To withhold amounts available for contributions to the regular assessed budget of the United Nations unless certain requirements relating to the transfer and public availability of the complete archive of files of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Oil-for-Food Program are met.

Directs the Secretary of State to withhold $100 million from each of the FY2007-FY2009 contributions to the regular assessed budget of the United Nations until the Secretary certifies to Congress that the following requirements have been met: (1) the complete archive of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Oil-for-Food Program has been transferred by the Committee or the United Nations to an entity other than the Committee or the United Nations; (2) such archive is made available for public inspection for at least five years as a research resource into the history of the Oil-for-Food Program and the practices of the Saddam Hussein regime; and (3) the United Nations has foregone any censorial control over such archive.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4369 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4369

To withhold amounts available for contributions to the regular assessed 
 budget of the United Nations unless certain requirements relating to 
 the transfer and public availability of the complete archive of files 
of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Oil-for-Food Program are 
                                  met.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 2005

   Mr. Hyde introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To withhold amounts available for contributions to the regular assessed 
 budget of the United Nations unless certain requirements relating to 
 the transfer and public availability of the complete archive of files 
of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Oil-for-Food Program are 
                                  met.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. WITHHOLDING OF AMOUNTS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED 
              NATIONS REGULAR ASSESSED BUDGET.

    For each of the fiscal years 2007, 2008, and 2009, of the amounts 
available for a contribution to the regular assessed budget of the 
United Nations, the Secretary of State shall withhold $100,000,000 of 
such contribution for each such fiscal year until the Secretary 
certifies to Congress that the following requirements have been met:
            (1) The complete archive of files of the Independent 
        Inquiry Committee into the Oil-for-Food Program have been 
        transferred by the Committee or the United Nations to an entity 
        other than the Committee or the United Nations.
            (2) The contents of such archive are made available for 
        public inspection (to include access by United States 
        Government entities, including Federal, State, and local law 
        enforcement authorities) for a period of not less than five 
        years from the date of the transfer as a resource for research 
        into the history of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program and 
        the practices of the Saddam Hussein regime.
            (3) The United Nations has foregone any editorial or 
        censorial control over the contents of such archive prior or 
        subsequent to such transfer.
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