22 U.S.C. § 288 — “International organization” defined; authority of President
submitted 81 years ago by ch. 652 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 225 words · no verdicts yet
This law defines "international organization" for purposes of diplomatic privileges and immunities. It means a public group the U.S. joins by treaty or law, designated by the President. The President can limit, condition, or revoke these privileges for any organization or its staff.
For this subchapter, "international organization" means a public international organization the U.S. participates in under a treaty or under an Act of Congress that authorizes that participation or funds it — and that the President has designated, by executive order, as entitled to the privileges, exemptions, and immunities this subchapter provides.
Based on the functions such an organization performs, the President can, by executive order, withhold or take away from that organization or its officers and employees any of the privileges, exemptions, and immunities this subchapter (including its amendments) provides, or can limit or condition how much of any of them they enjoy.
If, in the President's judgment, it's justified — whether because an international organization or its officers and employees abused these privileges, exemptions, and immunities, or for any other reason — the President can, at any time, revoke that organization's designation. Once revoked, the organization stops counting as an "international organization" for this subchapter.
For the purposes of this subchapter, the term “international organization” means a public international organization in which the United States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress authorizing such participation or making an appropriation for such participation, and which shall have been designated by the President through appropriate Executive order as being entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided in this subchapter. The President shall be authorized, in the light of the functions performed by any such international organization, by appropriate Executive order to withhold or withdraw from any such organization or its officers or employees any of the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided for in this subchapter (including the amendments made by this subchapter) or to condition or limit the enjoyment by any such organization or its officers or employees of any such privilege, exemption, or immunity. The President shall be authorized, if in his judgment such action should be justified by reason of the abuse by an international organization or its officers and employees of the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided in this subchapter or for any other reason, at any time to revoke the designation of any international organization under this section, whereupon the international organization in question shall cease to be classed as an international organization for the purposes of this subchapter.
Source credit: (Dec. 29, 1945, ch. 652, title I, § 1, 59 Stat. 669.)
- 1945Enacted · Act of Dec. 29, 1945, ch. 652 · 59 Stat. 669
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