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 104 STAT. 66 PUBLIC LAW 101-246—FEB. 16, 1990 (ii) is implementing the 15 percent reduction in the staff of the United Nations Secretariat (recommendation 15 of the Group of High Level Intergovernmental Experts to Review the Efficiency of the Administrative and Financial Functioning of the United Nations (Group of 18)) and that such reduction is being equitably applied among the nationals on such staff. (2) The President shall notify the Congress when each such determination is made. Each such notification shall include appropriate consultation between the President or his designated representative and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. 22 USC 2414a. SEC. 406. ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS ON VOTING PRACTICES AT THE UNITED NATIONS. (a) IN GENERAL.— Not later than March 31 of each year, the Secretary of State shall transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a full and complete annual report which assesses for the preceding calendar year, with respect to each foreign country member of the United Nations, the voting practices of the governments of such countries at the United Nations, and which evaluates General Assembly and Security Council actions and the responsiveness of those governments to United States policy on issues of special importance to the United States. (b) INFORMATION ON VOTING PRACTICES IN THE UNITED NATIONS.— Such report shall include, with respect to voting practices and plenary actions in the United Nations during the preceding calendar year, information to be compiled and supplied by the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, consisting of— (1) an analysis and discussion, prepared in consultation with the Secretary of State, of the extent to which member countries supported United States policy objectives at the United Nations; (2) an analysis and discussion, prepared in consultation with the Secretary of State, of actions taken by the United Nations by consensus; (3) with respect to plenary votes of the United Nations General Assembly— (A) a listing of all such votes on issues which directly affected important United States interests and on which the United States lobbied extensively and a brief description of the issues involved in each such vote; (B) a listing of the votes described in subparagraph (A) which provides a comparison of the vote cast by each member country with the vote csist by the United States; (C) a country-by-country listing of votes described in subparagraph (A); and (D) a listing of votes described in subparagraph (A) displayed in terms of United Nations regional caucus groups; (4) a listing of all plenary votes cast by member countries of the United Nations in the General Assembly which provides a comparison of the votes cast by each member country with the vote cast by the United States; (5) an analysis and discussion, prepared in consultation with the Secretary of State, of the extent to which other members

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