text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``United Nations Rapid Deployment 
  Police and Security Force Act of 2000''.
  
  SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
  
      The Congress finds the following:
              (1) United States Presidential Decision Directive 71 calls 
          for a stronger United States response to maintaining order in 
          societies recovering from conflict. It aims to improve 
          coordination of United States efforts and to enhance the 
          ability of other countries, the United Nations, and regional 
          organizations to plan, mount, and sustain operations in support 
          of the rule of law.
              (2) In a press briefing on February 24, 2000, Secretary of 
          State Madeleine Albright stated the following: ``The recent 
          slowness in deploying desperately needed civilian police to 
          Kosovo provides only the latest evidence that present 
          international capabilities are not adequate. And the ongoing 
          deployment of CIVPOL teams to East Timor and Sierra Leone show 
          that the need will not soon diminish. In response, we must 
          recognize that old models of peacekeeping don't always meet 
          current challenges. Peace operations today often require skills 
          that are neither strictly military nor strictly police but, 
          rather, a combination of the two. The international community 
          needs to identify and train units that are able to control 
          crowds, deter vigilante actions, prevent looting and disarm 
          civilian agitators while, at the same time, winning the trust 
          of the communities in which they are deployed.''.
              (3) In his April 2000 report, ``We the Peoples, The Role of 
          the United Nations in the 21st Century'', United Nations 
          Secretary General Kofi Annan states that only member nations of 
          the United Nations can fix the ``structural weakness of United 
          Nations peace operations . . . Our system for launching 
          operations has sometimes been compared to a volunteer fire 
          department, but that description is too generous. Every time 
          there is a fire, we must first find fire engines and the funds 
          to run them before we can start dousing any flames. The present 
          system relies almost entirely on last minute, ad hoc 
          arrangements that guarantee delay, with respect to the 
          provision of civilian personnel even more so than military. 
          Although we have understandings for military standby 
          arrangements with Member States, the availability of the 
          designated forces is unpredictable and very few are in a state 
          of high readiness. Resource constraints preclude us even from 
          being able to deploy a mission headquarters rapidly.''.
              (4) The December 1999 United Nations ``Report on the 
          Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations 
          During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda'' indicates that in April 
          1994, the United Nations Security Council failed to deploy 
          5,500 United Nations peacekeepers to Rwanda within two weeks of 
          the initial violence, thereby allowing the conflict to 
          escalate. The 6-month estimated cost of the deployment would 
          have been $115,000,000. Instead, the genocide consumed 800,000 
          lives along with $2,000,000,000 in humanitarian aid.
              (5) In Srebrenica, Bosnia, on July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb 
          troops forced the retreat of Dutch United Nations peacekeepers 
          who were part of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and 
          Herzegovina (UNMIBH) from a ``safe haven'', resulting in the 
          massacre of 7,000 Bosnian civilians and expulsion of 40,000 
          Bosnian civilians.
              (6) The United Nations peacekeeping budget estimate for the 
          United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina from July 1, 
          1997, to June 30, 1998, was $165,600,000, while the North 
          Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-sponsored intervention in 
          the Serbian province of Kosovo cost $37,000,000 per day.
              (7) In July 1999, 4,700 civilian police officers were 
          requested to be deployed to the Serbian province of Kosovo but, 
          as of April 17, 2000, the United Nations has deployed only 
          2,901 of the requested police officers, resulting in the 
          breakdown of law and order and the escalation of unrest in 
          Kosovo.
              (8) In May 2000, Revolutionary United Front rebels in 
          Sierra Leone, in violation of the ceasefire and peace accords, 
          captured and held prisoner approximately 500 United Nations 
          Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) peacekeepers. The weapons, 
          equipment, and vehicles of the peacekeepers were also seized. 
          The UNAMSIL force had been deployed too slowly and was 
          undertrained and understaffed, consisting of only 8,700 
          peacekeepers of the 11,000 peacekeepers requested by the United 
          Nations Security Council.
              (9) On February 24, 2000, the United Nations Security 
          Council approved a United States-sponsored proposal to send 
          5,537 troops on an observer mission to the Democratic Republic 
          of the Congo (to be known as the United Nations Organization 
          Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC)), a 
          Republic \1/3\ the size of the United States, to monitor the 
          implementation of the Lusaka accords. However, it will take at 
          least three months to deploy the required forces. On April 25, 
          2000, South African Foreign Minister Dlamini-Zuma urged rapid 
  deployment of the troops and stated ``[i]f deployment is very slow [the 
  accords] can fall apart . . . The troops should have been deployed a 
  long time ago.''.
              (10) The United States has the power in the United Nations 
          Security Council to veto decisions that are not within the 
          national interests of the United States.
  
  SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF A UNITED NATIONS RAPID DEPLOYMENT POLICE AND 
                SECURITY FORCE.
  
      (a) Establishment.--The President shall direct the United States 
  representative to the United Nations to use the voice, vote, and 
  influence of the United States to urge the United Nations--
              (1) to establish a United Nations Rapid Deployment Police 
          and Security Force that is rapidly deployable, under the 
          authority of the United Nations Security Council, and trained 
          to standardized objectives;
              (2) to recruit personnel to serve in this Force; and
              (3) to provide equitable and reliable funding for the 
          United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and Security Force.
      (b) Mission Statement.--The United Nations Rapid Deployment Police 
  and Security Force should have a mission statement that provides for 
  the following:
              (1) The United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and Security 
          Force will engage in operations when--
                      (A) the United Nations Security Council determines 
                  that an imminent threat to the peace requires a 
                  preventive deployment of forces and the Security 
                  Council deems it as an appropriate response;
                      (B) the United Nations Security Council determines 
                  ongoing gross violations of human rights or breaches of 
                  the peace require rapid intervention by the 
                  international community and the Security Council deems 
                  it as an appropriate response;
                      (C) peace has been restored to a region but the 
                  rule of law has not yet been reestablished and when 
                  national civilian police or United Nations member 
                  nations personnel are not available and the Security 
                  Council deems it as an appropriate response; or
                      (D) the United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and 
                  Security Force can utilize its personnel to help train 
                  the military and civilian police of member nations of 
                  the United Nations to better participate in 
                  international peace operations.
              (2) The United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and Security 
          Force will consist of not more than 6000 personnel who are--
                      (A) placed under the authority of the United 
                  Nations Security Council;
                      (B) under the direction of the Secretary General of 
                  the United Nations;
                      (C) deployed only by United Nations Security 
                  Council resolution;
                      (D) volunteers from United Nations member nations 
                  employed directly by the United Nations;
                      (E) trained as a single unit, appropriately 
                  equipped, expressly for international peace operations 
                  including civilian policing; and
                      (F) rapidly deployable.
              (3) The United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and Security 
          Force will be organized as a sub-department within the United 
          Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations or under the 
          control of the United Nations's Military Staff Committee and 
          will contain personnel trained as military staff officers and 
          civilian police officers to be deployed immediately to a 
          potential conflict area.
              (4) The deployment of the United Nations Rapid Deployment 
          Police and Security Force will be limited to a maximum of 6 
          months, at which time the Police and Security Force would be 
          replaced by personnel supplied by United Nations member 
          nations.
              (5) The basing and infrastructure service of the United 
          Nations Rapid Deployment Police and Security Force will be 
          leased from existing member nations' institutions.
  
  SEC. 5. REPORT ON UNITED NATIONS RAPID DEPLOYMENT POLICE AND SECURITY 
                FORCE.
  
      Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
  President shall prepare and transmit to the Congress a report on the 
  progress of negotiations with the United Nations and its member nations 
  regarding the creation of a United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and 
  Security Force described in section 3.
  
  SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS.
  
      In this Act:
              (1) The term ``international peace operations'' means--
                      (A) any such operation carried out under chapter VI 
                  or chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations; 
                  and
                      (B) any such United Nations operation that includes 
                  civilian policing.
              (2) The term ``rapidly deployable'' refers to the capacity 
          to deploy military or civilian personnel to a region undergoing 
          conflict within 15 days of the enactment of a United Nations 
          Security Council resolution authorizing a deployment.
target: Declares that the Force should have a mission statement that: (1) specifies when it will engage in operations, including when the Security Council determines that an imminent threat to the peace requires a preventive deployment or that ongoing gross violations of human rights or breaches of the peace require rapid intervention; (2) provides that the Force will consist of not more than 6,000 volunteers from UN member nations who will be deployed only by Security Council resolution; (3) provides that the Force will be organized as a sub-department within the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations or under the control of the UN's Military Staff Committee; (4) limits Force deployment to a maximum of six months; and (5) requires its basing and infrastructure service to be leased from existing member nations' institutions.
feat_title: United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and Security Force Act of 2000