---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 8261"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "8261"
heading: "The United Nations Democracy Fund"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/8261"
units:
  - "Chapter 89 — Advancing Democratic Values"
  - "Subchapter VI — Funding for Promotion of Democracy"
---

# §8261. The United Nations Democracy Fund

- (a) **Sense of Congress—** It is the sense of Congress that the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) should work with other countries to enhance the goals and work of the United Nations Democracy [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9), an essential tool to promote democracy, and in particular support civil society in [foreign countries](/usc/22/2321c.md?p=2) in their efforts to help consolidate democracy and bring about transformational change.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated $14,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 and 2009 to the [Secretary](/usc/22/8203.md?p=7) for a [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) contribution to the United Nations Democracy [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–53, title XXI, § 2161, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 536.)