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Key Issues

In 2012, BWC will build support for U.S. policies that reinforce and renew U.S. engagement in the UN and educate people about the real benefits the U.S. receives through our relationships with the UN. We will work with the Administration and Congress on the range of issues listed below, so the UN can better address the global challenges of the 21st century:

  • Payment of our nation’s UN regular budget and peacekeeping dues on time, in full, and without conditions, the removal of the Congressionally imposed arbitrary peacekeeping cap, and the reversal of the 1980s budget gimmick of paying U.S. dues a year late;
  • Greater support for UN peacekeeping operations in places such as Haiti and South Sudan and U.S. assistance in managing the historic expansion of peacekeeping by working with the UN to develop its capabilities in logistics, training, doctrine, and management expertise;
  • Increased awareness about the work being performed by UN specialized agencies around the world and support for fully funding their crucial mandates;
  • Constructive engagement on structural and management reforms at the UN and the continued implementation of ongoing reforms;
  • Continued U.S. participation in the UN Human Rights Council;
  • Advancement of the Millennium Development Goals;
  • Senate passage of key international agreements that we have signed but not ratified, such as the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.