22 USC § 279 - United States membership in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
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identifier: "/us/usc/t22/s279"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "22 USC § 279 - United States membership in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization"
title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
section_number: "279"
section_name: "United States membership in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization"
chapter_number: 7
chapter_name: "INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC."
subchapter_number: "VI"
subchapter_name: "UNITED NATIONS FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 1, 59 Stat. 529.)"
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# § 279. United States membership in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
August 1, 1944
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 .
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**Source Credit**: (July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 1, 59 Stat. 529.)