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[CITE: 22USC1962]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
              CHAPTER 24A--MIDDLE EAST PEACE AND STABILITY
 
Sec. 1962. Military assistance; use of armed forces

    The President is authorized to undertake, in the general area of the 
Middle East, military assistance programs with any nation or group of 
nations of that area desiring such assistance. Furthermore, the United 
States regards as vital to the national interest and world peace the 
preservation of the independence and integrity of the nations of the 
Middle East. To this end, if the President determines the necessity 
thereof, the United States is prepared to use armed forces to assist any 
such nation or group of such nations requesting assistance against armed 
aggression from any country controlled by international communism: 
Provided, That such employment shall be consonant with the treaty 
obligations of the United States and with the Constitution of the United 
States.

(Pub. L. 85-7, Sec. 2, Mar. 9, 1957, 71 Stat. 5.)
