Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 24A — Middle East Peace and Stability
§ 1961. Economic assistance
Statutory text
The President is authorized to cooperate with and assist any nation or group of nations in the general area of the Middle East desiring such assistance in the development of economic strength dedicated to the maintenance of national independence.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 85–7 § 1 · 71 Stat. 5
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 1961
(Pub. L. 85–7, § 1, Mar. 9, 1957, 71 Stat. 5.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 85–7, § 1, Mar. 9, 1957, 71 Stat. 5.)
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1957; Restriction; Report to Congress
Pub. L. 85–7, § 3, , 71 Stat. 5, authorized President to use, for balance of fiscal year 1957, funds not to exceed $200,000,000 for military and economic assistance for Middle East from appropriations available under Mutual Security Act of 1954, restricted availability of funds for military assistance to funds appropriated for military assistance and for economic assistance to funds appropriated for other than military assistance, and required that funds not be available until 15 days after reports on proposed use of funds be supplied to appropriate Congressional committees.
Credits
(Pub. L. 85–7, § 1, , 71 Stat. 5.)