PUBLIC LAW 98-164—NOV. 22, 1983 97 STAT. 1055 shall initiate appropriate consultations with members of the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. Such consultations shall include in-person discussions by designated rep- resentatives of the President (including the Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Control and appropriate repre- sentatives of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the Agency for International Develop- ment) to review the worldwide illicit drug production situation and the role that United States assistance to major illicit drug producing countries, and United States contributions to international financial institutions, have in combating the entry of illicit narcotic and pyschotropic drugs and other controlled substances into the United States. Such consultation shall include, with respect to each major illicit drug producing country for which the President is proposing to furnish United States assistance for the next fiscal year, the furnishing of— "(1) a description of the nature of the illicit drug production problem; "(2) an analysis of the climatic, geographic, political, eco- nomic, and social factors that affect the illicit drug production; "(3) a description of the methodology employed to determine the maximum achievable reductions in illicit drug production described pursuant to subsection (e)(4); and "(4) an analysis of any additional United States assistance that would be required to achieve those reductions. The chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs shall each cause the substance of each consultation to be printed in the Congressional Record. "(g) After consultations have been initiated pursuant to subsec- Hearing tion (f), the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Foreign Affairs should hold a hearing to review the report submit- ted pursuant to subsection (e), especially the determinations described in subsection (e)(4). The hearing shall be open to the public unless the committee determines, in accordance with the rules of its House, that the hearing should be closed to the public. "(h)(1) If the President determines that a major illicit drug produc- ing country has failed to take adequate steps to prevent narcotic and psychotropic drugs and other controlled substances produced or processed, in whole or in part, in such country or transported through such country, from being sold illegally within the jurisdic- tion of such country to United States Government personnel or their dependents or from being smuggled into the United States— "(A) the President shall suspend United States assistance to or for such country; and "(B) the Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Recon- struction and Development, the United States Executive Direc- tor of the International Development Association, the United States Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank, and the United States Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank, to vote against any loan or other utilization of the funds of their respective institution to or for such country. Publication in Congressional Record. Suspension of U.S. assistance.
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