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for the 2004–2005 biennial period for the fol-
lowing organizational programs: 
‘‘(i) Public Information. 
‘‘(ii) General Assembly affairs and 
conferences services. 
‘‘(C) REDIRECTION OF FUNDS.—
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—The President 
shall direct the United States Permanent 
Representative to the United Nations to 
make every effort, including the with-
holding of United States support for a con-
sensus budget of the United Nations, to 
reduce the budgets of the organizational 
programs specified in subparagraph (B) 
for 2007 by ten percent against the budg-
ets of such organizational programs for the 
2004–2005 biennial period. If the budgets 
of such organizational programs are not so 
reduced, 20 percent the amount deter-
mined under subparagraph (B) for con-
tributions towards payment of regular as-
sessed dues for 2007 shall be redirected 
from payment for the amount assessed for 
United States annual contributions to the
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regular assessed budget of the United Na-
tions. 
‘‘(ii) SPECIFIC
AMOUNTS.—The Sec-
retary shall make the amount determined 
under clause (i) available as a contribution 
to an eligible organizational program speci-
fied in subparagraphs (A) through (C) of 
paragraph (4) of subsection (c). 
‘‘(3) POLICY WITH RESPECT TO 2008–2009 BIEN-
NIAL
PERIOD
AND
SUBSEQUENT
BIENNIAL
PERI-
ODS.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The President shall 
direct the United States Permanent Represent-
ative to the United Nations to make every ef-
fort, including the withholding of United States 
support for a consensus budget of the United 
Nations, to reduce the budgets of the organiza-
tional programs specified in subparagraph (B) 
of paragraph (2) for the 2008–2009 biennial 
period and each subsequent biennial period by 
20 percent against the budgets of such organi-
zational programs for the 2004–2005 biennial 
period. 
‘‘(B) CERTIFICATION.—In accordance with 
section 601, a certification shall be required
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that certifies that the reduction in budgets de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) has been imple-
mented.’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (c) shall take effect and apply beginning on Oc-
tober 1, 2006. 
(e) LIMITATION ON UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS 
TO UNRWA.—The Secretary of State may not make a 
contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works 
Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 
(UNRWA) in an amount greater than the highest con-
tribution to UNRWA made by an Arab country, but may 
not exceed 22 percent of the total budget of UNRWA. For 
purposes of this subsection, an Arab country includes the 
following: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Dijibouti, Egypt, 
Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Mo-
rocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, 
Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, and Yemen. 
(f) 
POLICY
RELATING
TO
ZERO
NOMINAL 
GROWTH.—It shall be the policy of the United States to 
use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States at 
the United Nations to make every effort to enforce zero 
nominal growth in all assessed dues to the regular budget 
of the United Nations, its specialized agencies, and its 
funds and programs.
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(g) 5.6 Rule.—It shall be the policy of the United 
States to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United 
States at the United Nations to actively enforce the 5.6 
rule at the United Nations, requiring the Secretariat to 
identify low-priority activities in the budget proposal. The 
United Nations should strengthen the 5.6 rule by requir-
ing that managers identify the lowest priority activities 
equivalent to 15 percent of their budget request or face 
an across the board reduction of such amount. 
(h) ANNUAL PUBLICATION.—It shall be the policy of 
the United States to use the voice, vote, and influence of 
the United States at the United Nations to ensure the 
United Nations is annually publishing a list of all sub-
sidiary bodies and their functions, budgets, and staff. 
(i) SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS.—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 make every effort 
to ensure that the difference between the scale of assess-
ments for the five permanent members of the Security 
Council is not greater than five times that of any other 
permanent member of the Security Council. 
(j) DENIAL OF USE OF VETO.—If the Secretary of 
State determines that a permanent member of the Secu-
rity Council with veto power is not in compliance with the
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requirement described in subsection (e), 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 make every 
effort to deny to such permanent member the use of the 
veto power of such permanent member until such time as 
such permanent member satisfies the requirement of such 
subsection. 
SEC. 102. WEIGHTED VOTING. 
It shall be the policy of the United States to actively 
pursue weighted voting with respect to all budgetary and 
financial matters in the Administrative and Budgetary 
Committee and in the General Assembly in accordance 
with the level of the financial contribution of a Member 
State to the regular assessed budget of the United Na-
tions. 
SEC. 103. BUDGET CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) CERTIFICATION.—In accordance with section 
601, a certification shall be required that certifies that the 
conditions described in subsection (b) have been satisfied. 
(b) CONDITIONS.—The conditions under this sub-
section are the following: 
(1) NEW BUDGET PRACTICES FOR THE UNITED 
NATIONS.—The United Nations is implementing 
budget practices that—
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(A) require the maintenance of a budget 
not in excess of the level agreed to by the Gen-
eral Assembly at the beginning of each United 
Nations budgetary biennium, unless increases 
are agreed to by consensus and do not exceed 
ten percent; and 
(B) require the identification of expendi-
tures by the United Nations by functional cat-
egories such as personnel, travel, and equip-
ment. 
(2) PROGRAM EVALUATION.—
(A) EXISTING AUTHORITY.—The Secretary 
General and the Director General of each spe-
cialized agency have used their existing authori-
ties to require program managers within the 
United Nations Secretariat and the Secretariats 
of the specialized agencies to conduct evalua-
tions in accordance with the standardized meth-
odology referred to in subparagraph (B) of—
(i) United Nations programs approved 
by the General Assembly; and 
(ii) programs of the specialized agen-
cies. 
(B) DEVELOPMENT OF EVALUATION CRI-
TERIA.—
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(i) UNITED NATIONS.—The Office of 
Internal Oversight Services has developed 
a standardized methodology for the evalua-
tion of United Nations programs approved 
by the General Assembly, including specific 
criteria for determining the continuing rel-
evance and effectiveness of the programs. 
(ii) 
SPECIALIZED
AGENCIES.—Pat-
terned on the work of the Office of Inter-
nal Oversight Services of the United Na-
tions, each specialized agency has devel-
oped a standardized methodology for the 
evaluation of the programs of the agency, 
including specific criteria for determining 
the continuing relevance and effectiveness 
of the programs. 
(C) REPORT.—The Secretary General is 
assessing budget requests and, on the basis of 
evaluations conducted under subparagraph (B) 
for the relevant preceding year, submits to the 
General Assembly a report containing the re-
sults of such evaluations, identifying programs 
that have satisfied the criteria for continuing 
relevance and effectiveness, and an identifica-
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tion of programs that have not satisfied such 
criteria and should be terminated. 
(D) SUNSET
OF
PROGRAMS.—Consistent 
with the July 16, 1997, recommendations of the 
Secretary General regarding a sunset policy and 
results-based budgeting for United Nations pro-
grams, the United Nations and each specialized 
agency has established and is implementing 
procedures to require all new programs ap-
proved by the General Assembly to have a spe-
cific sunset date. 
SEC. 104. ACCOUNTABILITY. 
(a) CERTIFICATION OF CREATION OF INDEPENDENT 
OVERSIGHT BOARD.—In accordance with section 601, a 
certification shall be required that certifies that the fol-
lowing reforms related to the establishment of an Inde-
pendent Oversight Board (IOB) have been adopted by the 
United Nations: 
(1) An IOB is established from existing United 
Nations budgetary and personnel resources. Except 
as provided in this subsection, the IOB shall be an 
independent entity within the United Nations and 
shall not be subject to budget authority or organiza-
tional authority of any entity within the United Na-
tions.
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(2) The head of the IOB shall be a Director, 
who shall be nominated by the Secretary General 
and who shall be subject to Security Council ap-
proval by a majority vote. The IOB shall also consist 
of four other board members who shall be nominated 
by the Secretary General and subject to Security 
Council approval by a majority vote. The IOB shall 
be responsible to the Security Council and the Direc-
tor and board members shall each serve terms of 6 
years, except that the terms of the initial board shall 
be staggered so that no more than two board mem-
bers’ terms will expire in any one year. No board 
member may serve more than two terms. An IOB 
board member may be removed for cause by a ma-
jority vote of the Security Council. The Director 
shall appoint a professional staff headed by a Chief 
of Staff and may employ contract staff as needed. 
(3) The IOB shall receive operational and budg-
etary funding through appropriations by the General 
Assembly from existing levels of United Nations 
budgetary and personnel resources, and shall not be 
dependent upon any other entity, bureau, division, 
department, or specialized agency of the United Na-
tions for such funding.
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(4) While the IOB shall have the authority to 
evaluate all operations of the United Nations, the 
primary mission of the IOB is to oversee the Office 
of Internal Oversight Services and the Board of Ex-
ternal Auditors. The IOB may direct the Office of 
Internal Oversight Services or the Board of External 
Auditors to initiate, abandon, or modify the scope of 
an investigation. Every three months or more fre-
quently when appropriate, the IOB shall submit, as 
appropriate, to the Secretary General, the Security 
Council, the General Assembly, or the Economic and 
Social Council a report on its activities, relevant ob-
servations, and recommendations relating to its 
audit operations, including information relating to 
the inventory and status of investigations by the Of-
fice of Internal Oversight Services. 
(5) In extraordinary circumstances and with the 
concurrence of the Secretary General or the Security 
Council by majority vote, the IOB may augment the 
Office of Internal Oversight Services with a special 
investigator and staff consisting of individuals who 
are not employees of the United Nations, to inves-
tigate matters involving senior officials of the United 
Nations or of its specialized agencies when allega-
tions of serious misconduct have been made and
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such a special investigation is necessary to maintain 
public confidence in the integrity of the investiga-
tion. A special investigator and staff shall comply 
with all United Nations financial disclosure and con-
flict of interest rules, including the filing of an indi-
vidual Annual Financial Disclosure Form in accord-
ance with subsection (c). 
(6) The IOB shall recommend annual budgets 
for the Office of Internal Oversight Services and the 
Board of External Auditors. 
(7)(A) The IOB shall review the Final Report 
of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) into the 
United Nations Oil for Food Program (OFF). The 
IOB’s review should focus on the adequacy of the 
IIC’s Final Report or any subsequent reports of the 
IIC or of any possible successor to the IIC. The 
IOB’s review of the IIC’s Final Report should ad-
dress the Final Report’s treatment of and adequacy 
in the following areas—
(i) 
OFF’s 
operations 
from 
inception 
through the transfer of power from the Coali-
tion Provisional Authority to the interim Iraqi 
government; 
(ii) claims of oil smuggling, illegal sur-
charges on oil and commissions on commodity
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contracts, illegal kick-backs, use of oil alloca-
tions to influence foreign government officials 
and international people of influence, and use of 
funds for military purposes; 
(iii) the involvement, directly or indirectly, 
of any entity, bureau, division, department, spe-
cialized agency, or employee (including the Sec-
retary General) of the United Nations, includ-
ing any employee of the specialized agencies of 
the United Nations or any employee or officer 
of the Secretariat; 
(iv) the IIC’s findings, discovery and use of 
evidence, and investigation practices; and 
(v) the extent of cooperation by the United 
Nations with requests by Congress for testi-
mony, interviews, documents, correspondence, 
reports, memoranda, books, papers, accounts, 
or records related to the Oil for Food Program. 
(B) Subsequent to the IOB’s review, the IOB 
shall determine in a written report whether the IIC 
investigation is incomplete or inadequate in any re-
spects and whether any additional investigation is 
justified. If the IOB determines that additional in-
vestigation is warranted, it shall appoint, in accord-
ance with paragraph (5), a special investigator and
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staff consisting of individuals who are not employees 
of the United Nations and to identify specific areas 
within the OFF to investigate. 
(b) CERTIFICATION OF UNITED NATIONS REFORMS 
OF THE OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES.—
In accordance with section 601, a certification shall be re-
quired that certifies that the following reforms related to 
the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) have 
been adopted by the United Nations: 
(1) The OIOS is designated as an independent 
entity within the United Nations. The OIOS shall 
not be subject to budget authority or organizational 
authority of any entity within the United Nations 
except as provided in this section. 
(2) The regular assessed budget of the United 
Nations shall fully fund the Internal Oversight 
Budget from existing levels of United Nations budg-
etary and personnel resources and shall not be de-
pendent upon any other entity, bureau, division, de-
partment, or specialized agency of the United Na-
tions for such funding. 
(3) All United Nations officials, including offi-
cials from any entity, bureau, division, department, 
or specialized agency of the United Nations, may—
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(A) make a recommendation to the OIOS 
to initiate an investigation of any aspect of the 
United Nations; or 
(B) report to the OIOS information or al-
legations of misconduct or inefficiencies within 
the United Nations. 
(4) The OIOS may, sua sponte, initiate and 
conduct an investigation or audit of any entity, bu-
reau, division, department, specialized agency, em-
ployee (including the Secretary General) of the 
United Nations, including any employee of the spe-
cialized agencies of the United Nations, or con-
tractor or consultant for the United Nations or its 
specialized agencies. 
(5) At least every three months and more fre-
quently when appropriate, the OIOS shall submit to 
the IOB a report containing an inventory and status 
of its investigations. 
(6) The OIOS shall establish procedures for 
providing ‘‘whistle-blower’’ status and employment 
protections for all employees of the United Nations, 
including employees of the specialized agencies of 
the United Nations, who provide informational leads 
and testimony related to allegations of wrongdoing. 
Such procedures shall be adopted throughout the
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United Nations. Such status and protection may not 
be conferred on the Secretary General. 
(7) The OIOS shall annually publish a public 
report determining the proper number, distribution, 
and expertise of auditors within the OIOS necessary 
to carry out present and future duties of the OIOS, 
including assessing the staffing requirements needed 
to audit United Nations contracting activities 
throughout the contract cycle from the bid process 
to contract performance. 
(8) Not later than 6 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Director shall estab-
lish a position of Associate Director of OIOS for 
Specialized Agencies and Funds and Programs who 
shall be responsible for supervising the OIOS liaison 
or oversight duties for each of the specialized agen-
cies and funds and programs of the United Nations. 
With the concurrence of the Director, the Associate 
Director of OIOS for Specialized Agencies and 
Funds and Programs may, from existing levels of 
United Nations budgetary and personnel resources, 
hire and appoint necessary OIOS staff, including 
staff serving within and located at specialized agen-
cies and funds and programs permanently or as
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needed to liaison with existing audit functions within 
each specialized agency and fund and program. 
(9) Not later than 6 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Director shall estab-
lish a position of Associate Director of OIOS for 
Peacekeeping Operations, who shall be responsible 
for the oversight and auditing of the field offices at-
tached to United Nations peacekeeping operations. 
The Associate Director of OIOS for Peacekeeping 
Operations shall receive informational leads and tes-
timony from any person regarding allegations of 
wrongdoing by United Nations officials or peace-
keeping troops or regarding inefficiencies associated 
with United Nations peacekeeping operations. The 
Associate Director of OIOS for Peacekeeping Oper-
ations shall be responsible for initiating, conducting, 
and overseeing investigations within peacekeeping 
operations. 
(10) Not later than 6 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Director shall estab-
lish a position of Associate Director of OIOS for 
Procurement and Contract Integrity, who shall be 
responsible for auditing and inspecting procurement 
and contracting win the United Nations, including 
within the specialized agencies. The Associate Direc-
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tor of OIOS for Procurement and Contract Integrity 
shall receive informational leads and testimony from 
any person regarding allegations of wrongdoing by 
United Nations officials or regarding inefficiencies 
associated with United Nations procurement or con-
tracting activities. The Associate Director of OIOS 
for Procurement and Contract Integrity shall be re-
sponsible for initiating, conducting, and overseeing 
investigations of procurement and contract activities. 
Not later than 12 months after the establishment of 
the position of Associate Director of OIOS for Pro-
curement and Contract Integrity, the Director, with 
the assistance of the Associate Director of OIOS for 
Procurement and Contract Integrity, shall undertake 
a review of contract procedures to ensure that prac-
tices and policies are in place to ensure that—
(A) the United Nations has ceased issuing 
single bid contracts except for such contracts 
issued during an emergency situation that is 
justified by the Under Secretary General for 
Management; 
(B) the United Nations has established ef-
fective controls to prevent conflicts of interest 
in the award of contracts; and
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(C) the United Nations has established ef-
fective procedures and policies to ensure effec-
tive and comprehensive oversight and moni-
toring of United Nations contract performance. 
(c) CERTIFICATION OF ESTABLISHMENT OF UNITED 
NATIONS OFFICE OF ETHICS.—In accordance with sec-
tion 601, a certification shall be required that certifies 
that the following reforms related to the establishment of 
a United Nations Office of Ethics have been adopted by 
the United Nations: 
(1) A United Nations Office of Ethics (UNOE) 
is established. The UNOE shall be an independent 
entity within the United Nations and shall not be 
subject to budget authority or organizational author-
ity of any entity within the United Nations. The 
UNEO shall be responsible for establishing, man-
aging, and enforcing a code of ethics for all employ-
ees of United Nations and its specialized agencies. 
The UNEO shall also be responsible for providing 
such employees with annual training related to such 
code. The head of the UNEO shall be a Director 
who shall be nominated by the Secretary General 
and who shall be subject to Security Council ap-
proval by majority vote. The UNOE shall promul-
gate ethics rules, including the following:
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(A) No employee of any United Nations 
entity, bureau, division, department, or special-
ized agency may be compensated while partici-
pating in the domestic politics of the country of 
such employee, except for voting or acting as 
part of a Security Council, General Assembly, 
or legitimately authorized United Nations mis-
sion or assignment. 
(B) No United Nations entity, bureau, di-
vision, department, or specialized agency may 
hire an individual convicted in a generally rec-
ognized court of a democratically-elected gov-
ernment with an independent judiciary and an 
extradition treaty with the United States and 
the European Union for any crime or crimes in-
volving 
financial 
misfeasance, 
malfeasance, 
fraud, or perjury. 
(C) The employment of an employee of any 
United Nations entity, bureau, division, depart-
ment, or specialized agency who is convicted in 
a generally recognized court of a democrat-
ically-elected government with an independent 
judiciary and an extradition treaty with the 
United States and the European Union of any 
crime or crimes involving financial misfeasance,
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malfeasance, fraud, or perjury shall be subject 
to termination. 
(D) If an employee of any United Nations 
entity, bureau, division, department, or special-
ized agency has contact regarding the disposi-
tion of ongoing internal United Nations oper-
ations or decisions with an individual who is not 
an employee or official of the government of a 
Member State (or a similarly situated indi-
vidual), with an individual who is not officially 
employed by any United Nations entity, bureau, 
division, department, or specialized agency, or 
with an individual who is not a working mem-
ber of the media, a memorandum of such con-
tact shall be prepared by such employee and, 
upon request, be made available to Member 
States. 
(2) The UNEO shall receive operational and 
budgetary funding through appropriations by the 
General Assembly from existing levels of United Na-
tions budgetary and personnel resources and shall 
not be dependent upon any other entity, bureau, di-
vision, department, or specialized agency of the 
United Nations for such funding.
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(3) The Director of the UNEO shall, not later 
than 6 months after the date of its establishment, 
publish a report containing proposals for imple-
menting a system for the filing and review of indi-
vidual Annual Financial Disclosure Forms by each 
employee of the United Nations, including by each 
employee of its specialized agencies, at the P–5 level 
and above and by all contractors and consultants 
compensated at any salary level. Such system shall 
be in place and operational not later than 6 months 
after the date of the publication of the report. Such 
completed forms shall be made available to the Of-
fice of Internal Oversight Services at the request of 
the Director of the Office of Internal Oversight 
Services. Such system shall seek to identify and pre-
vent conflicts of interest by United Nations employ-
ees and shall be comparable to the system used for 
such purposes by the United States Government. 
Such report shall also address broader reforms of 
the ethics program for the United Nations, includ-
ing—
(A) the effect of the establishment of eth-
ics officers throughout all organizations within 
the United Nations;
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(B) the effect of retention by the UNEO of 
Annual Financial Disclosure Forms; 
(C) proposals for making completed An-
nual Financial Disclosure Forms available to 
the public on request through their Member 
State’s mission to the United Nations; 
(D) proposals for annual disclosure to the 
public of information related to the annual sala-
ries and payments, including pension payments 
and buyouts, of employees of the United Na-
tions, including employees of its specialized 
agencies, and of consultants; 
(E) proposals for annual disclosure to the 
public of information related to per diem rates 
for all bureaus, divisions, departments, or spe-
cialized agencies within the United Nations; 
(F) proposals for disclosure upon request 
by the Ambassador of a Member State of infor-
mation related to travel and per diem payments 
made from United Nations funds to any person; 
and 
(G) proposals for annual disclosure to the 
public of information related to travel and per 
diem rates and payments made from United 
Nations funds to any person.
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(d) CERTIFICATION OF UNITED NATIONS ESTAB-
LISHMENT OF POSITION OF CHIEF OPERATING OFFI-
CER.—In accordance with section 601, a certification shall 
be required that certifies that the following reforms re-
lated to the establishment of the position of a Chief Oper-
ating Officer have been adopted by the United Nations: 
(1) There is established the position of Chief 
Operating Officer (COO). The COO shall report to 
the Secretary General. 
(2) The COO shall be responsible for formu-
lating general policies and programs for the United 
Nations in coordination with the Secretary General 
and in consultation with the Security Council and 
the General Assembly. The COO shall be responsible 
for the daily administration, operation and super-
vision, and the direction and control of the business 
of the United Nations. The Chief Operating Officer 
shall also perform such other duties and may exer-
cise such other powers as from time to time may be 
assigned to the COO by the Secretary General. 
(e) CERTIFICATION OF ACCESS BY MEMBER STATES 
TO REPORTS
AND AUDITS
BY BOARD
OF EXTERNAL 
AUDITORS.—In accordance with section 601, a certifi-
cation shall be required that certifies that Member States
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may, upon request, have access to all reports and audits 
completed by the Board of External Auditors. 
(f) WAIVER OF IMMUNITY.—The President shall di-
rect 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 the 
Secretary General exercises the right and duty of the Sec-
retary General under section 20 of the Convention on the 
Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations to waive 
the immunity of any United Nations official in any case 
in which such immunity would impede the course of jus-
tice. In exercising such waiver, the Secretary General is 
urged to interpret the interests of the United Nations as 
favoring the investigation or prosecution of a United Na-
tions official who is credibly under investigation for having 
committed a serious criminal offense or who is credibly 
charged with a serious criminal offense. 
(g) CERTIFICATION OF UNITED NATIONS COOPERA-
TION RELATING TO OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM.—
(1) ACTIONS.—In accordance with section 601, 
a certification shall be required that certifies that 
the following actions relating to the oil-for-food pro-
gram have been taken by the United Nations: 
(A) The United Nations Secretary General 
has authorized the release to a law enforcement
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authority of any Member State (upon request 
by the permanent representative to the United 
Nations of such Member State on behalf of 
such law enforcement authority) or to a na-
tional legislative authority authentic copies of 
any document in the possession of the United 
Nations, including any document in the posses-
sion of a person who was engaged on a contract 
basis to provide goods or services to the United 
Nations, that in the judgment of such request-
ing law enforcement authority or national legis-
lative authority directly or indirectly concerns 
the oil-for-food program or a sanction imposed 
on Iraq related to the oil-for-food program. 
(B) The United Nations has waived any 
immunity enjoyed by any United Nations offi-
cial from the judicial process in the United 
States for any civil or criminal acts or omis-
sions under Federal or State law that may have 
transpired within the jurisdiction of the United 
States in connection with the oil-for-food pro-
gram. 
(2) DEFINITION.—As used in this subsection, 
the term ‘‘oil-for-food program’’ means the program 
established and administered pursuant to United
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Nations Security Council Resolution 986 (April 14, 
1995) and subsequent United Nations resolutions to 
permit the sale of petroleum products exported from 
Iraq and to use the revenue generated from such 
sale for humanitarian assistance. 
SEC. 105. TERRORISM 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 Nations to work toward adoption by the General 
Assembly of—
(1) a definition of terrorism that builds upon 
the recommendations of the Secretary General’s 
High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and 
Change, and 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 
(2) a comprehensive convention on terrorism 
that includes the definition described in paragraph 
(1).