---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 7515"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "7515"
heading: "Sense of Congress regarding promoting cooperation in opium producing areas"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/7515"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Afghanistan Freedom Support"
  - "Subchapter I — Economic and Democratic Development Assistance for Afghanistan"
---

# §7515. Sense of Congress regarding promoting cooperation in opium producing areas


It is the sense of Congress that the President should—

- (1) to the extent practicable, under such procedures as the President may prescribe, withhold [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) bilateral assistance from, and oppose multilateral assistance to, opium-producing areas of Afghanistan if, within such areas, appropriate cooperation is not provided to the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), the [Government of Afghanistan](/usc/22/7501.md), and [international organizations](/usc/22/4316.md?p=e-2) with respect to the suppression of narcotics cultivation and trafficking, and if withholding such assistance would promote such cooperation;
- (2) redistribute any [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) bilateral assistance (and to promote the redistribution of any multilateral assistance) withheld from an opium-producing area to other areas with respect to which assistance has not been withheld as a consequence of this section; and
- (3) define or redefine the boundaries of opium producing areas of Afghanistan for the purposes of this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–327, title I, § 105, Dec. 4, 2002, 116 Stat. 2805.)