I
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3994
To authorize economic and democratic development assistance for Afghanistan
and to authorize military assistance for Afghanistan and certain other
foreign countries.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 19, 2002
Mr. HYDE (for himself, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. GILMAN, and Mr. ACKERMAN) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Inter-
national Relations
A BILL
To authorize economic and democratic development assist-
ance for Afghanistan and to authorize military assistance
for Afghanistan and certain other foreign countries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS; DEFINI-
TION.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents; definition.
TITLE I—ECONOMIC AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT
ASSISTANCE FOR AFGHANISTAN
Sec. 101. Declaration of policy.
Sec. 102. Purposes of assistance.
Sec. 103. Principles of assistance.
Sec. 104. Authorization of assistance.
Sec. 105. Promoting cooperation in major opium producing regions of Afghani-
stan.
Sec. 106. Coordination of assistance.
Sec. 107. Administrative provisions.
Sec. 108. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE II—MILITARY ASSISTANCE FOR AFGHANISTAN AND CER-
TAIN OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND INTERNATIONAL OR-
GANIZATIONS
Sec. 201. Support for security during transition in Afghanistan.
Sec. 202. Authorization of assistance.
Sec. 203. Eligible foreign countries and eligible international organizations.
Sec. 204. Reimbursement for assistance.
Sec. 205. Authority to provide assistance.
Sec. 206. Sunset.
(c) DEFINITION.—In this Act, the term ‘‘Government
of Afghanistan’’ includes the government of any political
subdivision of Afghanistan, and any agency or instrumen-
tality of the Government of Afghanistan.
TITLE I—ECONOMIC AND DEMO-
CRATIC 
DEVELOPMENT 
AS-
SISTANCE FOR AFGHANISTAN
SEC. 101. DECLARATION OF POLICY.
Congress makes the following declarations:
(1) The United States and the international
community should support efforts that advance the
development of democratic civil authorities and insti-
tutions in Afghanistan and the establishment of a
new broad-based, multi-ethnic, gender-sensitive, and
fully representative government in Afghanistan.
(2) The United States, in particular, should
provide its expertise to meet immediate humani-
tarian and refugee needs, fight the production and
flow of illicit narcotics, and aid in the reconstruction
of Afghanistan’s agriculture, health care, and edu-
cational systems.
(3) By promoting peace and security in Afghan-
istan and preventing a return to conflict, the United
States and the international community can help en-
sure that Afghanistan does not again become a
source for international terrorism.
(4) The United States should support the objec-
tives agreed to on December 5, 2001, in Bonn, Ger-
many, regarding the provisional arrangement for Af-
ghanistan as it moves toward the establishment of
permanent institutions and, in particular, should
work intensively toward ensuring the future neu-
trality of Afghanistan, establishing the principle that
neighboring countries and other countries in the re-
gion do not threaten or interfere in one another’s
sovereignty, territorial integrity, or political inde-
pendence, including supporting diplomatic initiatives
to support this goal.
(5) The special emergency situation in Afghani-
stan, which from the perspective of the American
people combines security, humanitarian, political,
law enforcement, and development imperatives, re-
quires that the President should receive maximum
flexibility in designing, coordinating, and admin-
istering efforts with respect to assistance for Af-
ghanistan and that a temporary special program of
such assistance should be established for this pur-
pose.
SEC. 102. PURPOSES OF ASSISTANCE.
The purposes of assistance authorized by this title
are—
(1) to help assure the security of the United
States and the world by reducing or eliminating the
likelihood of violence against United States or allied
forces in Afghanistan and to reduce the chance that
Afghanistan will again be a source of international
terrorism;
(2) to support the continued efforts of the
United States and the international community to
address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and
among Afghan refugees in neighboring countries;
(3) to fight the production and flow of illicit
narcotics, to control the flow of precursor chemicals
used in the production of heroin, and to enhance and
bolster the capacities of Afghan governmental au-
thorities to control poppy cultivation and related ac-
tivities;
(4) to help achieve a broad-based, multi-ethnic,
gender-sensitive, and fully representative government
in Afghanistan that is freely chosen by the people of
Afghanistan and that respects the human rights of
all Afghans, particularly women, including author-
izing assistance for the rehabilitation and recon-
struction of Afghanistan with a particular emphasis
on meeting the educational, health, and sustenance
needs of women and children to better enable their
full participation in Afghan society;
(5) to support the Government of Afghanistan
in its development of the capacity to facilitate, orga-
nize, develop, and implement projects and activities
that meet the needs of the Afghan people;
(6) to foster the participation of civil society in
the establishment of the new Afghan government in
order to achieve a broad-based, multiethnic, gender-
sensitive, fully representative government freely cho-
sen by the Afghan people, without prejudice to any
decisions which may be freely taken by the Afghan
people about the precise form in which their govern-
ment is to be organized in the future, as may be de-
cided through the convening of a traditional Afghan
assembly or ‘‘Loya Jirga’’ as agreed to on December
5, 2001, in Bonn, Germany; and
(7) to support the reconstruction of Afghani-
stan through, among other things, programs that
create jobs and rebuild the agriculture sector, the
health care system, and the educational system of
Afghanistan.
SEC. 103. PRINCIPLES OF ASSISTANCE.
The following principles should guide the provision of
assistance authorized by this title:
(1) TERRORISM
AND
NARCOTICS
CONTROL.—
Assistance should be designed to reduce the likeli-
hood of harm to United States and other allied
forces in Afghanistan and the region, the likelihood
of additional acts of international terrorism ema-
nating from Afghanistan, and the cultivation, pro-
duction, trafficking, and use of illicit narcotics in Af-
ghanistan.
(2) ROLE OF WOMEN.—Assistance should in-
crease the participation of women at the national,
regional, and local levels in Afghanistan, wherever
feasible, by enhancing the role of women in decision-
making processes, as well as by providing support
for programs that aim to expand economic and edu-
cational opportunities and health programs for
women and educational and health programs for
girls.
(3) AFGHAN
OWNERSHIP.—Assistance should
build upon Afghan traditions and practices. The
strong tradition of community responsibility and
self-reliance in Afghanistan should be built upon to
increase the capacity of the Afghan people and insti-
tutions to participate in the reconstruction of Af-
ghanistan.
(4) STABILITY.—Assistance should encourage
the restoration of security in Afghanistan, including,
among other things, the disarmament, demobiliza-
tion, and reintegration of combatants, and the estab-
lishment of the rule of law, including the establish-
ment of a police force and an effective, independent
judiciary.
(5) COORDINATION.—Assistance should be part
of a larger donor effort for Afghanistan. The mag-
nitude of the devastation—natural and manmade—
to institutions and infrastructure make it imperative
that there be close coordination and collaboration
among donors. The United States should endeavor
to assert its leadership to have the efforts of inter-
national donors help achieve the purposes estab-
lished by this title.
SEC. 104. AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President is authorized to
provide assistance for Afghanistan for the following activi-
ties:
(1) URGENT HUMANITARIAN NEEDS.—To assist
in meeting the urgent humanitarian needs of the
people of Afghanistan, including assistance such
as—
(A) emergency food, shelter, and medical
assistance;
(B) clean drinking water and sanitation;
(C) preventative health care, including
childhood vaccination, therapeutic feeding, ma-
ternal child health services, and infectious dis-
eases surveillance and treatment; and
(D) family tracing and reunification serv-
ices.
(2) REPATRIATION
AND
RESETTLEMENT
OF
REFUGEES
AND
INTERNALLY
DISPLACED
PER-
SONS.—To assist refugees and internally displaced
persons as they return to their home communities in
Afghanistan and to support their reintegration into
those communities, including assistance such as—
(A) assistance identified in paragraph (1);
(B) assistance to communities, including
those in neighboring countries, that have taken
in large numbers of refugees in order to reha-
bilitate or expand social, health, and edu-
cational services that may have suffered as a
result of the influx of large numbers of refu-
gees;
(C) assistance to international organiza-
tions and host governments in maintaining se-
curity by screening refugees to ensure the ex-
clusion of armed combatants, members of for-
eign terrorist organizations, and other individ-
uals not eligible for economic assistance from
the United States; and
(D) assistance for voluntary refugee repa-
triation and reintegration inside Afghanistan
and continued assistance to those refugees who
are unable or unwilling to return.
(3) COUNTERNARCOTICS EFFORTS.—(A) To as-
sist in the eradication of poppy cultivation, the dis-
ruption of heroin production, and the reduction of
the overall supply and demand for illicit narcotics in
Afghanistan and the region, with particular empha-
sis on assistance to—
(i) eradicate opium poppy, establish crop
substitution 
programs, 
purchase 
nonopium
product from farmers in opium-growing areas,
quick-impact public works programs to divert
labor 
from 
narcotics 
production, 
develop
projects directed specifically at narcotics pro-
duction, processing, or trafficking areas to pro-
vide incentives to cooperation in narcotics sup-
pression activities, and related programs;
(ii) establish or provide assistance to one
or more entities within the Government of Af-
ghanistan, including the Afghan State High
Commission for Drug Control, and to provide
training and equipment for the entities, to help
enforce counternarcotics laws in Afghanistan
and limit illicit narcotics growth, production,
and trafficking in Afghanistan;
(iii) train and provide equipment for cus-
toms, police, and other border control entities in
Afghanistan and the region relating to illicit
narcotics interdiction and relating to precursor
chemical controls and interdiction to help dis-
rupt heroin production in Afghanistan and the
region;
(iv) continue the annual opium crop survey
and strategic studies on opium crop planting
and farming in Afghanistan; and
(v) reduce demand for illicit narcotics
among the people of Afghanistan, including ref-
ugees returning to Afghanistan.
(B) For each of the fiscal years 2002 through
2005, not less than $15,000,000 of the amount
made available to carry out this title should be made
available for a contribution to the United Nations
Drug Control Program for the purpose of carrying
out activities described in clauses (i) through (v) of
subparagraph (A). Amounts made available under
the preceding sentence are in addition to amounts
otherwise available for such purposes.
(4) REESTABLISHMENT
OF
FOOD
SECURITY,
REHABILITATION
OF
THE
AGRICULTURE
SECTOR,
IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTH CONDITIONS, AND THE
RECONSTRUCTION OF BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE.—To
assist in expanding access to markets in Afghani-
stan, to increase the availability of food in markets
in Afghanistan, to rehabilitate the agriculture sector
in Afghanistan by creating jobs for former combat-
ants, returning refugees, and internally displaced
persons, to improve health conditions, and assist in
the rebuilding of basic infrastructure in Afghanistan,
including assistance such as—
(A) rehabilitation of the agricultural infra-
structure, including irrigation systems and
rural roads;
(B) extension of credit;
(C) provision of critical agricultural inputs,
such as seeds, tools, and fertilizer, and
strengthening of seed multiplication, certifi-
cation, and distribution systems;
(D) improvement in the quantity and qual-
ity of water available through, among other
things, rehabilitation of existing irrigation sys-
tems and the development of local capacity to
manage irrigation systems;
(E) livestock rehabilitation through market
development and other mechanisms to dis-
tribute stocks to replace those stocks lost as a
result of conflict or drought;
(F) mine awareness and demining pro-
grams and programs to assist mine victims, war
orphans, and widows;
(G) programs relating to infant and young
child feeding, immunizations, vitamin A sup-
plementation, and prevention and treatment of
diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections;
(H) programs to improve maternal and
child health and reduce maternal and child
mortality;
(I) programs to improve hygienic and sani-
tation practices and for the prevention and
treatment of infectious diseases, such as tuber-
culosis and malaria;
(J) programs to reconstitute the delivery of
health care, including the reconstruction of
health clinics or other basic health infrastruc-
ture; and
(K) disarmament, demobilization, and re-
integration of armed combatants into society,
particularly child soldiers.
(5) REESTABLISHMENT OF AFGHANISTAN AS A
VIABLE NATION-STATE.—To assist in the develop-
ment of the capacity of the Government of Afghani-
stan to meet the needs of the people of Afghanistan
through, among other things, support for the devel-
opment and expansion of democratic and market-
based institutions, including assistance such as—
(A) support for international organizations
that provide civil advisers to the Government of
Afghanistan;
(B) support for an educated citizenry
through improved access to basic education;
(C) programs to enable the Government of
Afghanistan to recruit and train teachers, with
special focus on the recruitment and training of
female teachers;
(D) programs to enable the Government of
Afghanistan to develop school curriculum that
incorporates relevant information such as land-
mine awareness, food security and agricultural
education, human rights awareness, and civic
education;
(E) support for the activities of the Gov-
ernment of Afghanistan to draft a new constitu-
tion, other legal frameworks, and other initia-
tives to promote the rule of law in Afghanistan;
(F) support to increase the transparency,
accountability, and participatory nature of gov-
ernmental institutions, including programs de-
signed to combat corruption and other pro-
grams for the promotion of good governance;
(G) support for an independent media;
(H) programs that support the expanded
participation of women and members of all eth-
nic groups in government at national, regional,
and local levels;
(I) programs to strengthen civil society or-
ganizations that promote human rights and
support human rights monitoring;
(J) support for national, regional, and
local elections and political party development;
and
(K) support for the effective administra-
tion of justice at the national, regional, and
local levels, including the establishment of a re-
sponsible and community-based police force.
(6) MARKET ECONOMY.—To support the estab-
lishment of a market economy, the establishment of
private financial institutions, the adoption of policies
to promote foreign direct investment, the develop-
ment of a basic telecommunication infrastructure,
and the development of trade and other commercial
links with countries in the region and with the
United States, including policies to—
(A) encourage the return of Afghanistan
citizens or nationals living abroad who have
marketable and business-related skills;
(B) establish financial institutions, includ-
ing credit unions, cooperatives, and other enti-