stated that ‘‘Moving to voluntary funding would end 
the UN practice of charging member states for the 
expenses of the UN and its activities. Member states 
would instead determine for themselves how much to 
provide to the UN and, importantly, the specific 
tasks and activities that those contributions would 
support. The shift toward a voluntary payment sys-
tem would impose a stronger market incentive for 
UN programs and activities to meet their goals and 
justify continued funding.’’. 
SEC. 102. APPORTIONMENT OF THE UNITED NATIONS REG-
ULAR BUDGET ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS. 
(a) UNITED STATES POLICY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—It is the policy of the United 
States to seek to shift the funding mechanism for 
the regular budget of the United Nations from an 
assessed to a voluntary basis. 
(2) ACTION AT UNITED NATIONS.—The Presi-
dent shall direct the United States Permanent Rep-
resentative to the United Nations to use the voice, 
vote, and influence of the United States at the 
United Nations to shift the funding mechanism for 
the regular budget of the United Nations to a vol-
untary basis, and to make it a priority to build sup-
port for such a transformational change among 
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Member States, particularly key United Nations do-
nors. 
(b) CERTIFICATION
OF
PREDOMINANTLY
VOL-
UNTARY UN REGULAR BUDGET FINDING.—A certifi-
cation described in this section is a certification by the 
Secretary of State to the Appropriate Congressional Com-
mittees that at least 80 percent of the total regular budget 
(not including extra-budgetary contributions) of the 
United Nations is apportioned on a voluntary basis. Each 
such certification shall be effective for a period of not more 
than 1 year, and shall be promptly revoked by the Sec-
retary, with notice to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees, if the underlying circumstances change so as not 
to warrant such certification. 
(c) WITHHOLDING OF NONVOLUNTARY CONTRIBU-
TIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Beginning 2 years after the 
effective date of this Act and notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, no funds may be obligated or 
expended for a United States assessed contribution 
to the regular budget of the United Nations in an 
amount greater than 50 percent of the United 
States share of assessed contributions for the reg-
ular budget of the United Nations unless there is in 
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effect a certification by the Secretary, as described 
in subsection (b). 
(2) ALLOWANCE.—For a period of 1 year after 
appropriation, funds appropriated for use as a 
United States contribution to the regular budget of 
the United Nations but withheld from obligation and 
expenditure pursuant to paragraph (1) may be obli-
gated and expended for that purpose upon the cer-
tification described in subsection (b). After 1 year, 
in the absence of such certification, those funds shall 
revert to the United States Treasury. 
SEC. 103. BUDGET JUSTIFICATION FOR UNITED STATES 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE REGULAR BUDGET 
OF THE UNITED NATIONS. 
(a) DETAILED ITEMIZATION.—The annual congres-
sional budget justification shall include a detailed itemized 
request in support of the contribution of the United States 
to the regular budget of the United Nations. 
(b) CONTENTS
OF DETAILED ITEMIZATION.—The 
detailed itemization required under subsection (a) shall— 
(1) contain information relating to the amounts 
requested in support of each of the various sections 
and titles of the regular budget of the United Na-
tions; and 
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(2) compare the amounts requested for the cur-
rent year with the actual or estimated amounts con-
tributed by the United States in previous fiscal years 
for the same sections and titles. 
(c) ADJUSTMENTS
AND
NOTIFICATION.—If the 
United Nations proposes an adjustment to its regular as-
sessed budget, the Secretary of State shall, at the time 
such adjustment is presented to the Advisory Committee 
on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), 
notify and consult with the appropriate congressional com-
mittees. 
SEC. 104. REPORT ON UNITED NATIONS REFORM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, 
the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a report on United Nations reform. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall describe— 
(1) progress toward the goal of shifting the 
funding for the United Nations Regular Budget to 
a voluntary basis as identified in section 102, and a 
detailed description of efforts and activities by 
United States diplomats and officials toward that 
end; 
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(2) progress toward each of the policy goals 
identified in the prior sections of this title, and a de-
tailed, goal-specific description of efforts and activi-
ties by United States diplomats and officials toward 
those ends; 
(3) the status of the implementation of manage-
ment reforms within the United Nations and its spe-
cialized agencies; 
(4) the number of outputs, reports, or other 
mandates generated by General Assembly resolutions 
that have been eliminated; 
(5) the progress of the General Assembly to 
modernize and streamline the committee structure 
and its specific recommendations on oversight and 
committee outputs, consistent with the March 2005 
report of the Secretary General entitled ‘‘In larger 
freedom: towards development, security and human 
rights for all’’; 
(6) the status of the review by the General As-
sembly of all mandates older than 5 years and how 
resources have been redirected to new challenges, 
consistent with such March 2005 report of the Sec-
retary General; 
(7) the continued utility and relevance of the 
Economic and Financial Committee and the Social, 
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Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee, in light of 
the duplicative agendas of those committees and the 
Economic and Social Council; and 
(8) whether the United Nations or any of its 
specialized agencies has contracted with any party 
included on the Lists of Parties Excluded from Fed-
eral Procurement and Nonprocurement Programs. 
TITLE II—TRANSPARENCY AND 
ACCOUNTABILITY 
FOR 
UNITED STATES CONTRIBU-
TIONS TO THE UNITED NA-
TIONS 
SEC. 201. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) As underscored by continuing revelations of 
waste, fraud, and abuse, oversight and account-
ability mechanisms within the United Nations sys-
tem remain significantly deficient, despite decades of 
reform attempts, including those initiated by Secre-
taries General of the United Nations. 
(2) Notwithstanding the personal intentions of 
any Secretary General of the United Nations to pro-
mote institutional transparency and accountability 
within the United Nations System, the Secretary 
General lacks the power to impose far reaching man-
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agement reforms without the concurrence of the 
General Assembly. 
(3) Groupings of Member States whose voting 
power in the General Assembly significantly out-
paces their proportional contributions to the United 
Nations system have repeatedly and successfully de-
feated, delayed, and diluted various reform proposals 
that would have enabled more detailed oversight and 
scrutiny of United Nations system operations and 
expenditures. 
(4) To an unacceptable degree, major donor 
states, including the United States, lack access to 
reasonably detailed, reliable information that would 
allow them to determine how their contributions 
have been spent by various United Nations system 
entities, further contributing to the lack of account-
ability within the United Nations system. 
SEC. 202. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) TRANSPARENCY CERTIFICATION.—The term 
‘‘Transparency Certification’’ means an annual, 
written affirmation by the head or authorized des-
ignee of a United Nations Entity, provided to the 
Department of State, that the Entity will cooperate 
with the Department of State and Congress, includ-
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ing by providing the Department of State and Con-
gress with full, complete, and unfettered access to 
Oversight Information as defined in this title. 
(2) 
OVERSIGHT
INFORMATION.—The 
term 
‘‘Oversight Information’’ includes— 
(A) internally and externally commissioned 
audits, investigatory reports, program reviews, 
performance reports, and evaluations; 
(B) financial statements, records, and bill-
ing systems; 
(C) program budgets and program budget 
implications, including revised estimates and re-
ports produced by or provided to the Secretary 
General and the Secretary General’s agents on 
budget related matters; 
(D) operational plans, budgets, and budg-
etary analyses for peacekeeping operations; 
(E) analyses and reports regarding the 
scale of assessments; 
(F) databases and other data systems con-
taining financial or programmatic information; 
(G) documents or other records alleging or 
involving improper use of resources, mis-
conduct, mismanagement, or other violations of 
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rules and regulations applicable to the United 
Nations Entity; and 
(H) other documentation relevant to the 
oversight work of Congress with respect to 
United States contributions to the United Na-
tions system. 
(3) 
ACCOUNTABILITY
CERTIFICATION.—The 
term ‘‘Accountability Certification’’ means an an-
nual, written affirmation by the head or authorized 
designee of a United Nations Entity provided to the 
Secretary of State that the Entity— 
(A) provides the public with full, complete, 
and unfettered access to all relevant docu-
mentation relating to operations and activities, 
including budget and procurement activities; 
(B) implements and upholds policies and 
procedures to protect whistleblowers; 
(C) implements and upholds policies and 
procedures to require the filing of individual an-
nual financial disclosure forms by each of its 
employees at the P–5 level and above and to re-
quire that such forms be made available to the 
Office of Internal Oversight Services, to Mem-
ber States, and to the public; 
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(D) has established an effective ethics of-
fice; 
(E) has established a fully independent, 
autonomous, and effective internal oversight 
body; 
(F) has adopted and implemented, and is 
in full compliance with, International Public 
Sector Accounting Standards; and 
(G) has established a cap on its adminis-
trative overhead costs. 
SEC. 203. OVERSIGHT OF UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS 
TO THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM. 
(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to en-
hance oversight of United States contributions to the 
United Nations System and the use of those contributions 
by United Nations Entities, in an effort to eliminate and 
deter waste, fraud, and abuse in the use of those contribu-
tions, and thereby to contribute to the development of 
greater transparency, accountability, and internal controls 
throughout the United Nations System. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Department of State 
shall collect and maintain current records regarding 
Transparency Certifications and Accountability Cer-
tifications by all United Nations Entities that re-
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ceive United States contributions and submit that 
information for inclusion in the report required 
under section 207. 
(2) NOTIFICATION.—The Department of State 
shall keep the appropriate congressional committees 
fully and promptly informed of how United Nations 
Entities are spending United States contributions. 
(3) REFERRALS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State 
shall promptly report to the Attorney General 
and to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees when the Secretary of State has reasonable 
grounds to believe a Federal criminal law has 
been violated by a United Nations Entity or one 
of its employees, contractors, or representatives. 
(B) NOTIFICATION.—The Secretary of 
State shall promptly report, when appropriate, 
to the appropriate congressional committees, 
and to the Secretary General or to the head of 
the appropriate United Nations Entity, cases in 
which the Secretary of State reasonably believes 
that mismanagement, misfeasance, or malfea-
sance is likely to have taken place within a 
United Nations Entity and disciplinary pro-
ceedings are likely justified. 
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(4) CONFIRMATION
OF
TRANSPARENCY
BY 
UNITED NATIONS ENTITIES.— 
(A) PROMPT NOTICE BY DEPARTMENT OF 
STATE.—Whenever information or assistance 
requested from a United Nations Entity by the 
Department of State pursuant to a Trans-
parency Certification is, in the opinion of the 
Secretary of State, unreasonably refused or not 
provided in a timely manner, the Secretary of 
State shall notify the appropriate congressional 
committees, the head of that particular United 
Nations Entity, and the Secretary General of 
the circumstances in writing, without delay. 
(B) NOTICE
OF
COMPLIANCE.—If and 
when the information or assistance being 
sought by the Department of State in connec-
tion with a notification pursuant to subpara-
graph (A) is provided to the satisfaction of the 
Secretary of State, the Secretary of State shall 
so notify in writing to the appropriate congres-
sional committees and the head of that par-
ticular United Nations Entity. 
(C) NONCOMPLIANCE.—If the information 
or assistance being sought by the Department 
of State in connection with a notification pursu-
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ant to subparagraph (A) is not provided within 
90 days of that notification, then the United 
Nations Entity that is the subject of the notifi-
cation is deemed to be noncompliant with its 
Transparency Certification. 
(D) RESTORATION
OF
COMPLIANCE.— 
After the situation has been resolved to the sat-
isfaction of the Secretary of State, the Sec-
retary of State shall promptly provide prompt, 
written notification of that fact and of the res-
toration of compliance, along with a description 
of the basis for the Secretary of State’s deci-
sion, to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees, the head of that United Nations Entity, 
the Secretary General, and any office or agency 
of the Federal Government that has provided 
that United Nations Entity with any United 
States contribution during the prior 2 years. 
(5) CONFIRMATION
OF
ACCOUNTABILITY
BY 
UNITED NATIONS ENTITIES.— 
(A) PROMPT
NOTICE
BY
SECRETARY
OF 
STATE.—Whenever a United Nations Entity 
that has provided an Accountability Certifi-
cation is, in the opinion of the Secretary of 
State, not in full compliance with any or all of 
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the provisions of that certification, the Sec-
retary of State shall notify the appropriate con-
gressional committees, the head of that par-
ticular United Nations Entity, and the Sec-
retary General of the circumstances in writing, 
without delay. 
(B) NOTICE
OF
COMPLIANCE.—If and 
when the United Nations Entity resumes full 
compliance with its Accountability Certification 
following the provision of the notification pursu-
ant to subparagraph (A), the Secretary of State 
shall so notify in writing the appropriate con-
gressional committees and the head of that 
United Nations Entity. 
(C) NONCOMPLIANCE.—If the United Na-
tions Entity named in the notification in sub-
paragraph (A) does not resume full compliance 
with its Accountability Certification to the sat-
isfaction of the Secretary of State within 90 
days of that notification, then the United Na-
tions Entity that is the subject of the notifica-
tion is deemed to be noncompliant with its Ac-
countability Certification, and the Secretary of 
State shall provide prompt, written notification 
of that fact to the appropriate congressional 
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committees, the head of that United Nations 
Entity, the Secretary General, and any office or 
agency of the Federal Government that has 
provided that United Nations Entity with any 
United States Contribution during the prior 2 
years. 
(D) RESTORATION
OF
COMPLIANCE.— 
After the situation has been resolved to the sat-
isfaction of the Secretary of State, the Sec-
retary of State shall promptly provide prompt, 
written notification of that fact and of the res-
toration of compliance, along with a description 
of the basis for the Secretary of State’s deci-
sion, to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees, the head of that United Nations Entity, 
the Secretary General, and any office or agency 
of the Federal Government that has provided 
that United Nations Entity with any United 
States contribution during the prior 2 years. 
(6) REPORTING.— 
(A) REPORTING.—In the report submitted 
by the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget to Congress pursuant to section 
207, the Secretary of State shall submit for in-
clusion a section that, among other things, in-
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cludes a list and detailed description of the cir-
cumstances surrounding any notification of 
compliance issued pursuant to paragraph (4)(C) 
or (5)(C) during the covered timeframe, and 
whether and when the Secretary has reversed 
such finding of noncompliance. 
(B) PROHIBITED DISCLOSURES.—Nothing 
in this subsection shall be construed to author-
ize the public disclosure of information that 
is— 
(i) specifically prohibited from disclo-
sure by any other provision of law; 
(ii) specifically required by Executive 
order to be protected from disclosure in 
the interest of national defense or national 
security or in the conduct of foreign af-
fairs; or 
(iii) a part of an ongoing criminal in-
vestigation. 
(C) PRIVACY
PROTECTIONS.—The Sec-
retary of State shall exempt from public disclo-
sure information received from a United Na-
tions Entity that the Secretary of State be-
lieves— 
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(i) constitutes a trade secret or privi-
leged and confidential personal financial 
information; 
(ii) constitutes confidential personal 
medical information; 
(iii) accuses a particular person of a 
crime; 
(iv) would, if publicly disclosed, con-
stitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of 
personal privacy; and 
(v) would compromise an ongoing law 
enforcement investigation or judicial trial 
in the United States. 
SEC. 204. TRANSPARENCY FOR UNITED STATES CONTRIBU-
TIONS. 
(a) 
FUNDING
PREREQUISITES.—Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, no funds made available for 
use as a United States Contribution to any United Na-
tions Entity may be obligated or expended if— 
(1) the intended United Nations Entity recipi-
ent has not provided to the Secretary of State within 
the preceding year a Transparency Certification as 
defined in section 202(1); 
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(2) the intended United Nations Entity recipi-
ent is noncompliant with its Transparency Certifi-
cation as described in section 203(b)(4)(C); 
(3) the intended United Nations Entity recipi-
ent has not provided to the Secretary of State within 
the preceding year an Accountability Certification as 
defined in section 202(3); or 
(4) the intended United Nations Entity is non-
compliant with its Accountability Certification as de-
scribed in section 203(b)(5)(C). 
(b) TREATMENT OF FUNDS WITHHELD FOR NON-
COMPLIANCE.—At the conclusion of each fiscal year, any 
funds that had been appropriated for use as a United 
States Contribution to a United Nations Entity during 
that fiscal year, but could not be obligated or expended 
because of the restrictions of subsection (a), shall be re-
turned to the United States Treasury, and are not subject 
to reprogramming for any other use. Any such funds re-
turned to the Treasury shall not be considered arrears to 
be repaid to any United Nations Entity. 
(c) PRESIDENTIAL WAIVER.—The President may 
waive the limitations of this subsection with respect to a 
particular United States Contribution to a particular 
United Nations Entity within a single fiscal year if the 
President determines that failure to do so would pose an 
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extraordinary threat to the national security of the United 
States and provides notification and explanation of that 
determination to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees. 
SEC. 205. INTEGRITY FOR UNITED STATES CONTRIBU-
TIONS. 
(a) LIMITATION.—(1) No funds made available for 
use under the heading ‘‘Contributions to International Or-
ganizations’’ may be used for any purpose other than an 
assessed United States contribution to a United Nations 
Entity or other international organization. 
(2) No funds made available for use under the head-
ing ‘‘International Organizations and Programs’’ may be 
used for any purpose other than a voluntary United States 
contribution to a United Nations Entity or other inter-
national organization. 
(3) No funds made available for use under the head-
ing ‘‘Contributions to International Peacekeeping Activi-
ties’’ may be used for any purpose other than a United 
States contribution to United Nations peacekeeping activi-
ties, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former 
Yugoslavia, or to the International Criminal Tribunal for 
Rwanda. 
(b) TREATMENT OF FUNDS WITHHELD FOR NON-
COMPLIANCE.—At the conclusion of each fiscal year, any 
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funds that had been appropriated for use as a United 
States contribution to a United Nations Entity during 
that fiscal year, but could not be obligated or expended 
because of the restrictions of subsection (a), shall be re-
turned to the United States Treasury, and are not subject 
to reprogramming for any other use. Any such funds re-
turned to the Treasury shall not be considered arrears to 
be repaid to any United Nations Entity. 
SEC. 206. REFUND OF MONIES OWED BY THE UNITED NA-
TIONS TO THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) United States taxpayer funds overpaid to 
United Nations Entities and payable back to the 
United States sometimes remain in the hands of the 
United Nations because the United States has not 
requested the return of those funds. 
(2) Such funds have been paid into, among 
other United Nations Entities, the United Nations 
Tax Equalization Fund (TEF), which was estab-
lished under the provisions of United Nations Gen-
eral Assembly Resolution 973 (1955), and which is 
used to reimburse United Nations staff members 
subject to United States income taxes for the cost 
of those taxes. 
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(3) In recent years, the TEF has taken in con-
siderably more money than it has paid out, with the 
United States apparently overpaying into the TEF 
by $52,200,000 in the 2008–2009 timeframe alone. 
(4) According to the United Nations Financial 
Report and Audited Financial Statements released 
on July 29, 2010, ‘‘As of 31 December 2009, an 
amount of $179.0 million was payable to the United 
States of America pending instructions as to its dis-
position.’’. 
(5) That balance was allowed to accrue notwith-
standing United Nations Financial Regulation 4.12, 
which states that any such surpluses ‘‘shall be cred-
ited against the assessed contributions due from that 
Member State the following year.’’. 
(6) Allowing the United Nations to regularly 
overcharge the United States and to retain those 
overpayments, or to spend them on wholly unrelated 
activities, is a disservice to American taxpayers and 
a subversion of the Congressional budget process. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the 
United States— 
(1) to annually instruct the United Nations to 
return to the United States any surplus assessed 
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contributions or other overpayments by the United 
States to any United Nations Entity; and 
(2) to use the voice and vote of the United 
States to press the United Nations to reform its 
TEF assessment procedures to reduce the repeated 
discrepancies between TEF income and expendi-
tures. 
(c) CERTIFICATION AND WITHHOLDING.—For each 
and every fiscal year subsequent to the effective date of 
this Act, until the Secretary of State submits to the appro-
priate congressional committees a certification that the 
United Nations has returned to the United States any sur-
plus assessed contributions or other overpayments by the 
United States to any United Nations Entity, the Secretary 
of State shall withhold from the regular budget of the 
United Nations an amount equal to the amount of the 
funds that the United Nations has yet to return to the 
United States. 
SEC. 207. ANNUAL REPORTS ON UNITED STATES CON-
TRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED NATIONS. 
(a) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act and annually for 
two years thereafter, the Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget shall submit to Congress a report listing 
all assessed and voluntary contributions of the United 
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States Government for the preceding fiscal year to the 
United Nations and United Nations affiliated agencies 
and related bodies. 
(b) CONTENTS.—Each report required under sub-
section (a) shall set forth, for the fiscal year covered by 
such report, the following: 
(1) The total amount of all assessed and vol-
untary contributions of the United States Govern-
ment to the United Nations and United Nations af-
filiated agencies and related bodies. 
(2) The approximate percentage of United 
States Government contributions to each United Na-
tions affiliated agency or body in such fiscal year 
when compared with all contributions to such agency 
or body from any source in such fiscal year. 
(3) For each such contribution— 
(A) the amount of such contribution; 
(B) a description of such contribution (in-
cluding whether assessed or voluntary); 
(C) the department or agency of the 
United States Government responsible for such 
contribution; 
(D) the purpose of such contribution; and 
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(E) the United Nations or United Nations 
affiliated agency or related body receiving such 
contribution. 
SEC. 208. REPORT ON UNITED NATIONS PROCUREMENT 
PRACTICES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, 
the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a report on United Nations procure-
ment reform. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The reports required under sub-
section (a) shall describe— 
(1) progress toward the goal of donor countries 
establishing a threshold number for procurement 
purposes, of which 50 percent of the procurement 
for donor programs over $1,000,000,000 shall utilize 
donor vendors; 
(2) the status of the amount and percentage of 
procurement at the United Nations through United 
States vendors; and 
(3) the status of examinations and investiga-
tions if companies on the Excluded Parties List Sys-
tem are receiving contracts through the United Na-
tions, and the values of such contracts. 
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TITLE III—UNITED STATES POL-
ICY AT THE UNITED NATIONS 
SEC. 301. ANNUAL PUBLICATION. 
The President shall direct the United States Perma-
nent Representative to the United Nations to use the 
voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 
United Nations to ensure the United Nations publishes 
annually, including on a publicly searchable internet Web 
site, a list of all United Nations subsidiary bodies and 
their functions, budgets, staff, and contributions, both vol-
untary and assessed, sorted by donor. 
SEC. 302. ANNUAL FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE. 
The President shall direct the United States Perma-
nent Representative to the United Nations to use the 
voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 
United Nations to implement a system for the required 
filing of individual annual financial disclosure forms by 
each employee of the United Nations and its specialized 
agencies, programs, and funds at the P–5 level and above, 
which shall be made available to the Office of Internal 
Oversight Services, to Member States, and to the public. 
SEC. 303. POLICY WITH RESPECT TO EXPANSION OF THE 
SECURITY COUNCIL. 
It is the policy of the United States to use the voice, 
vote, and influence of the United States at the United Na-
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tions to oppose any proposals on expansion of the Security 
Council if such expansion would— 
(1) diminish the influence of the United States 
on the Security Council; or 
(2) include veto rights for any new members of 
the Security Council. 
SEC. 304. ACCESS TO REPORTS AND AUDITS. 
The President shall direct the United States Perma-
nent Representative to the United Nations to use the 
voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 
United Nations to ensure that Member States may, upon 
request, have access to all reports and audits completed 
by the Board of External Auditors. 
SEC. 305. WAIVER OF IMMUNITY. 
The President shall direct the United States Perma-
nent Representative to the United Nations to use the 
voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 
United Nations to ensure that the Secretary General exer-
cises the right and duty of the Secretary General under 
section 20 of the Convention on the Privileges and Immu-
nities of the United Nations to waive the immunity of any 
United Nations official in any case in which such immu-
nity would impede the course of justice. In exercising such 
waiver, the Secretary General is urged to interpret the in-
terests of the United Nations as favoring the investigation 
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or prosecution of a United Nations official who is credibly 
under investigation for having committed a serious crimi-
nal offense or who is credibly charged with a serious crimi-
nal offense. 
SEC. 306. TERRORISM AND THE UNITED NATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall direct the 
United States Permanent Representative to the United 
Nations to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United 
States at the United Nations to work toward adoption by 
the General Assembly of— 
(1) a definition of terrorism that— 
(A) builds upon the recommendations of 
the December 2004 report of the High-Level 
Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change; 
(B) includes as an essential component of 
such definition any action that is intended to 
cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians 
with the purpose of intimidating a population 
or compelling a government or an international 
organization to do, or abstain from doing, any 
act; and 
(C) does not propose a legal or moral 
equivalence between an action described in sub-
paragraph (B) and measures taken by a gov-
ernment or international organization in self-de-
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fense against an action described in such sub-
paragraph; and 
(2) a comprehensive convention on terrorism 
that includes the definition described in paragraph 
(1). 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) authoritarian regimes often inaccurately 
label peaceful, pro-freedom, pro-democracy move-
ments as terrorist movements in order to undermine 
the legitimacy of those movements; and 
(2) any United Nations definition of terrorism 
should not be used to undermine a peaceful, pro- 
freedom, pro-democracy movement against authori-
tarian rule. 
SEC. 307. REPORT ON UNITED NATIONS PERSONNEL. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report— 
(1) concerning the progress of the General As-
sembly to modernize human resource practices, con-
sistent with the March 2005 report of the Secretary 
General entitled ‘‘In larger freedom: towards devel-
opment, security and human rights for all’’; and 
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(2) containing the information described in sub-
section (b). 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report shall include— 
(1) a comprehensive evaluation of human re-
sources reforms at the United Nations, including an 
evaluation of— 
(A) tenure; 
(B) performance reviews; 
(C) the promotion system; 
(D) a merit-based hiring system and en-
hanced regulations concerning termination of 
employment of employees; and 
(E) the implementation of a code of con-
duct and ethics training; 
(2) the implementation of a system of proce-
dures for filing complaints and protective measures 
for work-place harassment, including sexual harass-
ment; 
(3) policy recommendations relating to the es-
tablishment of a rotation requirement for non-
administrative positions; 
(4) policy recommendations relating to the es-
tablishment of a prohibition preventing personnel 
and officials assigned to the mission of a member 
state to the United Nations from transferring to a 
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position within the United Nations Secretariat that 
is compensated at the P–5 level and above; 
(5) policy recommendations relating to a reduc-
tion in travel allowances and attendant oversight 
with respect to accommodations and airline flights; 
and 
(6) an evaluation of the recommendations of the 
Secretary General relating to greater flexibility for 
the Secretary General in staffing decisions to accom-
modate changing priorities. 
SEC. 308. UNITED NATIONS TREATY BODIES. 
The United States shall withhold from United States 
contributions to the regular assessed budget of the United 
Nations for a biennial period amounts that are propor-
tional to the percentage of such budget that are expended 
with respect to a United Nations human rights treaty 
monitoring body or committee that was established by— 
(1) a convention (without any protocols) or an 
international covenant (without any protocols) to 
which the United States is not party; or 
(2) a convention, with a subsequent protocol, if 
the United States is a party to neither. 
SEC. 309. EQUALITY AT THE UNITED NATIONS. 
(a) DEPARTMENT
OF STATE REVIEW
AND RE-
PORT.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—To avoid duplicative efforts 
and funding with respect to Palestinian interests 
and to ensure balance in the approach to Israeli-Pal-
estinian issues, the Secretary shall, not later than 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act— 
(A) complete an audit of the functions of 
the entities listed in paragraph (2); and 
(B) submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a report containing audit 
findings and conclusions, and recommendations 
for the elimination of such duplicative entities 
and efforts. 
(2) ENTITIES.—The entities referred to in 
paragraph (1)(A) are the following: 
(A) The United Nations Division for Pales-
tinian Rights. 
(B) The Committee on the Exercise of the 
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. 
(C) The United Nations Special Coordi-
nator for the Middle East Peace Process and 
Personal Representative to the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization and the Palestinian Au-
thority. 
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(D) The NGO Network on the Question of 
Palestine. 
(E) The Special Committee to Investigate 
Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of 
the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the 
Occupied Territories. 
(F) Any other entity the Secretary deter-
mines results in duplicative efforts or funding 
or fails to ensure balance in the approach to 
Israeli-Palestinian issues. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION BY PERMANENT REPRESENTA-
TIVE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall direct 
the United States Permanent Representative to the 
United Nations to use the voice, vote, and influence 
of the United States at the United Nations to seek 
the implementation of the recommendations con-
tained in the report required under subsection 
(a)(1)(B). 
(2) WITHHOLDING OF FUNDS.—Until such rec-
ommendations have been implemented, the United 
States shall withhold from United States contribu-
tions to the regular assessed budget of the United 
Nations for a biennial period amounts that are pro-
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portional to the percentage of such budget that are 
expended for such entities. 
SEC. 310. ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE UNITED NATIONS. 
The President shall direct the United States perma-
nent representative to the United Nations to use the voice, 
vote, and influence of the United States at the United Na-
tions to make every effort to— 
(1) ensure the issuance and implementation of 
a directive by the Secretary General or the Secre-
tariat, as appropriate, that— 
(A) requires all employees of the United 
Nations and its specialized agencies to officially 
and publicly condemn anti-Semitic statements 
made at any session of the United Nations or 
its specialized agencies, or at any other session 
sponsored by the United Nations; 
(B) requires employees of the United Na-
tions and its specialized agencies, programs, 
and funds to be subject to punitive action, in-
cluding immediate dismissal, for making anti- 
Semitic statements or references; 
(C) proposes specific recommendations to 
the General Assembly for the establishment of 
mechanisms to hold accountable employees and 
officials of the United Nations and its special-
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ized agencies, programs, and funds, or Member 
States, that make such anti-Semitic statements 
or references in any forum of the United Na-
tions or of its specialized agencies; 
(D) continues to develop and implements 
education awareness programs about the Holo-
caust and anti-Semitism throughout the world, 
as part of an effort to combat intolerance and 
hatred; and 
(E) requires the Office of the United Na-
tions High Commissioner for Human Rights 
(OHCHR) to develop programming and other 
measures that address anti-Semitism; 
(2) secure the adoption of a resolution by the 
General Assembly that establishes the mechanisms 
described in paragraph (1)(C); and 
(3) continue working toward further reduction 
of anti-Semitic language and anti-Israel resolutions 
in the United Nations and its specialized agencies, 
programs, and funds. 
SEC. 311. REGIONAL GROUP INCLUSION OF ISRAEL. 
The President shall direct the United States Perma-
nent Representative to the United Nations to use the 
voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 
United Nations to expand the Western European and Oth-
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ers Group (WEOG) in the United Nations in Geneva to 
include Israel as a permanent member with full rights and 
privileges. 
SEC. 312. UNITED STATES POLICY ON TAIWAN’S PARTICIPA-
TION IN UNITED NATIONS ENTITIES. 
The Secretary of State shall direct the United States 
Permanent Representative to the United Nations to use 
the voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 
United Nations to ensure meaningful participation for 
Taiwan in relevant United Nations Entities in which Tai-
wan has expressed an interest in participating. 
SEC. 313. UNITED STATES POLICY ON TIER 3 HUMAN 
RIGHTS VIOLATORS. 
The Secretary of State shall direct the United States 
Permanent Representative to the United Nations to use 
the voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 
United Nations to ensure that no representative of a coun-
try designated pursuant to section 110 of the Trafficking 
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107) by the 
Department of State as a Tier 3 country shall preside as 
Chair or President of any United Nations Entity. 
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TITLE IV—STATUS OF PALES-
TINIAN 
ENTITIES 
AT 
THE 
UNITED NATIONS 
SEC. 401. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) In 1989, the Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion (PLO) launched an effort to evade direct nego-
tiations for peace with the State of Israel by instead 
pursuing Palestinian membership in international 
organizations, which could imply de facto recognition 
of a Palestinian state by the United Nations. 
(2) The Executive Branch, with significant sup-
port from Members of Congress, successfully 
stopped the PLO’s effort by credibly threatening, as 
noted in a May 1, 1989, statement by then-Sec-
retary of State James A. Baker, ‘‘that the United 
States [would] make no further contributions, vol-
untary or assessed, to any international organization 
which makes any change in the P.L.O.’s present sta-
tus as an observer organization.’’. 
(3) The United States success in this case dem-
onstrates that withholding contributions and placing 
conditions on their payment can result in real re-
forms, stop counterproductive developments, and ad-
vance United States interests at the United Nations. 
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(4) The Palestinian leadership has recently re-
sumed its effort to evade direct negotiations for 
peace with the State of Israel by seeking recognition 
of a Palestinian state from foreign governments and 
in international forums. 
(5) Efforts to bypass negotiations and to unilat-
erally declare a Palestinian state, or to appeal to the 
United Nations or other international forums or to 
foreign governments for recognition of a Palestinian 
state or membership or other upgraded status for 
the Palestinian observer mission at those forums, 
would violate the underlying principles of the Oslo 
Accords, the Road Map, and other relevant Middle 
East peace process efforts. 
(6) On December 15, 2010, the House of Rep-
resentatives passed House Resolution 1765, in 
which, inter alia, the House of Representatives: 
(A) ‘‘reaffirms its strong opposition to any 
attempt to establish or seek recognition of a 
Palestinian state outside of an agreement nego-
tiated between Israel and the Palestinians’’; 
(B) ‘‘supports the Administration’s opposi-
tion to a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian 
state’’; and 
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(C) ‘‘calls upon the Administration to . . . 
lead a diplomatic effort to persuade other na-
tions to oppose a unilateral declaration of a 
Palestinian state and to oppose recognition of a 
Palestinian state by other nations, within the 
United Nations, and in other international fo-
rums prior to achievement of a final agreement 
between Israel and the Palestinians.’’. 
(7) Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo, United 
States Deputy Permanent Representative to the 
United Nations, stated on July 26, 2011, ‘‘Let there 
be no doubt: symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the 
United Nations in September will not create an 
independent Palestinian state . . . The United 
States will not support unilateral campaigns at the 
United Nations in September or any other time.’’. 
(8) On September 16, 2011, the Deputy Na-
tional Security Advisor for Strategic Communica-
tions stated that ‘‘We would veto actions through 
the Security Council and oppose action through the 
Security Council associated with a unilateral dec-
laration of [Palestinian] statehood.’’. 
SEC. 402. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States to oppose the 
recognition of a Palestinian state by any United Nations 
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Entity, or any upgrade, including but not limited to full 
membership or non-member-state observer status, in the 
status of the Palestinian observer mission at the United 
Nations, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Pales-
tinian Authority, or any other Palestinian administrative 
organization or governing entity, at any United Nations 
Entity, prior to the achievement of a final peace agree-
ment negotiated between and agreed to by Israel and the 
Palestinians. 
SEC. 403. IMPLEMENTATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall direct the 
United States Permanent Representative to the United 
Nations to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United 
States at the United Nations to advance the policy stated 
in section 402. 
(b) WITHHOLDING OF FUNDS.—The Secretary of 
State shall withhold United States contributions from any 
United Nations Entity that recognizes a Palestinian state 
or upgrades in any way, including full membership or non- 
member-state observer status, the status of the Pales-
tinian observer mission at the United Nations, the Pal-
estine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Authority, 
or any other Palestinian administrative organization or 
governing entity, at that United Nations Entity, prior to 
the achievement of complete and final peace agreement ne-
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gotiated between and agreed to by Israel and the Palestin-
ians. Funds appropriated for use as a United States con-
tribution to the United Nations but withheld from obliga-
tion and expenditure pursuant to this section shall imme-
diately revert to the United States Treasury and shall not 
be considered arrears to be repaid to any United Nations 
Entity. 
TITLE V—UNITED NATIONS 
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 
SEC. 501. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Since its establishment in 2006, the United 
Nations Human Rights Council has failed to mean-
ingfully promote the protection of internationally 
recognized human rights, and has proven to be even 
more problematic than the United Nations Human 
Rights Commission that it was created to replace. 
(2) The United Nations Human Rights Council 
suffers from fundamental and severe structural 
flaws present since its establishment by the United 
Nations General Assembly, such as the fact that it 
draws its members from the General Assembly with-
out any substantive membership criteria, with the 
perverse result that a number of the world’s worst 
human rights abusers are members of the council. 
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(3) For example, many members of the United 
Nations Human Rights Council are rated ‘‘Not 
Free’’ or only ‘‘Partly Free’’ by Freedom House. 
Only a minority of members were rated ‘‘Free’’. 
(4) The structure and composition of the 
United Nations Human Rights Council have made it 
subject to gross political manipulation, with the re-
sult that, during its almost seven years of operation, 
the Council has passed over 46 resolutions censuring 
the democratic, Jewish State of Israel, as compared 
to only a handful censuring the dictatorships in 
Burma, North Korea, and Syria, just one addressing 
the severe, ongoing human rights abuses in Libya, 
Iran, and Belarus, and none addressing the severe, 
ongoing human rights abuses in China, Cuba, Rus-
sia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and elsewhere. 
(5) The United Nations Human Rights Coun-
cil’s agenda contains a permanent item for criticism 
of the democratic, Jewish State of Israel, but no 
permanent items criticizing any other state. 
(6) The United Nations Human Rights Council 
has established, or preserved the existence of, a 
number of ‘‘Special Procedures’’ mechanisms to ad-
dress country-specific situations or thematic issues. 
These mechanisms include a number of ‘‘special 
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rapporteurs’’ whose expenses and staff support are 
paid for by contributions to the United Nations. 
(7) The United Nations Human Rights Council 
has also established an ‘‘Advisory Committee’’ whose 
expenses and staff support are paid for by contribu-
tions to the United Nations. 
(8) Some of these special rapporteurs and mem-
bers of the Advisory Committee have displayed con-
sistent bias against the United States, Israel, and 
the Jewish people, while providing support to human 
rights abusers. 
(9) Richard Falk, the United Nations ‘‘Special 
Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Pal-
estinian territories occupied since 1967’’, has com-
pared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the 
Holocaust, questioned the veracity of the events of 
September 11, 2001, and posted a cartoon on his 
blog depicting Americans and Jews as bloodthirsty 
dogs. 
(10) Jean Ziegler, a member of the United Na-
tions Human Rights Council Advisory Committee 
and former United Nations ‘‘Special Rapporteur on 
the Right to Food’’, has accused former President 
George W. Bush and former Israeli Prime Minister 
Ariel Sharon of committing ‘‘state terrorism’’, has 
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called for an investigation of Israel by the Inter-
national Criminal Court for ‘‘war crimes’’ following 
Israel’s war against Hezbollah in 2006, has visited 
Cuba and praised the Cuban regime’s provision of 
food to the Cuban people, and has stated that 
Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe ‘‘has history 
and morality with him’’. Ziegler was also involved in 
the establishment of the ‘‘Al-Gaddafi International 
Prize for Human Rights’’, a prize established by, 
funded by, and named after Libyan dictator Muam-
mar al-Gaddafi, and awarded in the past to Fidel 
Castro, Hugo Chavez, Louis Farrakhan, and Roger 
Garaudy, who has denied the Holocaust, questioned 
the veracity of the events of September 11, 2001, 
and supported Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadine-
jad’s call for Israel to be ‘‘wiped off the map’’. 
(11) Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, a member of 
the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory 
Committee who has previously served as President of 
the United Nations General Assembly and as foreign 
minister for the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, has 
implicitly accused the United States of terrorism, 
has called former President Ronald Reagan a 
‘‘butcher’’, has called for a international boycott of 
Israel, has stated that the Palestinians were being 
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‘‘crucified’’ by Israel, has called Israel’s defensive 
Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip a ‘‘mon-
strosity’’ and ‘‘genocide’’, has urged the United Na-
tions to use the term apartheid in discussing Israeli 
treatment of Palestinians, has embraced Iranian 
leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after Ahmadinejad 
delivered an anti-American, anti-Israel address to 
the United Nations General Assembly, has stated 
that charges of genocide against Sudanese dictator 
Omar Hassan al Bashir are ‘‘racist’’, and has de-
clared Fidel Castro ‘‘World Hero of Solidarity’’, 
stating that Castro ‘‘embod[ied] virtues and values 
worth emulation by all of us’’. 
(12) Halima Warzazi, a member of the United 
Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, 
has compared Israel to Nazi Germany, and used her 
previous membership in a United Nations apparatus 
to shield Saddam Hussein from censure for gassing 
Iraqi Kurds in Halabja. 
(13) The ongoing five-year review of the United 
Nations Human Rights Council concluded on June 
17, 2011, and failed to make any significant reforms 
to its fundamental and severe structural flaws, in-
cluding its absence of substantive membership cri-
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teria, or to remove the permanent agenda item on 
Israel. 
(14) On June 17, 2011, John F. Sammis, 
United States Deputy Representative to the Eco-
nomic and Social Council, stated that ‘‘The Geneva 
process [of the five-year review] failed to yield even 
minimally positive results, forcing us to dissociate 
from the outcome . . . the final resolution [for the 
five-year review] also fails to address the core prob-
lems that still plague the Human Rights Council 
. . . The United States has therefore voted ‘no’ on 
the resolution . . . the Council’s effectiveness and 
legitimacy will always be compromised so long as 
one country in all the world is unfairly and uniquely 
singled out while others, including chronic human 
rights abusers, escape scrutiny . . . The resolution 
before us today does nothing to address the Coun-
cil’s failures nor move it any closer to the founding 
values of the UN Charter and the Universal Dec-
laration of Human Rights.’’. 
(15) United States membership in the Human 
Rights Council has not led to reform of its funda-
mental flaws diminished the Council’s virulently 
anti-Israel behavior. The Council has passed twenty- 
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seven resolutions criticizing Israel since the United 
States joined in 2009. 
SEC. 502. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP AND 
FUNDING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For each and every fiscal year 
subsequent to the effective date of this Act, until the Sec-
retary of State submits to Congress a certification that 
the requirements described in subsection (b) have been 
satisfied— 
(1) the Secretary of State shall withhold from 
a United States contribution each fiscal year to a 
regular budget of the United Nations an amount 
that is equal to the percentage of such contribution 
that the Secretary determines would be allocated by 
the United Nations to support the United Nations 
Human Rights Council; 
(2) the Secretary of State shall not make a vol-
untary contribution to the United Nations Human 
Rights Council; and 
(3) the United States shall not run for a seat 
on the United Nations Human Rights Council. 
(b) CERTIFICATION.—The annual certification re-
ferred to in subsection (a) is a certification made by the 
Secretary to Congress that— 
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(1) the United Nations Human Rights Coun-
cil’s mandate from the United Nations General As-
sembly explicitly and effectively prohibits candidacy 
for Human Rights Council membership of a United 
Nations Member State— 
(A) subject to sanctions by the Security 
Council; and 
(B) under a Security Council-mandated in-
vestigation for human rights abuses; 
(2) the United Nations Human Rights Council 
does not include a United Nations Member State— 
(A) subject to sanctions by the Security 
Council; 
(B) under a Security Council-mandated in-
vestigation for human rights abuses; 
(C) which the Secretary of State has deter-
mined, for purposes of section 6(j) of the Ex-
port Administration Act of 1979 (as continued 
in effect pursuant to the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act), section 40 of the 
Arms Export Control Act, section 620A of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, or other provi-
sion of law, is a government that has repeatedly 
provided support for acts of international ter-
rorism; or 
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(D) which the President has designated as 
a country of particular concern for religious 
freedom under section 402(b) of the Inter-
national Religious Freedom Act of 1998; and 
(3) the United Nations Human Rights Coun-
cil’s agenda or programme of work does not include 
a permanent item with regard to the State of Israel. 
(c) SPECIAL PROCEDURES.—The Secretary of State 
shall withhold from a United States contribution each year 
to a regular budget of the United Nations an amount that 
is equal to the percentage of such contribution that the 
Secretary determines would be allocated by the United 
Nations to support the United Nations ‘‘Special 
Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Pales-
tinian territories occupied since 1967’’, and any other 
United Nations Human Rights Council ‘‘Special Proce-
dures’’ used to display bias against the United States or 
the State of Israel or to provide support for the govern-
ment of any United Nations Member State— 
(1) subject to sanctions by the Security Council; 
(2) under a Security Council-mandated inves-
tigation for human rights abuses; 
(3) which the Secretary of State has deter-
mined, for purposes of section 6(j) of the Export Ad-
ministration Act of 1979 (as continued in effect pur-
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suant to the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act), section 40 of the Arms Export Control 
Act, section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961, or other provision of law, is a government that 
has repeatedly provided support for acts of inter-
national terrorism; or 
(4) which the President has designated as a 
country of particular concern for religious freedom 
under section 402(b) of the International Religious 
Freedom Act of 1998. 
(d) REVERSION OF FUNDS.—Funds appropriated for 
use as a United States contribution to the United Nations 
but withheld from obligation and expenditure pursuant to 
this section shall immediately revert to the United States 
Treasury and shall not be considered arrears to be repaid 
to any United Nations Entity. 
TITLE VI—GOLDSTONE REPORT 
SEC. 601. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) On January 12, 2009, the United Nations 
Human Rights Council passed Resolution A/HRC/S– 
9/L.1, which authorized a ‘‘fact-finding mission’’ re-
garding Israel’s conduct of Operation Cast Lead 
against violent militants in the Gaza Strip between 
December 27, 2008, and January 18, 2009. 
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(2) The resolution pre-judged the outcome of its 
investigation by one-sidedly mandating the ‘‘fact- 
finding mission’’ to ‘‘investigate all violations of 
international human rights law and International 
Humanitarian Law by . . . Israel, against the Pal-
estinian people . . . particularly in the occupied 
Gaza Strip, due to the current aggression’’. 
(3) The mandate of the ‘‘fact-finding mission’’ 
makes no mention of the relentless rocket and mor-
tar attacks, which numbered in the thousands and 
spanned a period of eight years, by Hamas and 
other violent militant groups in Gaza against civilian 
targets in Israel, that necessitated Israel’s defensive 
measures. 
(4) The ‘‘fact-finding mission’’ included a mem-
ber who, before joining the mission, had already de-
clared Israel guilty of committing atrocities in Oper-
ation Cast Lead by signing a public letter on Janu-
ary 11, 2009, published in the Sunday Times, that 
called Israel’s actions ‘‘war crimes’’. 
(5) The mission’s flawed and biased mandate 
gave serious concern to many United Nations 
Human Rights Council Member States which re-
fused 
to 
support 
it, 
including 
Bosnia 
and 
Herzegovina, Cameroon, Canada, France, Germany, 
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Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the Republic of 
Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, and 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern 
Ireland. 
(6) The mission’s flawed and biased mandate 
was never broadened or revised by any plenary meet-
ing of the United Nations Human Rights Council, 
and troubled many distinguished individuals who re-
fused invitations to head the mission. 
(7) On September 15, 2009, the ‘‘United Na-
tions Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’’ 
released its report, which is commonly referred to as 
the ‘‘Goldstone Report’’. 
(8) The Goldstone Report repeatedly made 
sweeping and unsubstantiated determinations that 
the Israeli military had deliberately attacked civil-
ians during Operation Cast Lead. 
(9) The authors of the Goldstone Report admit 
that ‘‘we did not deal with the issues . . . regarding 
the problems of conducting military operations in ci-
vilian areas and second-guessing decisions made by 
soldiers and their commanding officers in the fog of 
war.’’. 
(10) In the October 16, 2009, edition of the 
Jewish Daily Forward, Richard Goldstone, the head 
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of the ‘‘United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the 
Gaza Conflict’’, is quoted as saying, with respect to 
the mission’s evidence-collection methods, ‘‘If this 
was a court of law, there would have been nothing 
proven’’. 
(11) The Goldstone Report, in effect, denied the 
State of Israel the right to self-defense, and never 
noted the fact that Israel had the right to defend its 
citizens from the repeated violent attacks committed 
against civilian targets in southern Israel by Hamas 
and other Foreign Terrorist Organizations operating 
from Gaza. 
(12) The Goldstone Report largely ignored the 
culpability of the Government of Iran and the Gov-
ernment of Syria, both of whom sponsor Hamas and 
other Foreign Terrorist Organizations. 
(13) The Goldstone Report usually considered 
public statements made by Israeli officials not to be 
credible, while frequently giving uncritical credence 
to statements taken from what it called the ‘‘Gaza 
authorities’’, i.e., the Gaza leadership of Hamas. 
(14) Notwithstanding a great body of evidence 
that Hamas and other violent Islamist groups com-
mitted war crimes by using civilians and civilian in-
stitutions, such as mosques, schools, and hospitals, 
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as shields, the Goldstone Report repeatedly down-
played or cast doubt upon that claim. 
(15) In one notable instance, the Goldstone Re-
port stated that it did not consider the admission of 
a Hamas official that Hamas often ‘‘created a 
human shield of women, children, the elderly and the 
mujahideen, against [the Israeli military]’’ specifi-
cally to ‘‘constitute evidence that Hamas forced Pal-
estinian civilians to shield military objectives against 
attack’’. 
(16) Hamas was able to significantly shape the 
findings of the investigation mission’s Goldstone Re-
port by selecting and prescreening some of the wit-
nesses and intimidating others, as the Goldstone Re-
port acknowledges when it notes that ‘‘those inter-
viewed in Gaza appeared reluctant to speak about 
the presence of or conduct of hostilities by the Pales-
tinian armed groups . . . from a fear of reprisals’’. 
(17) Even though Israel is a vibrant democracy 
with a vigorous and free press, the Goldstone Report 
erroneously asserts that ‘‘actions of the Israeli gov-
ernment . . . have contributed significantly to a po-
litical climate in which dissent with the government 
and its actions . . . is not tolerated’’. 
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(18) The Goldstone Report recommended that 
the United Nations Human Rights Council endorse 
its recommendations, implement them, review their 
implementation, and refer the report to the United 
Nations Security Council, the Prosecutor of the 
International Criminal Court, and the United Na-
tions General Assembly for further action. 
(19) The Goldstone Report recommended that 
the United Nations Security Council— 
(A) require the Government of Israel to 
launch further investigations of its conduct dur-
ing Operation Cast Lead and report back to the 
Security Council within 6 months; 
(B) simultaneously appoint an ‘‘inde-
pendent committee of experts’’ to monitor and 
report on any domestic legal or other pro-
ceedings undertaken by the Government of 
Israel within that 6-month period; and 
(C) refer the case to the Prosecutor of the 
International Criminal Court after that 6- 
month period. 
(20) The Goldstone Report recommended that 
the United Nations General Assembly consider fur-
ther action on the report and establish an escrow 
fund, to be funded entirely by the State of Israel, to 
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‘‘pay adequate compensation to Palestinians who 
have suffered loss and damage’’ during Operation 
Cast Lead. 
(21) The Goldstone Report ignored the issue of 
compensation to Israelis who have been killed or 
wounded, or suffered other loss and damage, as a re-
sult of years of past and continuing rocket and mor-
tar attacks by Hamas and other violent militant 
groups in Gaza against civilian targets in southern 
Israel. 
(22) The Goldstone Report recommended ‘‘that 
States Parties to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 
start criminal investigations [of Operation Cast 
Lead] in national courts, using universal jurisdic-
tion’’ and that ‘‘following investigation, alleged per-
petrators should be arrested and prosecuted’’. 
(23) The concept of ‘‘universal jurisdiction’’ has 
frequently been used in attempts to detain, charge, 
and prosecute Israeli and United States officials and 
former officials in connection with unfounded allega-
tions of war crimes and has often unfairly impeded 
the travel of those individuals. 
(24) On September 20, 2009, United Nations 
High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem 
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Pillay wrote, ‘‘I lend my full support to Justice 
Goldstone’s report and its recommendations’’. 
(25) The State of Israel, like many other free 
democracies, has an independent judicial system 
with a robust investigatory capacity and has already 
launched numerous investigations, many of which re-
main ongoing, of Operation Cast Lead and indi-
vidual incidents therein. 
(26) Several nations have indicated that they 
intend to further pursue consideration of the 
Goldstone Report and implementation of its rec-
ommendations by the United Nations Security Coun-
cil, the United Nations General Assembly, the 
United Nations Human Rights Council, and other 
multilateral fora. 
(27) On September 30, 2009, Secretary of 
State Hillary Clinton described the underlying man-
date for the Goldstone Report as ‘‘one-sided’’. 
(28) On September 17, 2009, Ambassador 
Susan Rice, United States Permanent Representa-
tive to the United Nations, expressed the United 
States ‘‘very serious concern with the mandate’’ un-
derlying the Goldstone Report and noted that the 
United States views the mandate ‘‘as unbalanced, 
one-sided and basically unacceptable’’. 
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(29) Israeli President Shimon Peres has called 
the Goldstone Report a ‘‘blood libel’’. 
(30) The Goldstone Report reflects the long-
standing, historic bias at the United Nations against 
the democratic, Jewish State of Israel. 
(31) The Goldstone Report is being exploited by 
Israel’s enemies to excuse the actions of violent mili-
tant groups and their state sponsors, and to justify 
isolation of and punitive measures against the demo-
cratic, Jewish State of Israel. 
(32) On November 3, 2009, the House of Rep-
resentatives overwhelmingly adopted House Resolu-
tion 867, which stated that the House of Represent-
atives: 
(A) ‘‘considers the [Goldstone Report] to 
be irredeemably biased and unworthy of further 
consideration or legitimacy’’; 
(B) ‘‘supports the Administration’s efforts 
to combat anti-Israel bias at the United Na-
tions, its characterization of the [Goldstone Re-
port] as ‘unbalanced, one-sided and basically 
unacceptable’, and its opposition to the resolu-
tion on the report’’; 
(C) ‘‘calls on the President and the Sec-
retary of State to continue to strongly and un-
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equivocally oppose any endorsement of the 
[Goldstone Report] in multilateral fora, includ-
ing through leading opposition to any United 
Nations General Assembly resolution and 
through vetoing, if necessary, any United Na-
tions Security Council resolution that endorses 
the contents of this report, seeks to act upon 
the recommendations contained in this report, 
or calls on any other international body to take 
further action regarding this report’’; 
(D) ‘‘calls on the President and the Sec-
retary of State to strongly and unequivocally 
oppose any further consideration of the ‘Report 
of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on 
the Gaza Conflict’ and any other measures 
stemming from this report in multilateral fora’’; 
and 
(E) ‘‘reaffirms its support for the demo-
cratic, Jewish State of Israel, for Israel’s secu-
rity and right to self-defense, and, specifically, 
for Israel’s right to defend its citizens from vio-
lent militant groups and their state sponsors’’. 
(33) On October 16, 2009, the United Nations 
Human Rights Council voted 25–6 (with 11 Member 
States abstaining and 5 not voting, and with the 
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United States voting against) to adopt resolution A– 
HRC–S–12–1, which endorsed the Goldstone Report 
and condemned Israel, without mentioning Hamas, 
other such violent militant groups, or their state 
sponsors. The United States voted against the reso-
lution. 
(34) On November 5, 2009, the United Nations 
General Assembly voted 114–18 (with 44 Member 
States abstaining, and with the United States voting 
against) to adopt resolution A/RES/64/10, which, 
among other things: 
(A) endorsed the United Nations Human 
Rights Council’s resolution A–HRC–S–12–1, 
which endorsed the Goldstone Report and con-
demned Israel, without mentioning Hamas, 
other such violent militant groups, or their 
state sponsors; 
(B) requested that the Secretary General 
of the United Nations transmit the Goldstone 
Report to the United Nations Security Council; 
(C) expressed its ‘‘appreciation’’ to the 
‘‘United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the 
Gaza Conflict’’ for its ‘‘comprehensive report’’; 
(D) expressed grave concern regarding ‘‘re-
ports regarding serious human rights viola-
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