Sec. 203. Report and strategy on United States-origin defense articles and services provided to Afghanistan
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on United States-origin defense articles and defense services provided to the Government of Afghanistan on or before August 14, 2021. The report required by paragraph
(1)shall include— an inventory of all United States-origin defense articles and defense services provided to the Government of Afghanistan; an assessment of the current location and disposition of all such articles; an assessment of the risks that such articles pose to United States citizens and interests, regional security, and the people of Afghanistan; an assessment of the most sensitive training provided by the United States to Afghan forces and the current location and status of Afghans who received such training; and an assessment of the counterintelligence risk if the Taliban provides access to United States-origin defense articles to the Russian Federation, Iran, or the People's Republic of China. Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a strategy on United States-origin defense articles and defense services provided to the Government of Afghanistan. The strategy required under subsection
(d)shall include— a plan to recover, destroy, or de-militarize United States-origin defense articles that pose a significant risk to United States citizens and interests, regional security, or the people of Afghanistan; and a plan— to identify Afghan personnel whose training could present a significant risk to regional security or to the people of Afghanistan; and to ensure such personnel are not coerced to support the Taliban or other hostile forces. The report required by subsection
(a)and the strategy required by subsection
(b)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. The terms defense article , defense service , and training have the meanings given those terms in section 47 of the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2794 ).
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