---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 290g–19"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "290g–19"
heading: "Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/290g-19"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XXII — African Development Fund"
---

# §290g–19. Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury is authorized to contribute, on behalf of the United States, not more than $26,000,000 to the African Development Fund for the purpose of funding debt relief under the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative in the period governed by the eleventh replenishment of resources of the African Development Fund, subject to obtaining the necessary appropriations and without prejudice to any funding arrangements in existence on June 24, 2009.
- (b) In order to pay for the United States contribution provided for in [subsection (a)](#a), there are authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, not more than $26,000,000 for payment by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–302, title II, § 220, as added Pub. L. 111–32, title XI, § 1109(b), June 24, 2009, 123 Stat. 1901.)