2019 US Code
Title 22 - Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 - Foreign Service
Subchapter VII - Career Development, Training, and Orientation
Sec. 4029 - Increased training in multilateral diplomacy
| 22 U.S.C. § 4029 (2019) |
| §4029. Increased training in multilateral diplomacy |
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(1) Statement of policy
It shall be the policy of the United States that training courses should be established for Foreign Service Officers and civil service employees of the State Department, including appropriate chiefs of mission, on the conduct of multilateral diplomacy, including the conduct of negotiations at international organizations and multilateral institutions, negotiating skills that are required at multilateral settings, coalition-building techniques, and lessons learned from previous United States multilateral negotiations. (2) Personnel (A) In generalThe Secretary shall ensure that the training described in paragraph (1) is provided at various stages of the career of members of the Service. The Secretary shall ensure that— (i) officers of the Service receive training on the conduct of diplomacy at international organizations and other multilateral institutions and at broad-based multilateral negotiations of international instruments as part of their training upon entry into the Service; and (ii) officers of the Service, including chiefs of mission, who are assigned to United States missions representing the United States to international organizations and other multilateral institutions or who are assigned in Washington, D.C., to positions that have as their primary responsibility formulation of policy toward such organizations and institutions or toward participation in broad-based multilateral negotiations of international instruments, receive specialized training in the areas described in paragraph (1) prior to beginning of service for such assignment or, if receiving such training at that time is not practical, within the first year of beginning such assignment. The Secretary shall ensure that employees of the Department of State who are members of the civil service and who are assigned to positions described in paragraph (2) receive training described in paragraph (1) prior to the beginning of service for such assignment or, if receiving such training at such time is not practical, within the first year of beginning such assignment. |
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(Pub. L. 108–458, title VII, §7111(c), Dec. 17, 2004, 118 Stat. 3795.) |
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CODIFICATION
Section was enacted as part of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, and also as part of the 9/11 Commission Implementation Act of 2004, and not as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter. |
| United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE |
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| Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE CHAPTER 52 - FOREIGN SERVICE SUBCHAPTER VII - CAREER DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND ORIENTATION Sec. 4029 - Increased training in multilateral diplomacy |
| section 4029 |
| 2019 |
| January 24, 2020 |
| No |
| standard |
| 118 Stat. 3795 |
| Public Law 108-458 |
