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Calendar No. 48
118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 682
To provide for the treatment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) as an international organization for purposes of the Inter-
national Organizations Immunities Act, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH7, 2023
Mr. M
ENENDEZ(for himself, Mr. RISCH, Ms. DUCKWORTH, and Mr. ROM-
NEY) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to
the Committee on Foreign Relations
M
AY4, 2023
Reported by Mr. M
ENENDEZ, with an amendment
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
A BILL
To provide for the treatment of the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an international organization
for purposes of the International Organizations Immuni-
ties Act, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION1.SHORTTITLE. 1
ThisActmaybecitedasthe‘‘ProvidingAppropriate 2
RecognitionandTreatmentNeededtoEnhanceRelations 3
withASEANAct’’orthe‘‘PARTNERwithASEANAct’’. 4
SEC.2.STATEMENT OFPOLICYONDEEPENING COOPERA-5
TIONWITHASEAN. 6
ItisthepolicyoftheUnitedStates— 7
(1)toreaffirmtheUnitedStates-ASEANCom-8
prehensiveStrategicPartnership,establishedin 9
2022following45yearsofDialoguePartnership; 10
(2)toenhanceUnitedStates-ASEANcoopera-11
tioninsupportofanopen,transparent,resilient,in-12
clusiveandrules-basedregionalarchitectureinthe 13
Indo-Pacific; 14
(3)tosupportregular,high-levelUnitedStates 15
officialengagementwithASEAN,includingthepar-16
ticipationintheannualASEANSummitheldeach 17
year; 18
(4)toenhancecooperationwithASEANmem-19
berstatesaswellaswiththeinstitutionofASEAN 20
andtheASEANSecretariat,includingthroughthe 21
UnitedStatesMissiontoASEAN,ledbytheUnited 22
StatesAmbassadortoASEAN;and 23
(5)towelcomethedecisionin-principleby 24
ASEANtoadmitTimor-LestetobeASEAN’s11th 25
memberstateandtoencourageUnitedStatessup-26
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porttoTimor-Lesteinitscapacityasanofficial 1
ASEANobserver. 2
SEC.3.SENSEOFCONGRESS ONTHEESTABLISHMENT OF 3
ANASEAN DELEGATION TOTHEUNITED 4
STATES. 5
ItisthesenseofCongressthatitisintheUnited 6
Statesinteresttoencouragetheestablishment,attheear-7
liestopportunity,ofanASEANdelegationtotheUnited 8
States,toenhancecooperationbetweenASEANandthe 9
UnitedStatesatalllevels. 10
SEC.4.EXTENSION OFDIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES TOTHE 11
ASSOCIATION OFSOUTHEAST ASIAN NA-12
TIONS. 13
TheprovisionsoftheInternationalOrganizationsIm-14
munitiesAct(22U.S.C.288etseq.)maybeextendedto 15
theAssociationofSoutheastAsianNationsinthesame 16
manner,tothesameextent,andsubjecttothesamecon-17
ditionsassuchprovisionsmaybeextendedtoapublic 18
internationalorganizationinwhichtheUnitedStatespar-19
ticipatespursuanttoanytreatyorundertheauthority 20
ofanyActofCongressauthorizingsuchparticipationor 21
makinganappropriationforsuchparticipation. 22
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Providing Appropriate 2
Recognition and Treatment Needed to Enhance Relations 3
with ASEAN Act’’ or the ‘‘PARTNER with ASEAN Act’’. 4
SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY ON DEEPENING COOPERA-5
TION WITH ASEAN. 6
It is the policy of the United States— 7
(1) to reaffirm the United States-ASEAN Com-8
prehensive Strategic Partnership, established in 2022 9
following 45 years of Dialogue Partnership; 10
(2) to enhance United States-ASEAN coopera-11
tion in support of an open, transparent, resilient, in-12
clusive and rules-based regional architecture in the 13
Indo-Pacific; 14
(3) to support regular, high-level United States 15
official engagement with ASEAN, including the par-16
ticipation in the annual ASEAN Summit held each 17
year; 18
(4) to enhance cooperation with ASEAN member 19
states, as appropriate, as well as with the institution 20
of ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat, including 21
through the United States Mission to ASEAN, led by 22
the United States Ambassador to ASEAN; and 23
(5) to welcome the decision in-principle by 24
ASEAN to admit Timor-Leste to be ASEAN’s 11th 25
member state and to encourage United States support 26
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to Timor-Leste in its capacity as an official ASEAN 1
observer. 2
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF 3
AN ASEAN DELEGATION TO THE UNITED 4
STATES. 5
It is the sense of Congress that— 6
(1) it is in the United States interest to encour-7
age the establishment, at the earliest opportunity, of 8
an ASEAN delegation to the United States, to en-9
hance cooperation between ASEAN and the United 10
States at all levels; and 11
(2) the establishment of an ASEAN center in the 12
United States would support United States economic 13
and cultural engagement with Southeast Asia. 14
SEC. 4. EXTENSION OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES TO THE 15
ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NA-16
TIONS. 17
The provisions of the International Organizations Im-18
munities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 et seq.) may be extended to 19
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the same 20
manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same condi-21
tions as such provisions may be extended to a public inter-22
national organization in which the United States partici-23
pates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any 24
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Act of Congress authorizing such participation or making 1
an appropriation for such participation. 2
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CONGRESS
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ST
S
ESSION
S. 682 A BILL
To provide for the treatment of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an inter-
national organization for purposes of the Inter-
national Organizations Immunities Act, and for
other purposes.
M
AY
4, 2023
Reported with an amendment
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