IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 879 
Objecting to United Nations funding of the Durban Review Conference using 
the United Nations regular budget, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 17, 2007 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. 
ROHRABACHER, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. 
POE, Mr. PENCE, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. WIL-
SON of South Carolina, Mr. FORTUN˜O, and Mr. INGLIS of South Caro-
lina) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Objecting to United Nations funding of the Durban Review 
Conference using the United Nations regular budget, 
and for other purposes. 
Whereas the United States is opposed to racism, racial dis-
crimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance, and has 
long been a party to the Convention on the Elimination 
of Racial Discrimination; 
Whereas expensive and politically skewed international con-
ferences can disserve and undermine the worthy goals 
that they are ostensibly convened to support; 
Whereas the goals of the 2001 United Nations (‘‘UN’’) 
World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South 
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•HRES 879 IH 
Africa, were undermined by hateful, anti-Jewish rhetoric 
and anti-Israel political agendas, prompting both Israel 
and the United States to withdraw their delegations from 
the Conference; 
Whereas on September 3, 2001, Secretary of State Colin 
Powell explained the withdrawal of the United States del-
egation by stating that ‘‘you do not combat racism by 
conferences that produce declarations containing hateful 
language, some of which is a throwback to the days of 
‘Zionism equals racism’; or supports the idea that we 
have made too much of the Holocaust; or suggests that 
apartheid exists in Israel; or that singles out only one 
country in the world—Israel—for censure and abuse’’; 
Whereas the UN General Assembly has initiated preparations 
for a ‘‘Durban Review Conference’’ (commonly referred 
to as ‘‘Durban II’’) and has requested funding for those 
activities from the UN regular budget, over the objections 
of the United States, the European Union, Canada, Aus-
tralia, and other prominent Member States; 
Whereas the United States is the largest contributor to the 
UN system, and is assessed for a full 22 percent of the 
UN regular budget, which is funded by assessed con-
tributions from Member States; 
Whereas funding Durban Review Conference activities 
through the UN regular budget could result in millions 
of dollars from United States taxpayers being used for 
those purposes; 
Whereas the preparation and management of the Durban Re-
view Conference has been committed to the UN Human 
Rights Council; and 
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•HRES 879 IH 
Whereas during the 110th Congress the House of Represent-
atives has passed a prohibition on United States funding 
for the UN Human Rights Council, and has strongly con-
demned the Council for ignoring severe human rights 
issues in other countries, while choosing to unfairly tar-
get the State of Israel: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) strongly objects to any United Nations pro-
posal to fund the Durban Review Conference and 
preparatory activities through the UN regular budg-
et, which is itself funded by assessed contributions 
of Member States, including the United States; 
(2) urges that any proposal to fund the Durban 
Review Conference through the UN regular budget 
should be subject to a vote in the UN Fifth Com-
mittee on administrative and budgetary matters; and 
(3) urges the United States to use its voice and 
vote in the Fifth Committee to oppose any proposal 
for funding Durban Review Conference activities 
through the UN regular budget. 
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