[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
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[S. 682 Reported in Senate (RS)]

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                                                        Calendar No. 48
118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 682

  To provide for the treatment of the Association of Southeast Asian 
 Nations (ASEAN) as an international organization for purposes of the 
  International Organizations Immunities Act, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 7, 2023

 Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Risch, Ms. Duckworth, and Mr. Romney) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                     Committee on Foreign Relations

                              May 4, 2023

              Reported by Mr. Menendez, with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the treatment of the Association of Southeast Asian 
 Nations (ASEAN) as an international organization for purposes of the 
  International Organizations Immunities Act, and for other purposes.

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

<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``Providing Appropriate 
Recognition and Treatment Needed to Enhance Relations with ASEAN Act'' 
or the ``PARTNER with ASEAN Act''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY ON DEEPENING COOPERATION WITH 
              ASEAN.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    It is the policy of the United States--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) to reaffirm the United States-ASEAN 
        Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, established in 2022 
        following 45 years of Dialogue Partnership;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) to enhance United States-ASEAN cooperation in 
        support of an open, transparent, resilient, inclusive and 
        rules-based regional architecture in the Indo-
        Pacific;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) to support regular, high-level United States 
        official engagement with ASEAN, including the participation in 
        the annual ASEAN Summit held each year;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) to enhance cooperation with ASEAN member 
        states as well as with the institution of ASEAN and the ASEAN 
        Secretariat, including through the United States Mission to 
        ASEAN, led by the United States Ambassador to ASEAN; 
        and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) to welcome the decision in-principle by ASEAN 
        to admit Timor-Leste to be ASEAN's 11th member state and to 
        encourage United States support to Timor-Leste in its capacity 
        as an official ASEAN observer.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ASEAN 
              DELEGATION TO THE UNITED STATES.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    It is the sense of Congress that it is in the United 
States interest to encourage the establishment, at the earliest 
opportunity, of an ASEAN delegation to the United States, to enhance 
cooperation between ASEAN and the United States at all 
levels.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 4. EXTENSION OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES TO THE ASSOCIATION 
              OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    The provisions of the International Organizations 
Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 et seq.) may be extended to the 
Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the same manner, to the same 
extent, and subject to the same conditions as such provisions may be 
extended to a public international organization in which the United 
States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of 
any Act of Congress authorizing such participation or making an 
appropriation for such participation.</DELETED>

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Providing Appropriate Recognition 
and Treatment Needed to Enhance Relations with ASEAN Act'' or the 
``PARTNER with ASEAN Act''.

SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY ON DEEPENING COOPERATION WITH ASEAN.

    It is the policy of the United States--
            (1) to reaffirm the United States-ASEAN Comprehensive 
        Strategic Partnership, established in 2022 following 45 years 
        of Dialogue Partnership;
            (2) to enhance United States-ASEAN cooperation in support 
        of an open, transparent, resilient, inclusive and rules-based 
        regional architecture in the Indo-Pacific;
            (3) to support regular, high-level United States official 
        engagement with ASEAN, including the participation in the 
        annual ASEAN Summit held each year;
            (4) to enhance cooperation with ASEAN member states, as 
        appropriate, as well as with the institution of ASEAN and the 
        ASEAN Secretariat, including through the United States Mission 
        to ASEAN, led by the United States Ambassador to ASEAN; and
            (5) to welcome the decision in-principle by ASEAN to admit 
        Timor-Leste to be ASEAN's 11th member state and to encourage 
        United States support to Timor-Leste in its capacity as an 
        official ASEAN observer.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ASEAN DELEGATION 
              TO THE UNITED STATES.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) it is in the United States interest to encourage the 
        establishment, at the earliest opportunity, of an ASEAN 
        delegation to the United States, to enhance cooperation between 
        ASEAN and the United States at all levels; and
            (2) the establishment of an ASEAN center in the United 
        States would support United States economic and cultural 
        engagement with Southeast Asia.

SEC. 4. EXTENSION OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES TO THE ASSOCIATION OF 
              SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS.

    The provisions of the International Organizations Immunities Act 
(22 U.S.C. 288 et seq.) may be extended to the Association of Southeast 
Asian Nations in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to 
the same conditions as such provisions may be extended to a public 
international organization in which the United States participates 
pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress 
authorizing such participation or making an appropriation for such 
participation.
                                                        Calendar No. 48

118th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                 S. 682

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

  To provide for the treatment of the Association of Southeast Asian 
 Nations (ASEAN) as an international organization for purposes of the 
  International Organizations Immunities Act, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                              May 4, 2023

                       Reported with an amendment