Withdrawing Russian Support to Peacekeeping Act of 2022
Bill: S.3841 | Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill (R-LA)
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Withdrawing Russian Support to Peacekeeping Act of 2022
This bill requires U.S. representatives to the United Nations to instruct the U.N.'s Department of Peace Operations (DPO) to (1) direct peacekeepers from Russia to depart from all U.N. peacekeeping missions, and (2) terminate contracts with Russian individuals and entities. If the DPO has not complied with these instructions within a certain time period, the Department of State must withhold funds from the DPO until there is compliance.

To provide for the termination of all contracts between the United 
Nations Department of Peace Operations and the Russian Federation, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Withdrawing Russian Support to 
Peacekeeping Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Between 2020 and 2021, the United States provided 27.89 
        percent of funding to the United Nations Department of Peace 
        Operations (referred to in this Act as the ``DPO'').
            (2) As of 2020, approximately 9,000 police peacekeepers 
        from the Russian Federation were deployed in 16 peacekeeping 
        and special political missions of the United Nations.
            (3) The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation 
        represents one of the most serious assaults on world peace in 
        recent years.
            (4) The use of the term ``peacekeeping'' by the Russian 
        Federation to justify the incursion into Donetsk and Luhansk, 
        Ukraine, which escalated into a full invasion of Ukraine, flies 
        in the face of real peacekeeping.

SEC. 3. TERMINATION OF PEACEKEEPING CONTRACTS WITH THE RUSSIAN 
              FEDERATION.

    (a) In General.--The Assistant Secretary of State for International 
Organization Affairs shall use the voice, vote, and influence of the 
United States to instruct the DPO, not later than 45 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act--
            (1) to terminate all contracts with individuals of and 
        entities registered in the Russian Federation; and
            (2) to direct all police, military, and civilian 
        peacekeepers from the Russian Federation to depart from all 
        peacekeeping missions of the United Nations.
    (b) Compliance.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 45 days after the date that 
        the instruction described in subsection (a) is given, the 
        Secretary of State shall determine whether the DPO has complied 
        with the instruction.
            (2) Withholding of funds.--If the Secretary of State 
        determines under paragraph (1) that the DPO has not complied 
        with the instruction described in subsection (a), the Secretary 
        of State shall withhold funds from the DPO until the Secretary 
        of State determines that the DPO has complied with the 
        instruction.
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