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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Jul 21, 1993
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) pay urgent attention to persuading the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) to implement the recommendations contained in the March 1, 1993, report with prominent attention to the finding that the UN urgently needs the establishment of a strong and independent office of inspector general for the purposes of internal program and administrative audit and efficiency review; (2) seek to persuade other international organizations to establish independent inspectors general and take other steps to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse; and (3) include as a condition of new membership, or renewal of suspended membership, in any major international organization that the organization have effective program and administrative audits and efficiency reviews which are expeditiously provided to member states. Calls for: (1) the reports and findings of an inspector general to be fully available to member states; and (2) all program and administrative audit and efficiency reviews to be fully available to the governing bodies of such organizations.
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Rep. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME-2] · R–ME
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Referred to the Subcommittee on International Operations.
Referred to the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations and Human Rights.
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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