---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 287s"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "287s"
heading: "Amendments to constitution of Organization involving new obligations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/287s"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XVII — United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization"
---

# §287s. Amendments to constitution of Organization involving new obligations


Unless Congress by law authorizes such action, neither the President nor any person or agency shall on behalf of the United States approve any amendment under article XIII of the constitution of the Organization involving any new obligation for the United States.


## Source credit

(July 30, 1946, ch. 700, § 7, 60 Stat. 714.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Article XIII of the constitution of the Organization, referred to in text, is article XIII of the constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, which is set out as a note under section 287m of this title.