[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 137 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 137

 To enhance United States efforts to stem the proliferation of weapons 
                          of mass destruction.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1993

  Mr. Berman submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 To enhance United States efforts to stem the proliferation of weapons 
                          of mass destruction.

Whereas the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is among the most grave 
        national security challenges the United States faces;
Whereas President Clinton has stated that preventing the spread of such weapons 
        will be a chief priority of United States foreign and national security 
        policy;
Whereas, as part of that policy, the United States will seek the indefinite 
        extension of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, an 
        issue to be decided in 1995 by a conference of the parties to the 
        Treaty;
Whereas the negotiation of a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, long 
        considered a key milestone in global efforts to halt the spread of 
        nuclear weapons, will greatly assist the United States in achieving the 
        indefinite extension of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 
        Weapons;
Whereas the United States committed itself in the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon 
        Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water (done at Moscow, 
        August 1963) to seek ``to achieve the discontinuance of all test 
        explosions of nuclear weapons for all time, determined to continue 
        negotiations to this end'';
Whereas in 1992 Congress enacted legislation requiring a nuclear testing 
        moratorium until July 1, 1993, and an end to all testing by September 
        1996;
Whereas President Clinton announced on July 30, 1993, that the United States 
        will continue the moratorium for at least 15 more months unless another 
        country resumes testing, and will pursue multilateral negotiations on a 
        comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty;
Whereas, prior to this announcement, the House of Representatives had passed 
        legislation that would appropriate $120,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 to 
        conduct nuclear tests;
Whereas the program of safeguards on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy 
        administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency serves as the 
        frontline in preventing the diversion of nuclear material for weapons 
        purposes;
Whereas the safeguard responsibilities of the International Atomic Energy Agency 
        have grown sharply in recent years as a result of the increase in the 
        number of parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 
        Weapons, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the nonproliferation 
        undertakings of Argentina, Brazil, and South Africa;
Whereas for a decade the United States has paid its assessed contribution to the 
        International Atomic Energy Agency at the end of the calendar year in 
        which it is due, complicating the International Atomic Energy Agency's 
        ability to fulfill its obligations;
Whereas, as a result of the fall of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe and 
        the breakup of the Soviet Union, successor governments have lacked 
        adequate export controls over the possible outflow of dual use 
        technology related to the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction;
Whereas the United States is an original signatory of the Convention on the 
        Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of 
        Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (hereinafter in this 
        resolution referred to as the ``Chemical Weapons Convention'') which 
        bans the possession of chemical weapons; and
Whereas an international preparatory commission has been established to complete 
        all the work necessary to bring the Chemical Weapons Convention into 
        force in January 1996: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),

SECTION 1. ENDING NUCLEAR TESTING.

    The Congress--
            (1) commends the President for his decision to continue the 
        moratorium on nuclear testing; and
            (2) encourages the President to begin preparations 
        expeditiously for multilateral negotiations on a comprehensive 
        nuclear test ban treaty.

SEC. 2. EXTENDING THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY.

    The Congress strongly shares the view that the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is an essential component of 
international security and should be extended indefinitely in 1995.

SEC. 3. REALLOCATING NUCLEAR TESTING FUNDS.

    It is the sense of the Congress that amounts that would have been 
made available to conduct nuclear tests during fiscal year 1994 should 
be reallocated as follows:
            (1) $50,000,000 should be made available to enable the 
        United States to pay its assessed contributions to the 
        International Atomic Energy Agency earlier in that agency's 
        fiscal year.
            (2) $16,000,000 should be made available for the United 
        States assessed contribution for the preparatory commission of 
        the Chemical Weapons Convention.
            (3) $30,000,000 should be made available through a 
        nonproliferation fund to assist the emerging democracies in 
        Eastern Europe and the independent states of the former Soviet 
        Union in developing an adequate system of export controls.
            (4) $4,000,000 should be made available for the Reduced 
        Enrichment in Research and Test Reactors Program.

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