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

SEC. 702. REFORM IN THE BUDGET DECISION-MAKING PROCEDURES OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND ITS SPECIALIZED AGENCIES. (a) Findings.— The Congress finds that the consensus based decision-making procedure established by General Assembly Resolution 41/213 is a significant step toward complying with the intent of section 143 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (22 U.S.C. 287e note; 99 Stat. 405), as in effect before the date of enactment of this Act. (b) Reform.— Section 143 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (22 U.S.C. 287e note; 99 Stat. 405), is amended to read as follows: “SEC. 143. REFORM IN BUDGET DECISION-MAKING PROCEDURES OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND ITS SPECIALIZED AGENCIES. “(a) Financial Responsibility in Budget Procedures.— To achieve greater financial responsibility in preparation of the assessed budgets of the United Nations and its specialized agencies, the President should continue vigorous efforts to secure implementation by the United Nations, and adoption and implementation by its specialized agencies, of decision-making procedures on budgetary matters which assures 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. “(b) Limitation on Assessed Contributions.— 101 STAT. 1387 “(1) With respect to United States assessed contributions to the United Nations for each calendar year beginning with calendar year 1987— “(A) 40 percent of the United States assessed contributions may be paid beginning on October 1 of such calendar year; “(B) 40 percent of the United States assessed contributions may be paid when the President has determined and so reported to the Congress that— “(i) the consensus based decision-making procedure established by General Assembly Resolution 41/213 is being implemented and its results respected by the General Assembly; “(ii) progress is being made toward the 50 percent limitation on seconded employees of the Secretariat as called for by 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 “(iii) the 15 percent reduction in the staff of the Secretariat (recommendations 55 and 57 of the Group of 18) is being implemented and that such reduction is being equitably applied among the nationals on such staff; and “(C) 20 percent of the United States assessed contributions may be paid beginning on a date which is 30 days after receipt by the Congress of the report described in subparagraph (B) unless the Congress within such 30-day period enacts, in accordance with subsection (c), a joint resolution prohibiting the payment of the remaining 20 percent of such funds. “(2) In the case that the amount appropriated for United States assessed contributions to the United Nations for a calendar year is less than the full amount of such United States assessed contributions for that year, the final one-fifth of the amount appropriated may only be paid— “(A) after the President has made the determinations and report specified in paragraph (1)(B); and “(B) beginning on a date which is 30 days after receipt by the Congress of the report referred to in subparagraph (A) unless the Congress within such 30-day period enacts, in accordance with subsection (c), a joint resolution prohibiting the payment of the remaining one-fifth of such funds. “(3) For each calendar year beginning with calendar year 1987, no payment may be made of an assessed contribution by the United States to any of the specialized agencies of the United Nations if such payment would cause the United States share of the total assessed budget for such agency to exceed 20 percent in any calendar year unless the President determines and so reports to the Congress that such agency has made substantial progress toward the adoption and implementation of decision-making procedures on budgetary matters in a manner that substantially achieves the greater financial responsibility referred to in subsection (a). “(4) Subject to the availability of appropriations, when the presidential determinations referred to in paragraphs (1)(B), (2), and (3) have been made, payment of assessed contributions for 101 STAT. 1388prior years may be made to the United Nations or its specialized agencies (as the case may be) without regard to the contribution limitation contained in this section prior to its being amended by the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989. “(c) Definition and Procedures.— “(1) (A) The provisions of this subsection shall apply to the introduction and consideration in the Senate of a joint resolution described in subsections (b)(1)(C) and (b)(2). “(B) For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘joint resolution’ means only a joint resolution introduced within 3 days after the date on which the report of the President described in subsection (b)(1)(B) is received by Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: ‘That the payment to the United Nations of those contributions described in section 143(b)(1)(C) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987, is prohibited’. “(2) A joint resolution introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. Such a joint resolution may not be reported before the 8th day after its introduction. “(3) If the committee to which is referred a joint resolution has not reported such joint resolution (or an identical joint resolution) at the end of 15 days after its introduction, such committee shall be deemed to be discharged from further consideration of such joint resolution and such joint resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar of the Senate. “(4) (A) When the committee to which a joint resolution is referred has reported, or has been deemed to be discharged (under paragraph (3)) from further consideration of, a joint resolution, it is at any time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) for any Member of the Senate to move to proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution, and all points of order against the joint resolution (and against consideration of the joint resolution) are waived. The motion is privileged in the Senate and is not debatable. The motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution is agreed to, the joint resolution shall remain the unfinished business of the Senate until disposed of. “(B) In the Senate, debate on the joint resolution, and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the joint resolution. A motion further to limit debate is in order and not debatable. An amendment to or a motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business, or a motion to recommit the joint resolution is not in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the joint resolution is agreed to or disagreed to is not in order. “(C) Immediately following the conclusion of the debate on a joint resolution, and a single quorum call at the conclusion of the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of the 101 STAT. 1389Senate, the vote on final passage of the joint resolution shall occur. “(D) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the Rules of the Senate to the procedure relating to a joint resolution shall be decided without debate. “(5) If, before the passage by the Senate of a joint resolution of the Senate, the Senate receives from the House of Representatives a joint resolution, then the following procedures shall apply: “(A) The joint resolution of the House of Representatives shall not be referred to a committee. “(B) With respect to a joint resolution of the Senate— “(i) the procedure in the Senate shall be the same as if no joint resolution had been received from the House of Representatives; but “(ii) the vote on final passage shall be on the joint resolution of the House of Representatives. “(6) This subsection is enacted by the Congress— “(A) as an exercise of rulemaking power of the Senate, and as such it is deemed a part of the rules of the Senate, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in the Senate in the case of a joint resolution, and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with such rules; and “(B) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the Senate to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of the Senate) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the Senate.”. (c) Conforming Amendment.— The table of contents in section 1 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (22 U.S.C. 287e note; 99 Stat. 405) is amended by striking out the item relating to section 143 and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “Sec. 143. Reform in the budget decision-making procedures of the United Nations and its specialized agencies.”. (d) Termination Date.— This section shall terminate on September 30, 1989.