Congress: 105 · Status: active · Israel/Palestine classification: pro-Israel
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Sponsor: Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (D-NY)
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) it should be U.S. policy to support Israel's efforts to enter an appropriate United Nations (UN) regional group; (2) the President should instruct the U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN to carry out this policy; (3) the United States should insist that any effort to reform the UN, including the Security Council, also resolve this anomaly and should ensure that the principle of sovereign equality be upheld without exception; and (4) the Secretary of State should submit a report to the Congress on the steps taken by the United States, the UN Secretary General, and others to help secure Israel's membership in an appropriate UN regional group.
The Senate expresses its view that the US should push for Israel to join a UN regional group (Israel currently lacks membership in any regional caucus at the UN). The resolution directs the President to instruct the US UN Ambassador to advocate for Israel's inclusion and requires the State Department to report back to Congress on steps taken toward this goal. The resolution also ties any future UN reform, including Security Council changes, to resolving Israel's regional group status.
This is a non-binding Senate resolution, but it signals support for elevating Israel's institutional standing at the UN and commits the executive branch to active diplomatic advocacy on Israel's behalf in multilateral forums. The requirement for State Department reporting creates oversight pressure to prioritize this objective.