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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 1243
5	5	To prohibit United States assistance to foreign countries that oppose the
6	6	position of the United States in the United Nations.
7	7	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
8	8	FEBRUARY12, 2025
9	9	Mr. D
10	10	AVIDSON(for himself, Mr. WEBERof Texas, and Mr. BIGGSof Arizona)
11	11	introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
12	12	Foreign Affairs
13	13	A BILL
14	14	To prohibit United States assistance to foreign countries
15	15	that oppose the position of the United States in the
16	16	United Nations.
17	17	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
18	18	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
19	19	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
20	20	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United Nations Voting 4
21	21	Accountability Act of 2025’’. 5
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25	25	SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES THAT 1
26	26	OPPOSE THE POSITION OF THE UNITED 2
27	27	STATES IN THE UNITED NATIONS. 3
28	28	(a) P
29	29	ROHIBITION.—United States assistance may not 4
30	30	be provided to a country that opposed the position of the 5
31	31	United States in the United Nations. 6
32	32	(b) E
33	33	XEMPTIONDUE TOCHANGE IN GOVERN-7
34	34	MENT.— 8
35	35	(1) I
36	36	N GENERAL.—The Secretary of State may 9
37	37	exempt a country from the prohibition described in 10
38	38	subsection (a) if the Secretary determines that since 11
39	39	the beginning of the most recent session of the Gen-12
40	40	eral Assembly— 13
41	41	(A) there has been a fundamental change 14
42	42	in the leadership and policies of the government 15
43	43	of a country to which the prohibition in such 16
44	44	subsection applies; and 17
45	45	(B) as a result of such change, the govern-18
46	46	ment of such country will no longer oppose the 19
47	47	position of the United States in the United Na-20
48	48	tions. 21
49	49	(2) D
50	50	URATION OF EXEMPTION .—An exemption 22
51	51	under paragraph (1) shall be effective only until sub-23
52	52	mission of the next report required under section 24
53	53	406 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fis-25
54	54	cal Years 1990 and 1991 (22 U.S.C. 2414a) that is 26
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58	58	submitted after the Secretary of State makes such 1
59	59	an exemption. 2
60	60	(3) N
61	61	OTIFICATION AND DISCUSSION .—The Sec-3
62	62	retary of State shall notify Congress with respect to 4
63	63	an exemption made under paragraph (1), together 5
64	64	with a discussion of the basis for the Secretary’s de-6
65	65	termination with respect to each such exemption. 7
66	66	(c) D
67	67	EFINITIONS.—As used in this Act— 8
68	68	(1) the term ‘‘opposed the position of the 9
69	69	United States’’ means, in the case of a country, that 10
70	70	the country’s recorded votes in the United Nations 11
71	71	General Assembly during the most recent session of 12
72	72	the General Assembly and, in the case of a country 13
73	73	which is a member of the United Nations Security 14
74	74	Council, the country’s recorded votes both in the Se-15
75	75	curity Council and the General Assembly during the 16
76	76	most recent session of the General Assembly, were 17
77	77	the same as the position of the United States less 18
78	78	than 50 percent of the time, using for this purpose 19
79	79	a comparison of the recorded vote cast by each mem-20
80	80	ber country with the recorded vote cast by the 21
81	81	United States, as described in the annual report 22
82	82	submitted to Congress pursuant to section 406 of 23
83	83	the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 24
84	84	Years 1990 and 1991; 25
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88	88	(2) the term ‘‘most recent session of the Gen-1
89	89	eral Assembly’’ means the most recently completed 2
90	90	plenary session of the General Assembly for which a 3
91	91	comparison of the vote cast by each member country 4
92	92	with the vote cast by the United States is described 5
93	93	in the most recent report submitted to Congress 6
94	94	pursuant to section 406 of the Foreign Relations 7
95	95	Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991; and 8
96	96	(3) the term ‘‘United States assistance’’ means 9
97	97	assistance under— 10
98	98	(A) chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign As-11
99	99	sistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2346 et seq.; 12
100	100	relating to the economic support fund); 13
101	101	(B) chapter 5 of part II of such Act (22 14
102	102	U.S.C. 2347 et seq.; relating to international 15
103	103	military education and training); 16
104	104	(C) the ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Pro-17
105	105	gram’’ account under section 23 of the Arms 18
106	106	Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763); and 19
107	107	(D) any other monetary or physical assist-20
108	108	ance. 21
109	109	(d) E
110	110	FFECTIVEDATE.—This Act shall take effect 22
111	111	upon the date of the submission to Congress of the report 23
112	112	required under section 406 of the Foreign Relations Au-24
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116	116	thorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991, that is re-1
117	117	quired to be submitted by March 31, 2026. 2
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