---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1645"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1645"
heading: "Congressional declaration of purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1645"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Settlement of International Claims"
  - "Subchapter VII — Claims Against Vietnam"
---

# §1645. Congressional declaration of purpose


It is the purpose of this subchapter to provide for the determination of the validity and amounts of outstanding claims against [Vietnam](/usc/22/1645a.md?p=4) which arose out of the nationalization, expropriation, or other taking of (or special measures directed against) [property](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=3) of nationals of the United States. This subchapter shall not be construed as authorizing or as any intention to authorize an appropriation by the United States for the purpose of paying such claims.


## Source credit

(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title VII, § 701, as added Pub. L. 96–606, Dec. 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 3534.)