---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 7552"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "7552"
heading: "Sense of Congress regarding protecting Afghanistan’s President"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/7552"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Afghanistan Freedom Support"
  - "Subchapter III — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §7552. Sense of Congress regarding protecting Afghanistan’s President


It is the sense of Congress that—

- (1) any United States physical protection force provided for the personal security of the President of Afghanistan should be composed of United States diplomatic security, law-enforcement, or military personnel, and should not utilize private contracted personnel to provide actual physical protection services;
- (2) United States allies should be invited to volunteer active-duty military or law enforcement personnel to participate in such a protection force; and
- (3) such a protection force should be limited in duration and should be succeeded by qualified Afghan security forces as soon as practicable.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–327, title III, § 302, Dec. 4, 2002, 116 Stat. 2812.)