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[CITE: 22USC2301]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                     CHAPTER 32--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
 
              SUBCHAPTER II--MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
 
                      Part I--Declaration of Policy
 
Sec. 2301. Congressional statement of policy

    The Congress of the United States reaffirms the policy of the United 
States to achieve international peace and security through the United 
Nations so that armed force shall not be used except for individual or 
collective self-defense. The Congress finds that the efforts of the 
United States and other friendly countries to promote peace and security 
continue to require measures of support based upon the principle of 
effective self-help and mutual aid. It is the purpose of subchapter II 
of this chapter to authorize measures in the common defense against 
internal and external aggression, including the furnishing of military 
assistance, upon request, to friendly countries and international 
organizations. In furnishing such military assistance, it remains the 
policy of the United States to continue to exert maximum efforts to 
achieve universal control of weapons of mass destruction and universal 
regulation and reduction of armaments, including armed forces, under 
adequate safeguards to protect complying countries against violation and 
evasion.
    The Congress recognizes that the peace of the world and the security 
of the United States are endangered so long as hostile countries 
continue by threat of military action, by the use of economic pressure, 
and by internal subversion, or other means to attempt to bring under 
their domination peoples now free and independent and continue to deny 
the rights of freedom and self-government to peoples and countries once 
free but now subject to such domination.
    It is the sense of the Congress that an important contribution 
toward peace would be made by the establishment under the Organization 
of American States of an international military force.
    In enacting this legislation, it is therefore the intention of the 
Congress to promote the peace of the world and the foreign policy, 
security, and general welfare of the United States by fostering an 
improved climate of political independence and individual liberty, 
improving the ability of friendly countries and international 
organizations to deter or, if necessary, defeat aggression, facilitating 
arrangements for individual and collective security, assisting friendly 
countries to maintain internal security, and creating an environment of 
security and stability in the developing friendly countries essential to 
their more rapid social, economic, and political progress. The Congress 
urges that all other countries able to contribute join in a common 
undertaking to meet the goals stated in subchapter II of this chapter.
    It is the sense of the Congress that in the administration of 
subchapter II of this chapter priority shall be given to the needs of 
those countries in danger of becoming victims of aggression or in which 
the internal security is threatened by internal subversion inspired or 
supported by hostile countries.
    Finally, the Congress reaffirms its full support of the progress of 
the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization toward increased 
cooperation in political, military, and economic affairs. In particular, 
the Congress welcomes the steps which have been taken to promote 
multilateral programs of coordinated procurement, research, development, 
and production of defense articles and urges that such programs be 
expanded to the fullest extent possible to further the defense of the 
North Atlantic Area.

(Pub. L. 87-195, pt. II, Sec. 501, formerly Sec. 502, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 
Stat. 434, renumbered Sec. 501 and amended Pub. L. 90-137, pt. II, 
Sec. 201(a), Nov. 14, 1967, 81 Stat. 455; Pub. L. 103-199, title VII, 
Sec. 705(1), Dec. 17, 1993, 107 Stat. 2328.)

                       References in Text

    This legislation, referred to in fourth paragraph, means 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 II Deemed To Exclude Certain Parts of 
                              Subchapter II

    References to subchapter II of this chapter are deemed to exclude 
parts IV (Sec. 2346 et seq.), VI (Sec. 2348 et seq.), and VIII 
(Sec. 2349aa et seq.) of subchapter II, and references to subchapter I 
of this chapter are deemed to include 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.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 501 of Pub. L. 87-195, provided that part II of Pub. 
L. 87-195 [subchapter II of this chapter] should be cited as the 
``International Peace and Security Act of 1961'', prior to repeal by 
Pub. L. 88-205, pt. II, Sec. 201(b), Dec. 16, 1963, 77 Stat. 384.


                               Amendments

    1993--Pub. L. 103-199, Sec. 705(1)(A), in second par., substituted 
``hostile countries'' for ``international communism and the countries it 
controls''.
    Pub. L. 103-199, Sec. 705(1)(B), in fourth par., struck out 
``Communist or Communist-supported'' after ``if necessary, defeat''.
    Pub. L. 103-199, Sec. 705(1)(C), in fifth par., substituted 
``aggression or in which the internal security is threatened by internal 
subversion inspired or supported by hostile countries.'' for ``active 
Communist or Communist-supported aggression or those countries in which 
the internal security is threatened by Communist-inspired or Communist-
supported internal subversion.''
    1967--Pub. L. 90-137 inserted par. to indicate that priority shall 
be given in the use of the funds available to defend against Communist 
aggression or Communist-inspired internal subversion.
