Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§3406 Trilateral scientific and technological cooperation by Egypt, Israel, and United States

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 49— - SUPPORT OF PEACE TREATY BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORT › § 3406

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Congress says the United States should be ready to join three-way science and technology projects with Egypt and Israel to help build peace in the region. The President must write a plan for how U.S. government agencies and private groups would take part. The plan must name possible projects (like farming, health, energy, environment, education, and water), list what resources are available or needed, and explain how the projects would be carried out.

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Title 22, §3406

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(a)It is the sense of the Congress that, in order to continue to build the structure of peace in the Middle East, the United States should be prepared to participate, at an appropriate time, in trilateral cooperative projects of a scientific and technological nature involving Egypt, Israel, and the United States.

(b)Therefore, the President shall develop a plan to guide the participation of both United States Government agencies and private institutions in such projects. This plan shall identify—

(1)potential projects in a variety of areas appropriate for scientific and technological cooperation by the three countries, including agriculture, health, energy, the environment, education, and water resources;

(2)the resources which are available or which would be needed to implement such projects; and

(3)the means by which such projects would be implemented.

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1981—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 97–113 struck out subsec. (c) which required Presidential report to Congress no later than twelve months after July 20, 1979, respecting trilateral cooperative projects between Egypt, Israel, and the United States.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 3406

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73