Connecting Oceania’s Nations With Vanguard Exercises and National Empowerment

This section may be cited as the “Connecting Oceania’s Nations with Vanguard Exercises and National Empowerment Act of 2023” or the “CONVENE Act of 2023”. In this section: The term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— The term “specified country” means— The Secretary of State, in consultation with other relevant Federal departments and agencies, as appropriate, may consult and engage with each specified country to advise and provide assistance to a national security council (including by developing a national security council, if appropriate), or to identify a similar coordinating body for national security matters, comprised of citizens of the specified country— that enables the specified country— The Secretary of State, respecting the unique needs of each specified country, may seek to ensure that the national security council, or other identified coordinating body, of the specified country is composed of sufficient staff and members to enable the activities described in paragraph (5). The Secretary of State may work with the national security council, or other identified coordinating body, of each specified country to ensure that— Not later than 180 days after December 22, 2023, and annually thereafter for 2 years, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that includes— with respect to each specified country, an assessment as to whether— an assessment of— a description of any challenge with respect to— Each report required by subparagraph (A) may be submitted in unclassified form and may include a classified annex. The activities described in this subsection are the following homeland security activities: Coordination of—