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Full committee business meeting to consider:

Conservation

• S.618, to establish the United States Foundation for International Conservation to promote long-term management of protected and conserved areas

Iran

• S.1829, to impose sanctions with respect to persons engaged in the import of petroleum from the Islamic Republic of Iran
• S.2626, to impose sanctions with respect to the Supreme Leader of Iran and the President of Iran and their respective offices for human rights abuses and support for terrorism
• S.2336, to address the threat from the development of Iran’s ballistic missile program and the transfer or deployment of Iranian missiles and related goods and technology, including materials and equipment
• S.3235, to require a strategy to counter the role of the People’s Republic of China in evasion of sanctions imposed by the United States with respect to Iran

Israel

• S.3874, to impose sanctions with respect to foreign support for terrorist organizations in Gaza and the West Bank
• S.Res.505, condemning the use of sexual violence and rape as a weapon of war by the terrorist group Hamas against the people of Israel

Other Bills

• S.3854, to combat transnational repression abroad, to strengthen tools to combat authoritarianism, corruption, and kleptocracy, to invest in democracy research and development
• S.1651, to encourage increased trade and investment between the United States and the countries in the Western Balkans
• S.138, to amend the Tibetan Policy Act of 2002 to modify certain provisions of that Act
• S.1881, to reauthorize and amend the Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act of 2018 and the Reinforcing Nicaragua’s Adherence to Conditions for Electoral Reform Act of 2021

Other Resolutions

• S.Res.357, recognizing the formation of the Alliance for Development in Democracy and urging the United States to pursue deeper ties with its member countries
• S.Res.385, calling for the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich, a United States citizen and journalist, who was wrongfully detained by the Government of the Russian Federation in March 2023
• S.Con.Res.18, calling for the immediate release of Marc Fogel, a United States citizen and teacher, who was given an unjust and disproportionate criminal sentence by the Government of the Russian Federation in June 2022

Department of State Nominations:

• Stephanie Sanders Sullivan, of Maryland, to be Representative of the United States of America to the African Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador
• Pamela M. Tremont, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe
• Elizabeth Rood, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to Turkmenistan
• Richard H. Riley IV, of California, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia
• David J. Kostelancik, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Albania
• Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia
• Stephan A. Lang, of Virginia, to be U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, with the rank of Ambassador
• Jennifer M. Adams, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cabo Verde
• Courtney Diesel O’Donnell, of California, to be United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, with the rank of Ambassador
• Dorothy Camille Shea, of North Carolina, to be Deputy Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador and the Deputy Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations, and to be Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during her tenure of service as Deputy Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations
• Dafna Hochman Rand, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
• Arthur W. Brown, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador
• Richard Mills, Jr., of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria
• Mark Toner, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia, all of the Department of State

International Development Nominations:

• Andrew William Plitt, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development
• Richard L.A. Weiner, of the District of Columbia, to be United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Elizabeth Shortino, of the District of Columbia, to be United States Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund