---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1896b"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1896b"
heading: "Colombo Plan Council for Technical Cooperation; authorization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1896b"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Mutual Security Program"
  - "Subchapter III — Economic Assistance"
  - "Part C — Technical Cooperation"
---

# §1896b. Colombo Plan Council for Technical Cooperation; authorization


To enable the United States to maintain membership in the Colombo Plan Council for Technical Cooperation, there is authorized to be appropriated from time to time to the Department of State such sums as may be necessary for the payment by the United States of its share of the expenses of the Colombo Plan Council for Technical Cooperation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–108, ch. V, § 502, July 24, 1959, 73 Stat. 256.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Mutual Security Act of 1959.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Annual Appropriations

Annual appropriations to meet the obligations of membership in various international organizations were contained in acts listed in a note set out under section 269a of this title.