Sec. 4. Reporting and strategy
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall transmit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report regarding the United States engagement with South Sudan. The report required under paragraph
(1)may contain a classified annex and shall include the following: An update on the peace process and a description of the Administration’s direct support for diplomatic engagement, including the United States efforts to mitigate challenges that arise within the negotiations, a description of those challenges, and the overall diplomatic strategy to end the conflict. An assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing peace process and related regional activities impacting the process, and a plan to strengthen that process or to develop complementary or alternative diplomatic efforts to achieve peace and foster stability in South Sudan. An assessment of the impact of existing targeted sanctions on South Sudan, including those sanctions imposed under Executive Order No. 13664 and subsequent actions by the Administration and international community to expand targeted sanctions, and the efforts made to date, including an assessment of the proposed impact of and challenges associated with, building an international consensus to enforce an arms embargo. The Administration’s current policy regarding the export, sale, distribution, transfer, lending, or gift of defense articles or defense services (as such terms are defined in section 47 of the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2794 )) to the Government of the Republic of South Sudan and those armed forces in opposition to the Government of the Republic of South Sudan. A detailed description of the known sources of arms and related material dispatched to the warring parties since the onset of the conflict. A description of the efforts taken by the Administration to support, develop, maintain, or expand foreign assistance programming in parts of South Sudan less affected by conflict or otherwise suited for such programming. An assessment of South Sudan’s domestic capacity to support a hybrid judicial court and the options for the establishment of such a court. Not later than 90 days after the date of transmission of the report required under subsection (a), the President shall transmit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a strategy to guide future United States engagement with South Sudan. The strategy required under paragraph
(1)may contain a classified annex and shall include the following: A plan to help strengthen efforts by the United Nations peacekeeping mission in concert with the regional and international diplomatic and donor community to protect South Sudanese civilians affected by the conflict, particularly women and children. A strategy to advance peace and reconciliation efforts in the South Sudan and for supporting the rule of law in affected areas. An interagency framework plan to coordinate and review diplomatic, development, and military elements of United States policy, including expended, obligated, and requested funding amounts contained in annual budget submissions to Congress, for South Sudan and the region. A description of the Administration’s strategy to support documentation and investigation of instances of human rights abuses and corruption, parties’ financing of the conflict, and to monitor and combat illicit financial flows fueling the ongoing violence, and the resources necessary to adequately support these efforts. A description of ways the United States is working with the United Nations to gather information on events taking place on the ground in South Sudan that may be attributing to instability, as well as information on those individuals of South Sudan or non-native entities that are implicated in violations of international and human rights law, and information regarding the root causes of the proliferation of weapons in South Sudan, and a plan for sharing information with the United Nations Panel of Experts. A plan to assist in refugee and internally displaced persons’
(IDPs)voluntary return and reintegration into communities once they determine conditions are appropriate for return, including efforts to provide support for children needing both psychological and physical rehabilitation. A plan to pursue high-level engagement with the regional and like-minded governments in order promote a better environment for resolution of the crisis, to halt the flow of arms from all external sources, and to support the creation, implementation, and enforcement of a United Nations Security Council arms embargo and targeted individual sanctions on all parties to the conflict in South Sudan.
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