Sec. 9. Training for Foreign Service personnel on risk management practices
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall develop and submit to the appropriate congressional committees a strategy to train and educate Foreign Service personnel on appropriate risk management practices when conducting their duties in high risk, high threat environments. Such strategy shall include the following elements: Plans to develop and offer additional training courses, or augment existing courses, for Foreign Service officers regarding the conduct of their duties in high risk, high threat environments outside of diplomatic compounds, including for diplomatic personnel such as political officers, economic officers, consular officers, and others.
Plans to educate Senior Foreign Service personnel serving abroad, including ambassadors, chiefs of mission, deputy chiefs of missions, and regional security officers, on appropriate risk management practices to employ when evaluating requests for diplomatic operations in high risk, high threat environments outside of diplomatic compounds.