Establishment of Afghanistan and Pakistan Strategic Partnership Office and Amendment to Executive Order 12163
Headline: Establishes Afghanistan and Pakistan Strategic Partnership Office Within State Department
What it does: Agencies must be supported by a new State Department office to build strategic partnerships with Afghanistan and Pakistan and manage drawdown and assistance funds.
- Changes how federal staff withdraw from Afghanistan during final drawdown.
- Creates a new office that manages certain U.S. assistance funds for both countries.
- Directs agencies to shift toward a normalized diplomatic presence in both countries.
Summary
This order creates a temporary Afghanistan and Pakistan Strategic Partnership Office inside the Department of State to support U.S. government efforts with both countries. The office will help agencies build a strategic partnership, promote security and stabilization, and assist the transition to a normal diplomatic presence.
It will coordinate the final drawdown of State's civilian field operations in Afghanistan, manage certain assistance funds, and be led by a Secretary-appointed Director based in Washington, DC, Pakistan, and Afghanistan; it ends when the temporary authorization expires or the Secretary ends it sooner.
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