                               Definition

    Pub. L. 106-280, Sec. 2, Oct. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 846, provided that: 
``In this Act [see Short Title of 2000 Amendments note set out under 
section 2151 of this title], the term `appropriate committees of 
Congress' means the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the 
Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives.''
