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Executive Order 13550 of August 18, 2010 

Establishment of Pakistan and Afghanistan Support Office 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, including section 202 of the Revised 

Statutes (22 U.S.C. 2656) and section 3161 of title 5, United States Code, 

it is hereby ordered as follows: 

Section 1. Establishment. There is established within the Department of 

State, in accordance with section 3161 of title 5, United States Code, a 

temporary organization to be known as the Pakistan and Afghanistan Support 

Office (PASO). 

Sec. 2. Purpose of the Temporary Organization. The purpose of the PASO 

shall be to perform the specific project of supporting executive departments 

and agencies in strengthening the governments in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 

enhancing the capacity of those governments to resist extremists, and maintaining an effective U.S. diplomatic presence in both countries. 

Sec. 3. Functions of the Temporary Organization. In carrying out the purpose 

set forth in section 2, the PASO shall: 

(a) support executive departments and agencies in efforts to enhance civilian control and stable constitutional government in Pakistan, to promote 

a more capable, accountable, and effective government in Afghanistan that 

serves the Afghan people and eventually can function, especially regarding 

internal security, with limited international support, and to stimulate an 

economy that will provide licit opportunity for the people of Pakistan and 

Afghanistan; 

(b) assume the functions assigned to the Afghanistan Support Office (ASO) 

as of the date of this order; and 

(c) perform such other functions related to the specific project set forth 

in section 2 as the Secretary of State (Secretary) may assign. 

Sec. 4. Personnel and Administration. The PASO shall be headed by a 

Director appointed by the Secretary. The PASO shall be based in Washington, 

D.C., Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The Secretary shall transfer from the ASO 

to the PASO the personnel, assets, liabilities, and records of the ASO. 

Sec. 5. General Provisions. 

(a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: 

(i) authority granted by law to a department or agency, or the head 

thereof; or 

(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and 

subject to the availability of appropriations. 


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(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, 

substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party 

against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, 

employees, or agents, or any other person. 

(d) The PASO shall terminate at the end of the maximum period permitted 

by section 3161(a)(1) of title 5, United States Code, unless sooner terminated 

by the Secretary. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

August 18, 2010. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21020 

Filed 8–20–10; 8:45 am] 

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