[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 696 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 696

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 5, 1997

   Ms. Snowe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
    To establish limitations on the use of funds for United Nations 
                        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 Reform 
Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2 LIMITATION ON THE USE OF FUNDS FOR UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING 
              ACTIVITIES.

    (a) Limitation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds made available to the Department of State under the 
account ``Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities'' or 
any other funds made available 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 operations unless, with 
respect to such peacekeeping operation--
            (1) the President submits a certification to the 
        appropriate congressional committees under subsection (c); and
            (2) except as provided in paragraph (b), the President has 
        notified the appropriate congressional committees of the intent 
        to support the establishment of the peacekeeping operation at 
        least 15 days before any vote in the Security Council to 
        establish, expand, or modify such operation. The notification 
        shall include the following:
                    (A) A cost assessment of such action (including the 
                total estimated cost and the United States share of 
                such cost).
                    (B) Identification of the source of funding for the 
                United States share of the costs of the action (whether 
                in an annual budget request, reprogramming 
                notification, a rescission of funds, a budget 
                amendment, or a supplemental budget request.
    (b) Presidential Determination of Existence of Emergency.--If the 
President determines that an emergency exists which prevented 
submission of the 15-day advance notification specified in paragraph 
(a) and that the proposed action is in the direct national security 
interests of the United States, the notification described in paragraph 
(a) shall be provided in a timely manner but no later than 48 hours 
after the vote by the Security Council.
    (c) Certification to Congress.--The President shall determine and 
certify to the Congress that the United Nations Peacekeeping operation 
described under paragraph (a) meets the following requirements:
            (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) With respect to any assessed contribution to such 
        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 of the United 
        States assessed share for the regular United Nations budget.
            (3) In the event that the provision of United States 
        intelligence information involving sensitive sources and 
        methods on intelligence gathering is planned to be provided to 
        the United Nations to support the operation, adequate measures 
        have been taken by the United Nations to protect such 
        information.
            (4) 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, 
                August 12, 1949) if captured and held by combatants or 
                other parties to the conflict.
    (d) Definitions.--As used in this section:
            (1) the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means 
        the Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees of the 
        Senate and the International Relations and Appropriations 
        Committees of the House of Representatives;
            (2) the term ``adequate measures'' refers to the 
        implementation of procedures for protecting intelligence 
        sources and methods (including protection from release to 
        nations and foreign nationals that are otherwise not eligible 
        to receive such information) no less stringent than procedures 
        maintained by nations with which the United States regularly 
        shares similar types of intelligence information, as determined 
        by the Director of Central Intelligence upon consultation with 
        the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense; and
            (3) 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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