---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1645"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1645"
heading: "Congressional declaration of purpose"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1645"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Settlement of International Claims"
  - "Subchapter VII — Claims Against Vietnam"
---

# §1645. Congressional declaration of purpose


It is the purpose of this subchapter to provide for the determination of the validity and amounts of outstanding claims against [Vietnam](/usc/22/1645a.md?p=4) which arose out of the nationalization, expropriation, or other taking of (or special measures directed against) [property](/usc/22/1645a.md?p=3) of nationals of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1). This subchapter shall not be construed as authorizing or as any intention to authorize an appropriation by the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) for the purpose of paying such claims.


## Source credit

(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title VII, § 701, as added Pub. L. 96–606, Dec. 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 3534.)