Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§279 United States Membership in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

Title 22 › CHAPTER 7 — INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › SUBCHAPTER VI — UNITED NATIONS FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION › § 279

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Lets the President accept United States membership in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The organization's constitution is the version printed in Appendix I of the Interim Commission’s First Report to the Governments of the United Nations dated August 1, 1944.

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Title 22, §279

Foreign Relations and Intercourse, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The President is hereby authorized to accept membership for the United States in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (hereinafter referred to as the “Organization”) the Constitution of which is set forth in appendix I of the First Report to the Governments of the United Nations by the Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture, dated August 1, 1944.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 279

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102