22 U.S.C. § 279 — United States membership in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

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This law lets the President accept US membership in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The Organization's Constitution is attached to a 1944 report from the Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture.

The President is allowed to accept membership for the United States in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, called the "Organization" in this law. The Organization's founding document, its Constitution, is printed 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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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.

Source credit: (July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 1, 59 Stat. 529.)

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1945Enacted · Act of July 31, 1945, ch. 342 · 59 Stat. 529

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