Roscoe Bartlett: “Mr. Chairman, I have here a report from the GAO. This report was requested by Senator Dole, and he asked them to make an…”

“Mr. Chairman, I have here a report from the GAO. This report was requested by Senator Dole, and he asked them to make an assessment of the peacekeeping costs incurred by the United States, and let me read the criteria for preparing this report. It says: ``Dear Senator Dole: As requested, we are providing you information on U.S. agencies' estimated costs for their support of U.N. peace operations in Haiti, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Somalia.'' This does not include flights over Iraq, note, and it does not include Bosnia. This includes only fiscal years '92 through '95. ``For this report we define peace operations as actions taken in support of U.N. resolutions.'' These only include our participation when there was a U.N. resolution ``designed to further peace and security, including observers; monitors; traditional peacekeeping; preventive deployment; peace enforcement; security assistance; the imposition of sanctions; and the provision, protection and delivery of humanitarian relief.'' The GAO report indicated that through years 1992 to 1995 we had spent on peacekeeping $6.6 billion.”