---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 279d"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "279d"
heading: "Limitation on power of Conference to impose new obligations on United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/279d"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter VI — United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization"
---

# §279d. Limitation on power of Conference to impose new obligations on United States


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.)