Sec. 1064. Interagency strategy to disrupt and dismantle narcotics production and trafficking and affiliated networks linked to the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria
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It is the sense of Congress that— the captagon trade linked to the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria is a transnational security threat; and the United States should develop and implement an interagency strategy to deny, degrade, and dismantle Assad-linked narcotics production and trafficking networks. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Director of National Intelligence, and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies shall jointly submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report containing a strategy to disrupt and dismantle narcotics production and trafficking and affiliated networks linked to the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Such strategy shall include each of the following: A strategy to target, disrupt and degrade networks that directly and indirectly support the narcotics infrastructure of the Assad regime, particularly through diplomatic and intelligence support to law enforcement investigations. The use of sanctions authorities and associated actions to target individuals and entities directly or indirectly associated with the narcotics infrastructure of the Assad regime. The use global diplomatic engagements associated with the economic pressure campaign against the Assad regime to target its narcotics infrastructure.
Leveraging multilateral institutions and cooperation with international partners to disrupt the narcotics infrastructure of the Assad regime. Mobilizing a public communications campaign to increase awareness of the extent of the connection of the Assad regime to illicit narcotics trade. The report required under subsection
(b)shall be submitted in an unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional defense committees; the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Financial Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.