BUREAU OF EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN AFFAIRS.

SEC. 5159. BUREAU OF EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN 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 5156, is further amended by adding at the end the following: “(9) Bureau of european and eurasian affairs.— “(A) Establishment.—There shall be in the Department of State a Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, which shall perform such functions related to implementation of United States foreign policy to Europe and Eurasia as the Under Secretary for Political Affairs may prescribe. “(B) Head.—The Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs shall be the head of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. “(C) Definition.—In this paragraph, the term ‘Europe and Eurasia’ means the region of countries that the Secretary of State designates as within the responsibility of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.” .