Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 29A — Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center
§ 2081. United States participation in Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center; purposes of Interama
Statutory text
The President is authorized, through such department or agency in the executive branch of the Government as he may designate, to provide for United States participation in the Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as “Interama”). In providing for United States participation, the President shall cooperate with the Inter-American Center Authority (an agency of the State of Florida). The purposes of Interama are—
to provide a permanent international center which will serve as a meeting ground for the governments and industries of the Western Hemisphere and of other areas of the world;
to facilitate broad and continuous exchanges of ideas, persons, and products through cultural, educational, and other exchanges; and
by other appropriate means, to promote mutual understanding between the peoples of the Western Hemisphere and to strengthen the ties which unite the United States with other nations of the free world.
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. 89–355 § 1 · 80 Stat. 5
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 2081
(Pub. L. 89–355, § 1, Feb. 19, 1966, 80 Stat. 5.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 89–355, § 1, Feb. 19, 1966, 80 Stat. 5.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) to provide a permanent international center which will serve as a meeting ground for the governments and industries of the Western Hemisphere and of other areas of the world;
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