police, and equipment to these missions, not being 
adequately reimbursed for their contributions and 
shouldering an increasing financial burden. 
(8) The People’s Republic of China is now the 
second largest financial contributor to UN peace-
keeping, having gone from an assessment rate of 
just 3 percent in 2008 to more than 15 percent in 
2021, and is the ninth largest troop-contributor to 
UN missions, providing more personnel than the 
other four permanent members of the Security 
Council combined. 
(9) The People’s Republic of China has used 
this expanded influence to argue against human 
rights, civilian protection, and gender-based violence 
personnel within UN peacekeeping operations, in 
part using United States funding shortfalls as a pre-
text to downsize peacekeeping missions. 
(10) Prior to fiscal year 2017, when the United 
States was paying its peacekeeping dues at the full 
assessed rate, the United States and the UN worked 
together to institute a number of cost-saving and ef-
ficiency reforms, including reducing the cost per 
peacekeeper by 18 percent, reducing the number of 
support staff, and shortening the timeline between 
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when a mission is mandated and when personnel, 
equipment, and services are fully deployed. 
(11) Beginning in 2015 and with the support of 
the United States, the UN strengthened measures to 
combat sexual abuse and exploitation by peace-
keepers, including strict timelines for completing in-
vestigations; immediate response teams inside peace-
keeping missions to handle allegations; suspending 
payments to countries whose troops face credible al-
legations of misconduct; repatriation of units en-
gaged in systematic abuse; establishing an online 
database to track allegations and investigations; ap-
pointing the first Special Coordinator on Improving 
the United Nations Response to Sexual Exploitation 
and Abuse and the first Victims’ Rights Advocate; 
and establishing a trust fund to support and assist 
victims. 
(12) Improving U.S. financial standing at the 
UN would allow the U.S. to more effectively advo-
cate for a range of reform efforts, including sup-
porting strategies that have been particularly effec-
tive in reducing sexual and gender-based violence 
where peacekeepers operate, while also continuing to 
strengthen measures to end instances of sexual ex-
ploitation and abuse in UN peacekeeping operations. 
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(13) In 2021, the top positions at nine UN spe-
cialized agencies, funds, and programs will be de-
cided, and the United States will be better posi-
tioned to argue for its own preferred candidates at 
UN entities if it is in good financial standing at the 
UN. 
(14) In 2018, during the triennial scales of as-
sessment rate negotiations, the United States was 
unable to deliver significant changes in rates due in 
part to outstanding arrears. 
(15) In 2021, the scale of assessments negotia-
tions will occur again and a demonstrated willing-
ness to pay United States assessments in full will 
play an important role in garnering support from 
other UN member states. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY CONCERNING UNITED 
STATES ENGAGEMENT REGARDING UNITED 
NATIONS PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—It is the policy of the United 
States that the Permanent Representative of the United 
States to the United Nations— 
(1) support the development and implementa-
tion of standard performance assessment systems 
and investigative measures to identify exemplary 
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performance and address mission-specific and sys-
tem-wide weaknesses; 
(2) support the full implementation of a man-
agement reform agenda that decentralizes decision- 
making authority, simplifies and streamlines policy 
and processes, and strengthens accountability and 
transparency for managing United Nations offices 
and functions; 
(3) advocate for the development of a common 
political strategy in-country among relevant actors, 
including regional organizations, Member States, 
international financial institutions, and United Na-
tions agencies, funds, and programs; 
(4) advocate for robust engagement with host 
countries and local communities, including pushing 
for resources to be directed to community-led peace 
initiatives; 
(5) support efforts to deploy more mobile, 
adaptable, and agile forces for more effective peace-
keeping operations; 
(6) support the development of a system-wide 
strategy on sustainable peacekeeping transitions that 
ensure planning and decision-making is based on 
measurable benchmarks, including ensuring the pro-
tection of civilians; 
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(7) lead and advocate for efforts to promote 
and protect internationally recognized human rights 
standards regarding United Nations peacekeeping 
operations, including the robust funding and support 
of human rights positions; 
(8) advocate for efforts to develop a more com-
prehensive plan for accountability and justice, par-
ticularly relating to tracking misconduct and inclu-
sion of survivors in decision-making, for peace-
keepers and other United Nations staff involved in 
sexual exploitation, abuse, or other violations of 
human rights that contravene United Nations and 
United States rules, regulations, or values; and 
(9) engage in dialogue with Member States to 
secure a more favorable modification of United Na-
tions scales of assessments of the peacekeeping 
budget that works to diversify the funding base and 
create a sustainable funding plan. 
(b) ADVOCACY OF PEACEKEEPING REFORMS AT THE 
UNITED NATIONS.—The Secretary of State shall instruct 
the Permanent Representative of the United States to the 
United Nations to use the voice, vote, and influence of the 
United States at the United Nations to accomplish the 
policy specified in subsection (a), consistent with the na-
tional security interests of the United States. 
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SEC. 4. REPEAL OF THE 25 PERCENT CAP ON UNITED 
STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNITED NA-
TIONS PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section 404 of 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 
1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103–236; 22 U.S.C. 287e 
note; relating to a limitation on United States contribu-
tions to United Nations peacekeeping operations) is re-
pealed. 
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 
Section 404 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 is amended by striking ‘‘(a) 
REASSESSMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS PERCENTAGES.—’’. 
SEC. 
5. 
REPORTS 
ON 
UNITED 
STATES 
EFFORTS 
TO 
ACHIEVE UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING 
REFORM. 
Section 4 of the United Nations Participation Act of 
1945 (22 U.S.C. 287b) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) by striking subparagraph (B); and 
(ii) redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
subparagraph (B); 
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and 
(5) as paragraphs (5) and (6), respectively; 
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(C) by inserting after paragraph (3) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) UNITED
NATIONS
PEACEKEEPING
RE-
FORM.—A description of the status of United States 
efforts in the United Nations to ensure the United 
Nations— 
‘‘(A) develops and implements standard 
peacekeeping operation performance assessment 
systems and investigative measures to identify 
exemplary performance and address operation- 
specific and system-wide weaknesses; 
‘‘(B) fully implements a management re-
form agenda that decentralizes decision-making 
authority, simplifies and streamlines policy and 
processes, and strengthens accountability and 
transparency for managing United Nations of-
fices and functions; 
‘‘(C) develops for each peacekeeping oper-
ation a common political strategy in-country 
among relevant actors, including regional orga-
nizations, Member States, international finan-
cial institutions, and United Nations agencies, 
funds, and programs; 
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‘‘(D) fully engages with host countries and 
local communities, including directing resources 
to community-led peace initiatives; 
‘‘(E) deploys more mobile, adaptable, and 
agile forces for more effective peacekeeping op-
erations; 
‘‘(F) develops a system-wide strategy on 
sustainable peacekeeping transitions that en-
sure planning and decision-making is based on 
measurable benchmarks, including ensuring the 
protection of civilians; 
‘‘(G) implements a system-wide strategy to 
protect internationally recognized human rights 
standards within United Nations peacekeeping 
operations, including robust funding and sup-
port of human rights positions within each 
peacekeeping operation; 
‘‘(H) develops a more comprehensive plan 
for accountability and justice, particularly relat-
ing to tracking misconduct and inclusion of sur-
vivors in decision-making, for peacekeepers and 
other United Nations staff involved in sexual 
exploitation, abuse, or other violations of 
human rights that contravene United Nations 
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and United States rules, regulations, or values; 
and 
‘‘(I) modifies the United Nations scales of 
assessments of the peacekeeping budget to di-
versify the funding base and create a sustain-
able funding plan.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d)(5), by striking subpara-
graph (B). 
SEC. 6. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) STRENGTHENING CONFLICT PREVENTION
IN 
UNITED NATIONS MISSIONS.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report analyzing the ways in which conflict 
prevention aspects of United Nations missions may be 
strengthened. Such report shall include— 
(1) an analysis of the performance of existing 
early warning and rapid response systems and rec-
ommendations for the improvement of such systems; 
(2) an analysis on the performance of the civil-
ian components of United Nations special political 
missions and peacekeeping operations and rec-
ommendations for strengthening such components; 
(3) recommendations on how other United Na-
tions 
entities, 
including 
the 
United 
Nations 
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Peacebuilding Fund, special political missions, and 
other agencies, funds, and programs could be better 
coordinated in a joint strategy; and 
(4) an assessment of the costs and benefits of 
the Department of State and the United States 
Agency for International Development sharing risk 
analysis data with select multilateral organizations, 
under specific circumstances, to better promote con-
flict prevention before peacekeeping engagement is 
needed. 
(b) ENSURING
CONSIDERATIONS
FOR
MISSION 
TRANSITIONS ARE BASED ON COMPREHENSIVE ASSESS-
MENTS OF CONFLICT DYNAMICS AND RISKS TO CIVIL-
IANS.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report that 
analyzes the observed challenges, costs, and benefits of 
transitioning United Nations peacekeeping operations to 
host-country security forces, including— 
(1) case studies of communities that maintained 
peace and stabilization gains compared with commu-
nities that experienced a resurgence in instability, vi-
olence, or conflict at least five years after such a 
transition; 
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