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 97 STAT. 1056 PUBLIC LAW 98-164—NOV. 22, 1983 Report to Congress. Definitions. "(2) In determining whether adequate steps have been taken, the President shall give foremost consideration to whether the actions of the government of the country have resulted in the maximum reductions in illicit drug production which were determined to be achievable pursuant to subsection (e)(4). The President shall also consider whether such government has taken the legal and law enforcement measures to enforce in its territory, to the maximum extent possible, the elimination of illicit cultivation and the suppres- sion of illicit manufacture of and traffic in narcotic and psychotropic drugs and other controlled substances, as evidenced by seizures of such drugs and substances and of illicit laboratories and the arrest and prosecution of violators involved in the traffic in such drugs and substances significantly affecting the United States. "(3) If assistance to a country is suspended pursuant to this subsection, such suspension shall continue in force until the Presi- dent determines, and reports to the Congress in writing, that the government of such country has taken the adequate steps described in paragraph (2) of this subsection, including— "(A) having prepared, presented, and committed itself to a plan providing for the control, reduction, and gradual elimina- tion of the illicit cultivation, production, processing, transporta- tion, and distribution of narcotic and psychotropic drugs and other controlled substances within an explicitly stated period of time, with implementation commencing prior to the resumption of United States assistance to or for such country and prior to approval by the United States of the extension of any loan or the furnishing of any financial or technical assistance by any international financial institution to such country; and "(B) having taken legal and law enforcement measures to enforce effective suppression of the illicit cultivation, produc- tion, processing, transportation, and distribution of narcotic and pyschotropic drugs and other controlled substances. "(i) As used in this section— "(1) the term 'legal and law enforcement measures' means— "(A) the enactment and implementation of laws and regu- lations or the implementation of existing laws and regula- tions to provide for the progressive control, reduction, and gradual elimination of the illicit cultivation, production, processing, transportation, and distribution of narcotic drugs and other controlled substances; and "(B) the effective organization, staffing, equipping, fund- ing, and activation of those governmental authorities responsible for narcotics control; "(2) the term 'major illicit drug producing country' means a country producing five metric tons or more of opium or opium derivative during a fiscal year or producing five hundred metric tons or more of coca or marijuana (as the case may be) during a fiscal year; "(3) the term 'narcotic and psychotropic drugs and other controlled substances' has the same meaning as is given by any applicable international narcotics control agreement or domes- tic law of the country or countries concerned; and "(4) the term 'United States assistance' means assistance of any kind which is provided by grant, sale, loan, lease, credit, guaranty, or insurance, or by any other means, by any agency or instrumentality of the United States Government to any foreign country, including—

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