§ 262p-4a. — Loan programs to reduce economic dependence on illicit narcotics.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC262p-4a]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
Sec. 262p-4a. Loan programs to reduce economic dependence on
illicit narcotics
(a) Findings
The Congress finds that--
(1) the illicit narcotics epidemic currently afflicting the
United States represents a direct threat to the well-being of every
United States citizen;
(2) every effective means must be pursued to reduce the foreign
production and subsequent importation into the United States of
illicit narcotics;
(3) the multilateral development banks can play an integral role
in efforts to control the production of illicit narcotics;
(4) producer country narcotics eradication programs will not be
effective unless such programs provide an economic alternative to
the production of narcotics;
(5) efforts to address the illicit narcotics epidemic through
production control are doomed to failure unless greater effort is
applied to curb use of and demand for illicit narcotics; and
(6) the appropriate role for the multilateral development banks
in the ``War Against Drugs'' is through coordinating and financing
alternative economic opportunities in producer and trafficking
countries.
(b) Loan programs to reduce economic dependence on illicit narcotics
The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States
Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development and the United States Executive Director of the Inter-
American Development Bank to initiate discussions with other executive
directors of such institutions and to advocate and support the creation,
within such institutions, of specific country lending programs and
policies (including crop substitution, creation of roads conducive to
the expansion of markets for licit goods, other infrastructure
development measures such as development projects generating employment,
agricultural extension assistance, and region-specific development
plans) which are particularly oriented to reducing or eliminating the
economic dependence of regions of borrowing countries known to be areas
in which illicit narcotics are produced or trafficked, on such
production and trafficking.
(c) Coordination among assistance programs designed to reduce economic
dependency on illicit narcotics
In addition, the Secretary of the Treasury should instruct the
United States Executive Director of the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development and the United States Executive Director
of the Inter-American Development Bank to encourage such institutions to
provide coordination among other multilateral and bilateral assistance
programs designed to reduce the economic dependence of regions of
borrowing countries known to be areas in which illicit narcotics are
produced or trafficked, on such production and trafficking.
(Pub. L. 95-118, title XVI, Sec. 1606, as added Pub. L. 100-461, title
V, Sec. 555, Oct. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 2268-36.)
Codification
Section 1606 of Pub. L. 95-118 is based on section 6 of H.R. 4645,
One Hundredth Congress, as reported Sept. 28, 1988, and enacted into law
by Pub. L. 100-461.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 1606 of Pub. L. 95-118 was renumbered section 1622
and is classified to section 262p-5 of this title.
Definitions
The definitions in section 262p-5 of this title apply to this
section.
