July 26, 2005

Foreign Affairs

Rhode Island Senators on UN Reform - ???

Carroll Andrew Morse

I’ve put calls into both Senator Reed’s and Senator’s Chafee’s office inquiring about their positions on the UN reform proposals in Congress. There are basically 3 possible positions…

1. The “Hyde-Pence” position – Congress should pass a list of objective reform criteria and automatically cut some portion of UN funding if the criteria are not met.
2. The “Coleman-Lugar” position – Congress should pass a list of reform criteria, then leave it to the discretion of the President if funding is to be cut if the criteria are not met.
3. The position that tying funding cuts to reform is too harsh a position to be considered.

I will let you know our Senate delegation's position on this matter as soon as it becomes available to me.

6:32 PM