REFORM IN BUDGET DECISION-MAKING PROCEDURES OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND ITS SPECIALIZED AGENCIES.

SEC. 405. REFORM IN BUDGET DECISION-MAKING PROCEDURES OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND ITS SPECIALIZED AGENCIES. (a) Findings.— (1) The Congress finds that the United Nations and its specialized agencies have made progress in the formulation and implementation of budget reforms as called for by section 143 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (Public Law 99–93). Presidential determinations that were required by that and other laws confirm the progress that has been made in this respect. (2) The Congress remains concerned about the need to make further progress to protect the independence of the international civil service working at the United Nations and urges the President to make vigorous efforts to this end. (3) The Congress is specifically concerned with the practice of reserving certain professional staff slots in the United Nations Secretariat for nationals of certain member states, and urges the President to pursue vigorously a program of regular rotation in these staff positions among all member states of the United Nations. (b) Financial Responsibility in Budget Procedures.— To assure financial responsibility in preparation of the assessed budgets of the United Nations and its specialized agencies, it is the sense of the Congress that the President should continue vigorous efforts to ensure continued implementation by the United Nations and its specialized agencies of consensus-based decision-making procedures where applicable on budgetary matters which assure that sufficient attention is paid to the views of the United States and other member states who are major financial contributors to such assessed budgets. (c) Limitation on Assessed Contributions.— (1) For assessed contributions authorized to be appropriated by section 102(a)(1) of this Act, the President shall withhold 20 percent of the funds appropriated for the United States assessed contribution to the United Nations or to any of its specialized agencies for any calendar year until the President determines and reports to the Congress that the United Nations or any such agency— (A) has continued implementation of decision-making procedures on budgetary matters referred to in subsection (b); and (B) in the case of the United Nations— (i) is making further progress toward the elimination of the abuse of secondment in the United Nations Secretariat which undermines the independence of the international civil service; and 104 STAT. 66 (ii) is implementing the 15 percent reduction in the staff of the United Nations Secretariat (recommendation 15 of the Group of High Level Intergovernmental Experts to Review the Efficiency of the Administrative and Financial Functioning of the United Nations (Group of 18)) and that such reduction is being equitably applied among the nationals on such staff. (2) The President shall notify the Congress when each such determination is made. Each such notification shall include appropriate consultation between the President or his designated representative and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.