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[CITE: 22USC4411]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
               CHAPTER 54--PRIVATE ORGANIZATION ASSISTANCE
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
 
Sec. 4411. Findings; statement of purposes

    (a) The Congress finds that there has been established in the 
District of Columbia a private, nonprofit corporation known as the 
National Endowment for Democracy (hereafter in this subchapter referred 
to as the ``Endowment'') which is not an agency or establishment of the 
United States Government.
    (b) The purposes of the Endowment, as set forth in its articles of 
incorporation, are--
        (1) to encourage free and democratic institutions throughout the 
    world through private sector initiatives, including activities which 
    promote the individual rights and freedoms (including 
    internationally recognized human rights) which are essential to the 
    functioning of democratic institutions;
        (2) to facilitate exchanges between United States private sector 
    groups (especially the two major American political parties, labor, 
    and business) and democratic groups abroad;
        (3) to promote United States nongovernmental participation 
    (especially through the two major American political parties, labor, 
    business, and other private sector groups) in democratic training 
    programs and democratic institution-building abroad;
        (4) to strengthen democratic electoral processes abroad through 
    timely measures in cooperation with indigenous democratic forces;
        (5) to support the participation of the two major American 
    political parties, labor, business, and other United States private 
    sector groups in fostering cooperation with those abroad dedicated 
    to the cultural values, institutions, and organizations of 
    democratic pluralism; and
        (6) to encourage the establishment and growth of democratic 
    development in a manner consistent both with the broad concerns of 
    United States national interests and with the specific requirements 
    of the democratic groups in other countries which are aided by 
    programs funded by the Endowment.

(Pub. L. 98-164, title V, Sec. 502, Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1039.)


                               Short Title

    Section 501 of title V of Pub. L. 98-164 provided that: ``This title 
[enacting this subchapter] may be cited as the `National Endowment for 
Democracy Act'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 4412, 4413 of this title.
