[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 6 (Tuesday, February 1, 1994)]
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                        DOLE AMENDMENT NO. 1348

  Mr. HELMS (for Mr. Dole) proposed an amendment to the bill S. 1281, 
supra; as follows:

       On page 82, after line 23, insert the following new 
     section:

     SEC. 170B. LIMITATIONS ON UNITED STATES FUNDING OF UNITED 
                   NATIONS PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES.

       (a) It is the sense of the Senate that beginning October 1, 
     1995, funds made available to the Department of Defense 
     (including funds for ``Operation and Maintenance'') shall be 
     available for--
       (1) United States assessed or voluntary contributions for 
     United Nations peacekeeping activities, or
       (2) the incremental costs associated with the participation 
     of United States Armed Forces in United Nations peacekeeping 
     activities,

     only to the extent that the Congress has authorized, 
     appropriate or otherwise approved funds for such purposes.
       (b) Assessed Contribution for United Nations Peacekeeping 
     Activities.--
       (1) Reassessment of contribution percentages.--The 
     Permanent Representative should make every effort to ensure 
     that the United Nations completes an overall review and 
     reassessment of each nation's assessed contributions for 
     United Nations peacekeeping activities. As part of the 
     overall review and assessment, the Permanent Representative 
     should make every effort to advance the concept that host 
     governments and other governments in the region where a 
     United Nations peacekeeping activity is carried out should 
     bear a greater burden of its financial cost.
       (2) United states contributions.--(A) The Permanent 
     Representative should make every effort to obtain agreement 
     by the United Nations to a United States assessed 
     contribution for United Nations peacekeeping activities that 
     is no greater a percentage of such contributions by all 
     countries than the United States percentage share of assessed 
     contributions for other United Nations activities.
       (B) The Congress declares that, effective for fiscal year 
     1996, it does not intend to make available funds for payment 
     of United States assessed or voluntary contributions for 
     United Nations peacekeeping activities that exceed 25 percent 
     of the total amount of the assessed and voluntary 
     contributions of all countries for such activities unless, 
     after the date of enactment of this Act, the Congress enacts 
     a statute specifically authorizing a greater percentage 
     contribution.
       (C) The Permanent Representative shall inform the Secretary 
     General of the congressional intent expressed in paragraph 
     (2).
       (c) United States Contributions to United Nations 
     Peacekeeping Activities.--Section 4 of the United Nations 
     Participation Act of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287b) is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``The President''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(b)(1) The President shall, at the time of submission of 
     his annual budget request to the Congress, submit a report to 
     the Congress on the anticipated budget for the fiscal year 
     for United States participation in United Nations 
     peacekeeping activities.
       ``(2) The report required by paragraph (1) shall state--
       ``(A) the aggregate amount of funds available to the United 
     Nations for that fiscal year, including assessed and 
     voluntary contributions, which may be made available for 
     United Nations peacekeeping activities; and
       ``(B) the aggregate amount of funds (from all accounts) and 
     the aggregate costs of in-kind contributions that the United 
     States proposes to make available to the United Nations for 
     that fiscal year for United Nations peacekeeping activities.
       ``(3) The President shall include in his budget submission 
     for fiscal year 1996 a projection of all United States costs 
     for United Nations peacekeeping activities during each of 
     fiscal years 1996, 1997, and 1998, including costs of in-kind 
     contributions and assessed and voluntary contributions.''.
       (d) Definitions.--
       (1) Amendment.--The United Nations Participation Act of 
     1945 (22 U.S.C. 287 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new section:
       ``Sec. 10. For purposes of this Act--
       ``(1) the term `appropriate congressional committees' means 
     the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed 
     Services, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on 
     Armed Services, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
     House of Representatives;
       ``(2) the term `Permanent Representative' means the 
     Permanent Representative of the United States to the United 
     Nations appointed by the President pursuant to section 2 of 
     this Act.

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