Sec. 103. Training for Foreign Service officers; report
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Section 708 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 ( 22 U.S.C. 4028 ) is amended— by redesignating subsections
(b)and
(c)as subsections
(d)and (e), respectively; in subsection (d), as redesignated, by striking The Secretary of State and inserting ; Refugees.— The Secretary of State in subsection (e), as redesignated, by striking The Secretary of State and inserting ; and Child Soldiers .—The Secretary of State by striking subsection
(a)and inserting the following: The Secretary of State shall develop a curriculum for training United States Foreign Service officers in the scope and strategic value of international religious freedom, how violations of international religious freedom harm fundamental United States interests, how the advancement of international religious freedom can advance such interests, how United States international religious freedom policy should be carried out in practice by United States diplomats and other Foreign Service officers, and the relevance and relationship of international religious freedom to United States defense, diplomacy, development, and public affairs efforts. The Secretary of State shall ensure the availability of sufficient resources to develop and implement such curriculum. The Secretary of State shall carry out paragraph (1)— with the assistance of the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom appointed under section 101(b) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998; in coordination with the Director of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center and other Federal officials as appropriate; and in consultation with the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom established in section 201(a) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 and other relevant stakeholders. Not later than the 1 year after the date of the enactment of the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act , the Director of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center shall begin mandatory training on religious freedom for all Foreign Service officers, including all entry level officers, all officers prior to departure for posting outside the United States, and all outgoing deputy chiefs of mission and ambassadors. Such training shall, at minimum, be a separate, independent, and required segment of each of the following: The A–100 course attended by all Foreign Service officers. The courses required of every Foreign Service officer prior to a posting outside the United States, with segments tailored to the particular religious demography, religious freedom conditions, and United States strategies for advancing religious freedom, in each receiving country. The courses required of all outgoing deputy chiefs of mission and ambassadors. The curriculum and training materials developed pursuant to subsections
(a)and
(b)should be made available to all other Federal agencies. . Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, with the assistance of the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, and the Director of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center, shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report containing a comprehensive plan for undertaking training for Foreign Service officers as required under section 708 of the Foreign Services Act of 1980, as amended by subsection (a).
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