ROLE OF THE NATIONAL FOREIGN AFFAIRS TRAINING CENTER

SEC. 126. ROLE OF THE NATIONAL FOREIGN AFFAIRS TRAINING CENTER Chapter 7 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 is amended— (1) in the chapter title, by striking “Foreign Service Institute,”; (2) in section 701 (22 U.S.C. 4021)— (A) by striking the section title and inserting “Institution for Training.”; (B) in subsection (a)— (i) by striking the subsection heading and inserting “Institution or Center for Training”; (ii) by striking “the Foreign Service Institute (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the ‘Institute’)” and inserting “an institution or center for training (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the ‘institution’)”; and (iii) by striking “Institute” and inserting “institution”; and (C) by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(d) (1) The Secretary of State is authorized to provide for special professional foreign affairs training and instruction of employees of foreign governments through the institution. 108 STAT. 394 “(2) Training and instruction under paragraph (1) shall be on a reimbursable or advance-of-funds basis. Such reimbursements or advances to the Department of State may be provided by an agency of the United States Government or by a foreign government and shall be credited to the currently available applicable appropriation account. “(3) In making such training available to employees of foreign governments, priority consideration should be given to officials of newly emerging democratic nations and then to such other countries as the Secretary determines to be in the national interest of the United States. “(4) The authorities of section 704 shall apply to training and instruction provided under this section.”; and (3) in sections 701(b), 702, 704, 705, and 707, by striking “Foreign Service Institute” and “Institute” each place such terms appear and inserting “institution”.