Findings

U.S.C. Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE 22 U.S.C. United States Code, 2023 Edition Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE CHAPTER 67 - FREEDOM FOR RUSSIA AND EMERGING EURASIAN DEMOCRACIES AND OPEN MARKETS SUPPORT SUBCHAPTER IV - NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES Sec. 5851 - Findings From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§5851. Findings

The Congress finds that it is in the national security interest of the United States— (1) to facilitate, on a priority basis— (A) the transportation, storage, safeguarding, and destruction of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction of the independent states of the former Soviet Union; (B) the prevention of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and destabilizing conventional weapons of the independent states, and the establishment of verifiable safeguards against the proliferation of such weapons; (C) the prevention of diversion of weapons-related scientific expertise of the former Soviet Union to terrorist groups or third countries; and (D) other efforts designed to reduce the military threat from the former Soviet Union;

(2) to support the conversion of the massive defense-related industry and equipment of the independent states of the former Soviet Union for civilian purposes and uses; and (3) to expand military-to-military contacts between the United States and the independent states.

(Pub. L. 102–511, title V, §501, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3338.)