Sec. 202.204. Sense of Congress
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202. 204. Consistent with the policy objectives described in section 4 5 , it is the sense of Congress that— the United States should continue to coordinate with other donor nations, the United Nations, other multilateral agencies, and nongovernmental organizations to enhance the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance to the people suffering as a result of the crisis in Syria; countries hosting Syrian refugees should be commended for their efforts and should be encouraged to maintain an open border policy for fleeing Syrians; the United States Government should continue to work with these partners to help their national systems accommodate the population influx and also maintain delivery of basic services to their own citizens; and the United States Government should seek to identify humanitarian assistance as originating from the American people wherever possible and to the fullest extent practicable, while maintaining consideration for the health and safety of the implementers and recipients of that assistance and the achievement of United States policy goals and the purposes set forth in section 4. all assistance made available under this section should, without restricting the ability of a contractor or grantee to use its own organizational brand or logo for purposes of identification (subject to such standards or regulations as the President may establish), be identified as being From the American People if the relevant Assistant Secretary of State, in consultation with the implementing partner, determines that such identification would not— jeopardize the safety or impartiality of implementing partners that deliver the assistance; jeopardize the health and safety of the intended beneficiaries; compromise the intrinsic independence or neutrality of a program or materials where implementing partner independence or neutrality is inherently important to the success of the effort; undermine United States efforts to empower the democratically oriented political opposition; or otherwise render the provision of assistance impracticable.