[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3841 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 3841
To provide for the termination of all contracts between the United
Nations Department of Peace Operations and the Russian Federation, and
for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 15, 2022
Mr. Cassidy (for himself and Mrs. Blackburn) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations
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A BILL
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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