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[CITE: 22USC2221]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                     CHAPTER 32--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
 
                 SUBCHAPTER I--INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
 
           Part III--International Organizations and Programs
 
Sec. 2221. General authority


(a) Voluntary contributions; grants and loans in case of the Indus Basin 
        Development Fund

    When he determines it to be in the national interest, the President 
is authorized to make voluntary contributions on a grant basis to 
international organizations and to programs administered by such 
organizations, and in the case of the Indus Basin Development Fund 
administered by the International Bank for Reconstruction and 
Development to make grants and loans payable as to principal and 
interest in United States dollars and subject to the provisions of 
section 2151t(b) of this title, on such terms and conditions as he may 
determine, in order to further the purposes of subchapter I of this 
chapter.

(b) Repealed. Pub. L. 97-113, title VII, Sec. 734(a)(1), Dec. 29, 1981, 
        95 Stat. 1560

(c) Palestine refugees; considerations and conditions for furnishing 
        assistance

    No contributions by the United States shall be made to the United 
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 
except on the condition that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency 
take all possible measures to assure that no part of the United States 
contribution shall be used to furnish assistance to any refugee who is 
receiving military training as a member of the so-called Palestine 
Liberation Army or any other guerrilla type organization or who has 
engaged in any act of terrorism.

(d) Audit of funds; report to Congress and the President

    In any case in which a fund established solely by United States 
contributions under this chapter or any other Act is administered by an 
international organization under the terms of an agreement between the 
United States and such international organization, such agreement shall 
provide that the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct 
such audits as are necessary to assure that such fund is administered in 
accordance with such agreement. The President shall undertake to modify 
any existing agreement entered into before November 14, 1967, to conform 
to the requirements of the preceding sentence. The Comptroller General 
shall report simultaneously to the Congress and the President the 
results of the audits conducted under this subsection.

(e) Evaluation of United Nations and its affiliated organizations; 
        International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Asian 
        Development Bank

    (1) In the case of the United Nations and its affiliated 
organizations, including the International Atomic Energy Agency, the 
President shall, acting through the United States representative to such 
organizations, propose and actively seek the establishment by the 
governing authorities of such organizations of external, professionally 
qualified groups of appropriate size for the purpose of providing an 
independent and continuous program of selective examination, review, 
evaluation, and audits of the programs and activities of such 
organizations. Such proposal shall provide that such groups shall be 
established in accordance with such terms of reference as such governing 
authority may prescribe and that the reports of such groups on each 
examination, review, evaluation, or audit shall be submitted directly to 
such governing authority for transmittal to the representative of each 
individual member nation. Such proposal shall further include a 
statement of auditing and reporting standards, as prepared by the 
Comptroller General of the United States, for the consideration of the 
governing authority of the international organization concerned to 
assist in formulating terms of reference for such review and evaluation 
groups.
    (2) In the case of the International Bank for Reconstruction and 
Development and the Asian Development Bank, the President shall, acting 
through the United States representative to such organizations, propose 
and actively seek the establishment by the governing authorities of such 
organizations professionally qualified groups of appropriate size for 
the purpose of providing an independent and continuous program of 
selective examination, review, evaluation, and audit of the programs and 
activities of such organizations. Such proposal shall provide that such 
groups shall be established in accordance with such terms of reference 
as such governing authorities may prescribe, and that the reports of 
such groups on each examination, review, evaluation, or audit shall be 
submitted directly to such governing authority for transmittal to the 
representative of each individual member nation. Such proposal shall 
further include a statement of auditing and reporting standards, as 
prepared by the Comptroller General of the United States, for the 
consideration of the governing authority of the international 
organization concerned to assist in formulating terms of reference for 
such review and evaluation groups.

(f) International Fertilizer Development Center; United States 
        participation and assistance

    The President is hereby authorized to permit United States 
participation in the International Fertilizer Development Center and is 
authorized to use any of the funds made available under this part for 
the purpose of furnishing assistance to the Center on such terms and 
conditions as he may determine.

(g) Transfer of funding of technological assistance programs to United 
        Nations Development Program

    It is the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct 
the appropriate representatives of the United States to the United 
Nations to encourage the specialized agencies of the United Nations to 
transfer the funding of technical assistance programs carried out by 
such agencies to the United Nations Development Program.

(h) International Food Policy Research Institute; availability of funds, 
        etc.

    The President is authorized to permit the United States to 
participate in and to use any of the funds made available under 
subchapter I of this chapter after December 29, 1981, for the purpose of 
furnishing assistance (on such terms and conditions as the President may 
determine) to the International Food Policy Research Institute.

(Pub. L. 87-195, pt. I, Sec. 301, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 433; Pub. L. 
89-171, pt. I, Sec. 106 (a), Sept. 6, 1965, 79 Stat. 656; Pub. L. 89-
583, pt. I, Sec. 107(a)-(c), Sept. 19, 1966, 80 Stat. 800; Pub. L. 90-
137, pt. I, Sec. 110(a), Nov. 14, 1967, 81 Stat. 453; Pub. L. 91-175, 
pt. I, Sec. 108(a), Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 819; Pub. L. 93-189, 
Sec. 9(1), Dec. 17, 1973, 87 Stat. 718; Pub. L. 94-161, title III, 
Sec. 313(c), Dec. 20, 1975, 89 Stat. 866; Pub. L. 95-424, title I, 
Secs. 102(b)(2)(A), 117(d), Oct. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 941, 953; Pub. L. 96-
533, title VII, Sec. 702, Dec. 16, 1980, 94 Stat. 3156; Pub. L. 97-113, 
title III, Sec. 311(a), title VII, Sec. 734(a)(1), Dec. 29, 1981, 95 
Stat. 1536, 1560.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in subsec. (d), was in the original ``this 
Act'', meaning Pub. L. 87-195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424, as amended, 
known as the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. For complete classification 
of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2151 
of this title and Tables.


References to Subchapter I Deemed To Include Certain Parts of Subchapter 
                                   II

    References to subchapter I of this chapter are deemed to include 
parts IV (Sec. 2346 et seq.), VI (Sec. 2348 et seq.), and VIII 
(Sec. 2349aa et seq.) of subchapter II of this chapter, and references 
to subchapter II are deemed to exclude such parts. See section 202(b) of 
Pub. L. 92-226, set out as a note under section 2346 of this title, and 
sections 2348c and 2349aa-5 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1981--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97-113, Sec. 734(a)(1), struck out 
subsec. (b) which limited contributions to United Nations Development 
Program and restricted assistance to Cuba. See section 2370(f) of this 
title.
    Subsec. (e)(3). Pub. L. 97-113, Sec. 734(a)(1), struck out par. (3) 
which required reports by the President and the General Accounting 
Office of their evaluation of reports of international organizations to 
United States representatives on those organizations. See section 2394 
of this title.
    Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 97-113, Sec. 311(a), added subsec. (h).
    1980--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 96-533, Sec. 702(a), required the 
Comptroller General to report to Congress and the President the results 
of the audits.
    Subsec. (e)(1). Pub. L. 96-533, Sec. 702(b)(1)-(3), substituted 
``organizations of external, professionally'' for ``organizations a 
single professionally'', ``groups'' for ``group'' in three places, 
``evaluation, and audits'' for ``and evaluation'', and ``evaluation, or 
audit'' for ``and evaluation''.
    Subsec. (e)(2). Pub. L. 96-533, Sec. 702(b)(4), (5), required audits 
of programs and activities and reports of professionally qualified 
groups to include such audits.
    Subsec. (e)(3). Pub. L. 96-533, Sec. 702(b)(6), required the 
Comptroller General to include in the reports to Congress and the 
President his evaluation of the reports received by the United States 
representatives to the international organizations and related 
information.
    1978--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95-424 substituted ``section 2151t(b) of 
this title'' for ``section 2161(d) of this title''.
    Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 95-424 added subsec. (g).
    1975--Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 94-161 added subsec. (f).
    1973--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 93-189 added subsec. (e).
    1969--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 91-175 omitted provisions dealing with 
Israel and Arab governments taking steps toward repatriation of refugees 
and the extent and success of the United Nations and Arab governments to 
rectify refugees relief rolls, as criteria for the President to use in 
determining whether to furnish assistance for such refugees through 
contributions to the United Nations, omitted provisions dealing with 
amount of contribution for the fiscal year 1967, and expanded 
prohibition against the inclusion of members of other guerrilla type 
organizations or refugees engaged in any act of terrorism.
    1967--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 90-137 added subsec. (d).
    1966--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 89-583, Sec. 107(a), authorized in the 
case of the Indus Basin Development Executive grants and loans payable 
as to principal and interest in United States dollars and subject to the 
provisions of section 2161(d) of this title.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 89-583, Sec. 107(b), substituted ``United 
Nations Development Program'' for ``United Nations Expanded Program of 
Technical Assistance and the United States Special Fund'' and restricted 
economic or technical assistance to Cuba.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 89-583, Sec. 107(c), substituted provisions 
limiting contributions by the United States for fiscal year 1967 to 
$13,300,000, for provisions limiting contributions for calendar year 
1966 to $15,200,000 and prohibited the making of contributions assisting 
any refugee who is receiving military training as a member of the 
Palestine Liberation Army.
    1965--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 89-171 limited contributions by the 
United States to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for 
Palestine Refugees in the Near East to $15,200,000 for the calendar year 
1966.


                    Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 95-424 effective Oct. 1, 1978, see section 605 
of Pub. L. 95-424, set out as a note under section 2151 of this title.

                         Delegation of Functions

    For delegation of functions of President under this section, see Ex. 
Ord. No. 12163, Sept. 29, 1979, 44 F.R. 56673, as amended, set out as a 
note under section 2381 of this title.


                Use of Contributions for Projects in Cuba

    Pub. L. 91-194, title I, Sec. 100, Feb. 9, 1970, 84 Stat. 5, 
provided in part: ``That the President shall seek to assure that no 
contribution to the United Nations Development Program authorized by the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended [section 2151 et seq. of this 
title], shall be used for projects for economic or technical assistance 
to the Government of Cuba, so long as Cuba is governed by the Castro 
regime.''
    Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 89-691, title I, 
Sec. 100, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 1018; Pub. L. 90-249, title I, 
Sec. 100, Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 936; Pub. L. 90-581, title I, Sec. 100, 
Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1137.
