[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3503 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3503

    To establish limitations on the use of funds for international 
                        peacekeeping activities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 10, 1993

  Ms. Snowe introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To establish limitations on the use of funds for international 
                        peacekeeping activities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``International Peacekeeping Policy 
Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING 
              ACTIVITIES.

    (a) Limitation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds appropriated to the Department of State Contributions for 
International Peacekeeping Account or any other funds appropriated to 
the Department of State under any law to pay for assessed or voluntary 
contributions to United Nations peacekeeping activities shall be 
available for obligation or expenditure to the United Nations to 
establish, expand in size, or modify in mission a United Nations 
peacekeeping operation unless with respect to such peacekeeping 
operation the President submits a certification to the Congress under 
subsection (b).
    (b) Certification to Congress.--The President shall determine and 
certify to the Congress that the United Nations peacekeeping operation 
meets the following policy guidelines:
            (1) The operation involves an international conflict in 
        which hostilities have ceased and all significant parties to 
        the conflict agree to the imposition of United Nations 
        peacekeeping forces for the purpose of seeking an enduring 
        solution to the conflict.
            (2) Not less than 15 days before approval of the 
        peacekeeping operation by the United Nations Security Council, 
        the Congress was notified of the intent to support the 
        establishment of the peacekeeping operation under the 
        reprogramming procedures of section 34 of the State Department 
        Basic Authorities Act.
            (3) With respect to any assessed contribution to a United 
        Nations peacekeeping activity, the percentage of the United 
        States assessed share for the total cost of the operation is no 
        greater than the percentage assessment for the regular United 
        Nations budget.
            (4) No United States intelligence information involving 
        sensitive sources and methods of intelligence gathering will be 
        provided to the United Nations to support the operation.
            (5) With respect to the participation in the operation of 
        units of the United States Armed Forces trained to carry out 
        direct combat missions--
                    (A) the operation directly advances United States 
                national security interests,
                    (B) the participation of such units is critical to 
                the success of the operation,
                    (C) such units will be under the operational 
                command and control of the United States Armed Forces, 
                and
                    (D) any member of the United States Armed Forces 
                participating in the operation would have access to the 
                full protection of the Geneva Convention Relative to 
                the Treatment of Prisoners of War (signed at Geneva, 12 
                August 1949) if captured and held by combatants or 
                other parties to the conflict.
    (c) Direct Combat Defined.--For the purpose of subsection (b), the 
term ``direct combat'' means engaging an enemy or hostile force with 
individual or crew-served weapons while being exposed to direct enemy 
fire, a high probability of direct physical contact with the enemy or 
hostile force, and a substantial risk of capture.

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