§ 5602. — Multilateral efforts.
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[CITE: 22USC5602]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 65--CONTROL AND ELIMINATION OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
Sec. 5602. Multilateral efforts
(a) Multilateral controls on proliferation
It is the policy of the United States to seek multilaterally
coordinated efforts with other countries to control the proliferation of
chemical and biological weapons. In furtherance of this policy, the
United States shall--
(1) promote agreements banning the transfer of missiles suitable
for armament with chemical or biological warheads;
(2) set as a top priority the early conclusion of a
comprehensive global agreement banning the use, development,
production, and stockpiling of chemical weapons;
(3) seek and support effective international means of monitoring
and reporting regularly on commerce in equipment, materials, and
technology applicable to the attainment of a chemical or biological
weapons capability; and
(4) pursue and give full support to multilateral sanctions
pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 620, which
declared the intention of the Security Council to give immediate
consideration to imposing ``appropriate and effective'' sanctions
against any country which uses chemical weapons in violation of
international law.
(b) Multilateral controls on chemical agents, precursors, and equipment
It is also the policy of the United States to strengthen efforts to
control chemical agents, precursors, and equipment by taking all
appropriate multilateral diplomatic measures--
(1) to continue to seek a verifiable global ban on chemical
weapons at the 40 nation Conference on Disarmament in Geneva;
(2) to support the Australia Group's objective to support the
norms and restraints against the spread and the use of chemical
warfare, to advance the negotiation of a comprehensive ban on
chemical warfare by taking appropriate measures, and to protect the
Australia Group's domestic industries against inadvertent
association with supply of feedstock chemical equipment that could
be misused to produce chemical weapons;
(3) to implement paragraph (2) by proposing steps complementary
to, and not mutually exclusive of, existing multilateral efforts
seeking a verifiable ban on chemical weapons, such as the
establishment of--
(A) a harmonized list of export control rules and
regulations to prevent relative commercial advantage and
disadvantages accruing to Australia Group members,
(B) liaison officers to the Australia Group's coordinating
entity from within the diplomatic missions,
(C) a close working relationship between the Australia Group
and industry,
(D) a public unclassified warning list of controlled
chemical agents, precursors, and equipment,
(E) information-exchange channels of suspected proliferants,
(F) a ``denial'' list of firms and individuals who violate
the Australia Group's export control provisions, and
(G) broader cooperation between the Australia Group and
other countries whose political commitment to stem the
proliferation of chemical weapons is similar to that of the
Australia Group; and
(4) to adopt the imposition of stricter controls on the export
of chemical agents, precursors, and equipment and to adopt tougher
multilateral sanctions against firms and individuals who violate
these controls or against countries that use chemical weapons.
(Pub. L. 102-182, title III, Sec. 303, Dec. 4, 1991, 105 Stat. 1245.)
