---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 286x"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "286x"
heading: "Assistance to private sector of El Salvador, Nicaragua, and other nations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/286x"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XV — International Monetary Fund and Bank for Reconstruction and Development"
---

# §286x. Assistance to private sector of El Salvador, Nicaragua, and other nations


It is the sense of the Congress that in providing assistance through loans or other means to any nation, in particular El Salvador and Nicaragua, the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) and the Bank should encourage [programs](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6) which assist the private sector to create an environment which will stabilize the economy of the nation; and that the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) representatives to the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) and the Bank shall promote the use of assistance by the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) and the Bank to encourage such [programs](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6).


## Source credit

(July 31, 1945, ch. 339, § 38, as added Pub. L. 96–389, § 8, Oct. 7, 1980, 94 Stat. 1554.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 7, 1980, see section 12 of Pub. L. 96–389, set out as a note under section 286s of this title.