---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 5851"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "5851"
heading: "Findings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/5851"
units:
  - "Chapter 67 — Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support"
  - "Subchapter IV — Nonproliferation and Disarmament Programs and Activities"
---

# §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](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) 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.

## Source credit

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