BUREAU OF EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS.

SEC. 5146. BUREAU OF EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS. Subsection (q) of section 1 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a), as added by section 5114 and amended by section 5132, is further amended by adding at the end the following: “(4) Bureau of east asian and pacific affairs.— “(A) Establishment.—There shall be in the Department of State a Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, which shall perform such functions related to implementation of United States foreign policy to East Asia and the Pacific as the Under Secretary for Political Affairs may prescribe. “(B) Head.—The Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs shall be the head of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. “(C) Definition.—In this paragraph, the term ‘East Asia and the Pacific’ means the region of countries that the Secretary of State designates as within the responsibility of the Bureau for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.” .