Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of State should withhold United States contributions to the regularly assessed biennial budget of the United Nations for purposes of the General Assembly of the United...

H.RES.297
Introduced: 
June 3, 2011
112
First
June 3, 2011
Referred to House (sub)committee

No cosponsors

Chabot is chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia which has jurisdiction over bills relating to the Middle East. Remarking on this resolution Chabot said that UN recognition of a Palestinian state would be ‘one more irritant’ in the Middle East, and that the goal of introducing this resolution was to have the Palestinians back down from their statehood push or to have the General Assembly indicate that it would not consider the PA’s application.

More on cutting assistance to the UN over statehood: H.R. 2261 of 6/21/11, S. Amdt. 949 to H.R. 2354 of 6/24/11, H.R. 2457 of 7/7/11, H.R. 2829 of 8/30/11, S. 1595 of 9/21/11, S. 1848 of 11/10/11, and S. 1860 of 11/14/11

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