Foreign Relations Authorization, Fy2003 : An Overview

By Epstein, Susan B.

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Title:	Foreign Relations Authorization, Fy2003 : An Overview
Author:	Epstein, Susan B.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Excerpt
Summary: Congress is required by law to authorize the spending of appropriations for the State Department and foreign policy activities every two years. The authorization process dovetails with the annual appropriation process for the Department of State (within the Commerce, Justice, State and Related Agency appropriation) and foreign policy/foreign aid activities (within the foreign operations appropriation).

Table of Contents
Contents Most Recent Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Key Issues–Foreign Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Arms Sales to Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 China-U.S. Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Tibet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Colombia Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Drug Certification Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 East Timor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Family Planning, Abortion Restrictions, and the Mexico City Policy . . . . . . 9 Global Warming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 HIV/AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Human Rights – Child Soldiers, Trafficking, Human Rights and Democracy Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 IMET in Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Jerusalem – U.S. Embassy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 State Department and International Broadcasting Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Deputy Secretary of State for Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Right-Sizing Overseas Posts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Consular Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Minority Recruitment at State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Private Funding for Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 International Broadcasting in the Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 U.N. Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 UNESCO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 U.N. Arrears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Key Issues–Security Assistance Act of 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Military Assistance and Arms Export Control Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Nonproliferation and Export Control Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Russian Debt-Swap for Nonproliferation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Iran Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Nuclear and missile proliferation in South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 State Department Authorization History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26