---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2722"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2722"
heading: "International meetings"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2722"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Department of State"
---

# §2722. International meetings

- (a) **Authority to pay expenses—** If the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) Government hosts an international meeting or conference in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), the Secretary of State is authorized to pay all reasonable expenses of such meeting or conference. Such expenses may include rental of quarters (by contract or otherwise) and personal services.
- (b) **Retention of reimbursements—** To the extent provided in an appropriation Act, transfers of [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) or other reimbursements for payments under [subsection (a)](#a) are authorized to be retained and credited to the appropriate appropriation account of the Department of State which is available.

## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title I, § 50, as added Pub. L. 102–138, title I, § 119, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 658.)