Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 63 — Support for East European Democracy (seed)
§ 5491. Suspension of SEED assistance
Statutory text
The President should suspend all assistance to an East European country pursuant to this chapter if the President determines, and reports to the Congress, that—
that country is engaged in international activities directly and fundamentally contrary to United States national security interests;
the president or any other government official of that country initiates martial law or a state of emergency for reasons other than to respond to a natural disaster or a foreign invasion; or
any member who was elected to that country’s parliament has been removed from that office or arrested through extraconstitutional processes.
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.
Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989
Pub. L. 101–179 title VIII § 801 · 103 Stat. 1298
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 5491
(Pub. L. 101–179, title VIII, § 801, Nov. 28, 1989, 103 Stat. 1322.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–179, title VIII, § 801, Nov. 28, 1989, 103 Stat. 1322.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 801. SUSPENSION OF SEED ASSISTANCE. The President should suspend all assistance to an East European country pursuant to this Act if the President determines, and reports to the Congress, that— (1) that country is engaged in international activities directly and fundamentally contrary to United States national security interests; (2) the president or any other government official of that country initiates martial law or a state of emergency for reasons other than to respond to a natural disaster or a foreign invasion; or (3) any member who was elected to that country’s parliament has been removed from that office or arrested through extraconstitutional processes.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 101–179, , 103 Stat. 1298, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5401 of this title and Tables.