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22 U.S.C. § 279d — Limitation on power of Conference to impose new obligations on United States
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Congress adopted this law understanding that the FAO's Conference cannot force new obligations onto the United States. That limit comes from Article XIII, paragraph 2, of the Organization's Constitution.
Congress adopted this subchapter with a specific understanding: paragraph 2 of Article XIII of the Organization's Constitution does not give the Organization's Conference the power to change the Constitution in a way that creates a new obligation for the United States.
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In adopting this subchapter the Congress does so with the understanding that paragraph 2 of article XIII does not authorize the Conference of the Organization to so modify the provisions of its Constitution as to involve any new obligation for the United States.
Source credit: (July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 5, 59 Stat. 530.)
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- 1945Enacted · Act of July 31, 1945, ch. 342 · 59 Stat. 530
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