[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 153 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 153

Expressing the sense of the Congress in support of the President of the 
                   Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 23, 1993

   Mr. Solomon (for himself and Mr. Gilman) submitted the following 
 concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
                                Affairs

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Congress in support of the President of the 
                   Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.

Whereas the United States strongly supports the principle of democracy and 
        supports the forces of democracy throughout the world;
Whereas the Russian people, in their 1,000 year history, have never had an 
        opportunity to elect a truly representative parliament in free and fair 
        elections;
Whereas the members of the current parliament of the Russian Federation, known 
        as the Congress of People's Deputies, were elected under the auspices of 
        a constitution imposed on the peoples of the Russian Federation by the 
        dictatorship of the Soviet Communist Party;
Whereas a majority of those voting in the April 1993 referendum voiced their 
        desire for early elections for a new legislature for the Russian 
        Federation;
Whereas the President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, was duly elected 
        to that office in a free, fair, and competitive vote held in June 1991;
Whereas a majority of those voting in the April 1993 referendum voiced their 
        support for President Yeltsin and his policies, meant to establish truly 
        democratic government in the Russian Federation; and
Whereas the current political and constitutional impasse in the Russian 
        Federation has brought the country to a state of deep crisis and 
        imperils that process of democratic reform: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That the Congress--
            (1) recognizing the democratic intent of the actions taken 
        by President Yeltsin on September 21, 1993, supports his 
        insistence on free and fair elections to allow the peoples of 
        the Russian Federation the opportunity to elect a truly 
        representative legislature;
            (2) applauds President Clinton for voicing his firm support 
        for the President of the Russian Federation;
            (3) fully expects that the President of the Russian 
        Federation will ensure that elections are held as planned by 
        December 1993; and
            (4) calls upon the President of the United States, the 
        Secretary General of the United Nations, and the community of 
        nations to offer assistance in facilitating the electoral 
        process in the Russian Federation.

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