---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2296"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2296"
heading: "United States assistance to promote reconciliation and recovery from regional conflicts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2296"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Foreign Assistance"
  - "Subchapter I — International Development"
  - "Part XII — Support for the Economic and Political Independence of the Countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia"
---

# §2296. United States assistance to promote reconciliation and recovery from regional conflicts

- (a) **Purpose of assistance—** The purposes of assistance under this section include—
  - (1) the creation of the basis for reconciliation between belligerents;
  - (2) the promotion of economic development in areas of the [countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia](/usc/22/2296f.md?p=2) impacted by civil conflict and war; and
  - (3) the encouragement of broad regional cooperation among [countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia](/usc/22/2296f.md?p=2) that have been destabilized by internal conflicts.
- (b) **Authorization for assistance—**
  - (1) **In general—** To carry out the purposes of [subsection (a)](#a), the President is authorized to provide humanitarian assistance and economic reconstruction assistance for the [countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia](/usc/22/2296f.md?p=2) to [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) the activities described in [subsection (c)](#c).
  - (2) **Definition of humanitarian assistance—** In this subsection, the term “humanitarian assistance” means assistance to meet humanitarian needs, including needs for food, medicine, medical supplies and equipment, education, and clothing.
- (c) **Activities supported—** Activities that may be supported by assistance under [subsection (b)](#b) include—
  - (1) providing for the humanitarian needs of victims of the conflicts;
  - (2) facilitating the return of refugees and internally displaced persons to their homes; and
  - (3) assisting in the reconstruction of residential and economic infrastructure destroyed by war.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–195, pt. I, § 499, as added Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(2) [title V, § 596(b)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1535, 1501A–123.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2296, Pub. L. 87–195, pt. I, § 499, as added Pub. L. 102–391, title V, § 594(a), Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1692, authorized reduction of certain debts owed to the United States, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–549, title VI, § 602(b), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3669.

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

For delegation of functions of President under this section, see Ex. Ord. No. 12163, Sept. 29, 1979, 44 F.R. 56673, as amended, set out as a note under section 2381 of this title.