[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 142 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 142

 Respecting actions to be taken by the Security Council of the United 
                         Nations in Yugoslavia.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 13, 1993

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

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Respecting actions to be taken by the Security Council of the United 
                         Nations in Yugoslavia.

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 743, approved February 21, 
        1992, establishes a United Nations Protection Force in accordance with 
        the report of the Secretary General of the United Nations made pursuant 
        to Security Council Resolution 721;
Whereas such report of the Secretary General states ``a United Nations 
        peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia would be an interim arrangement to 
        create the conditions of peace and security required for the negotiation 
        of an overall settlement of the Yugoslav crisis'';
Whereas such report establishes United Nations Protected Areas, in which the 
        United Nations Protection Force would be stationed and which would be 
        demilitarized and charges such Force to ``assist the humanitarian 
        agencies of the United Nations in the return of all displaced persons 
        who so desire to return to their homes in the Protected Areas'';
Whereas the United Nations and the United Nations Protection Force have failed 
        in accomplishing their mission as established by Security Council 
        Resolution 721 and the report of the Secretary General in the following 
        respects: (1) paramilitary groups located in the Protected Areas have 
        repeatedly shelled civilian areas in the Republic of Croatia and have 
        also shelled the Maslenica bridge which provides the only land link 
        between coastal Croatia and the northern part of Croatia; (2) weaponry 
        is entering the Protected Areas through the Republic of Bosnia and 
        Hercegovina; (3) refugees continue to flee the Protected Areas and the 
        United Nations Protection Force has failed to create conditions which 
        permit the safe return of displaced persons to their homes located 
        within the Protected Areas; and (4) paramilitary groups in the Protected 
        Areas control and have denied water and electricity to civilian 
        populations in the coastal regions of the Republic of Croatia;
Whereas, by its failure to demilitarize the Protected Areas and to bring about 
        the conditions under which displaced persons can return to their homes 
        within such areas, the United Nations and the United Nations Protection 
        Force have failed to accomplish their mandate under Security Council 
        Resolution 743 and the report of the Secretary General;
Whereas the mandate for stationing the United Nations Protection Force in the 
        Protected Areas expires September 30, 1993; and
Whereas a change in such mandate is essential in order to provide the means for 
        a peaceful settlement of that part of the Yugoslav crisis affecting the 
        Republic of Croatia: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that the Security Council of the 
United Nations should--
            (1) renew and strengthen the mandate of the United Nations 
        Protection Force in the United Nations Protected Areas to bring 
        about the immediate and effective demilitarization of the 
        Protected Areas;
            (2) require the United Nations Protection Force to 
        establish conditions for the safe return of refugees and 
        displaced persons to their homes in the Protected Areas; and
            (3) provide for the reopening of a safe land corridor 
        connecting northern Croatia with Croatia's coastal regions and 
        demand that water and electricity being denied to those 
        civilians residing in coastal Croatia be restored immediately.

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