Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73
§3502 Purposes and establishment; policy guidelines and objectives
Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 50— - INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION › § 3502
Summary
The President may set up an Institute to help developing countries use science and technology, support development research, and promote scientific cooperation under the Secretary of State’s guidance. The Institute must follow sections 2151 and 2151–1 and focus most resources on those goals.
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Title 22, §3502
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(a)To strengthen the capacity of the people of developing countries to solve their development problems through scientific and technological innovation, to foster research on problems of development, and to facilitate scientific and technological cooperation with developing countries, the President is authorized to establish an Institute for Scientific and Technological Cooperation (hereafter in this chapter referred to as the “Institute”), which shall be subject to the foreign policy guidance of the Secretary of State.
(b)The Institute shall be guided by the policies set forth in section 2151 and 2151–1 of this title and shall direct a substantial share of its resources to those objectives.
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This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this title”, meaning title IV of Pub. L. 96–53, Aug. 14, 1979, 93 Stat. 371, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of title IV to the Code, see Tables.
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Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 1, 1979, see section 512(a) of Pub. L. 96–53, set out as an
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of 1979 Amendment note under section 2151 of this title.
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22 U.S.C. § 3502
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73