International Narcotics Control Act of 1986

International Narcotics Control Act of 1986 - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to promote the eventual elimination of narcotics production and trafficking in order that all countries meet their international obligations with respect to narcotics control efforts. Provides that failure of a country to cooperate in pursuing such goal would provide a basis for implementing a specified section of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 relating to suspension of U.S. aid.

Title I: International Narcotics Control Assistance Program - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the FY 1987 authorization for aid for international narcotics control. Authorizes additional funds for FY 1987 for international narcotics control. Permits such additional funds to be appropriated only if the President has submitted to the Congress: (1) a budget request for such funds; and (2) a plan showing how such funds will be used.

Requires that a specified amount of the FY 1987 authorization for military assistance shall be available only to provide aircraft to countries receiving FY 1987 assistance for narcotics control. Requires such aircraft to be used solely for narcotics control eradication and interdiction efforts. Earmarks at least half such aircraft for Latin America. Requires the use of such aircraft to be administered in accordance with the narcotics control program authorities. Requires such aircraft to be made available to foreign countries only on a lease or loan basis.

Requires the Secretary of State to maintain detailed records on the use of such aircraft. Requires such records to be available to the Congress upon request.

Earmarks a specified amount of the FY 1987 international military education and training funds for education and training in the operation and maintenance of aircraft used in narcotics control interdiction and eradication efforts. Requires such assistance to be coordinated with the narcotics control assistance.

Earmarks a specified amount of the FY 1987 international narcotics control assistance for research on and development of safe and effective herbicides for use in the aerial eradication of coca.

Requires the Comptroller General to investigate and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of the international narcotics control program.

Title II: Improving Law Enforcement and Other Narcotics Control Activities Abroad - Requires the President's annual report to the Congress on the international strategy to prevent cultivation and trafficking in narcotics to include a discussion of the extent to which each source country has cooperated with U.S. narcotics control efforts through the extradition or prosecution of drug traffickers and a description of the status of negotiations with each such country to negotiate an updated extradition treaty.

Commends the decision of the Secretary of State to issue diplomatic passports to officials and employees of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress before changing such policy.

Exempts from the prohibition on participation by U.S. officers or employees in direct police narcotics arrests in a foreign country those U.S. employees in certain foreign countries designated by the Secretary of State. Prohibits U.S. officers or employees in such a country from directly effecting an arrest in that country as part of a foreign police action with respect to narcotics control. Permits the U.S. officer or employee in such a country to assist foreign officers who are effecting an arrest.

Permits U.S. officers or employees in any country to take direct action to protect life or safety if exigent circumstances arise which are unanticipated and pose an immediate threat to U.S. officers or employees, officers or employees of a foreign government, or members of the public.

Requires the executive branch to establish expeditiously the information sharing system that will list all drug arrests of foreign nationals in the United States as required by the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987. Requires the executive branch to report to the Congress when that system has been established.

Urges the President to require that greater priority be given to the collection and sharing of information concerning narcotics related activities abroad. Requires the President to direct that an updated threat assessment of narcotics trafficking from Africa be prepared.

Requires the President to take concrete steps to improve the capability of the executive branch to: (1) collect information on the links between narcotics traffickers and acts of terrorism abroad; and (2) develop the means to respond to the threat which those links pose. Requires the President to report to the Congress on such steps.

Requires a specified amount of the FY 1987 administration of justice program authorization to be used to provide to Colombia or other countries in the region such assistance as requested to protect judicial or other officials who are targets of narcoterrorist attacks.

Urges the Secretary of State to increase efforts to negotiate with relevant countries procedures for the interdiction of vessels suspected of carrying illicit narcotics. Requires the President to take appropriate actions, including denial of access to U.S. ports to vessels registered to a country, if such country refuses to negotiate interdiction procedures. Requires the Secretary of State to submit a semiannual report to the Congress identifying countries that failed to negotiate interdiction procedures.

Authorizes the use of Department of Defense personnel by foreign law enforcement officials in emergencies in order to enforce specified customs and drug laws and the Immigration and Nationality Act. Provides that the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State shall determine jointly whether an emergency exists.

Title III: Development and Narcotics Production and Trafficking - Requires the annual report on foreign aid programs to contain a detailed description of the development programs (other than the narcotics control program) dealing with illicit narcotics production and an assessment of the effectiveness of those programs in reducing illicit narcotics production.

Title IV: Drug Education Program Abroad - Authorizes additional funds for the U.S. Information Agency for FY 1987 which shall be available only for increasing drug education programs abroad.

Authorizes additional funds for development assistance programs for FY 1987 which shall be used for increasing awareness of the effects of production and trafficking of illicit narcotics on source and transit countries.

Requires the Director of the U.S. Information Agency and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development to include in their annual reports to the Congress a description of the drug education programs carried out by their respective agencies.

Title V: United Nations Activities Relating to Drug Narcotics Control - Declares congressional support for the United Nations General Assembly decision to convene in 1987 an International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Calls upon the President to appoint the head of the U.S. delegation well in advance of the conference and ensure that necessary resources are available for U.S. preparation and participation. Requires the President to report to the Congress by April 30, 1987, on the status of U.S. preparations for the conference.

Urges the United Nation Commission on Narcotic Drugs to complete work as soon as possible on a new draft convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Calls for more effective implementation of existing conventions relating to narcotics.

Title VI: Provisions Relating to Specific Countries - Requires a specified amount of the narcotics control assistance for Mexico for FY 1987 to be withheld until the President reports to the Congress that Mexico has investigated the 1985 murders of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent and his pilot and has brought to trial and is effectively prosecuting those responsible for those murders. Requires the Secretary of State to submit monthly reports to the Congress on the illicit drug eradication program in Mexico.

Declares that the President should direct the Secretary of State to start negotiations with Mexico to create a Mexico-United States Intergovernmental Commission on Narcotics and Psychotropic Drug Abuse and Control. Requires the Secretary of State to report to the Congress, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, on the progress in establishing such a commission.

Urges Pakistan to adopt and implement a comprehensive narcotics control program. Requires the Secretary of State to report to the Congress within 60 days of enactment of this Act on the adoption and implementation of such a plan by Pakistan.

Calls upon the President to instruct the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to request that the problem of illicit drug production in Iran, Afghanistan, and Laos be raised at the International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.