[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 168 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 168

  Relating to the Republic of China on Taiwan's rejoining the United 
                                Nations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 19, 1993

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

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Relating to the Republic of China on Taiwan's rejoining the United 
                                Nations.

Whereas China has been a divided nation since 1949, and the Government of the 
        Republic of China on Taiwan (ROC) and the People's Republic of China on 
        the Chinese mainland have since exercised exclusive jurisdiction over 
        separate parts of China;
Whereas United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 (1971) does not 
        constitute a conclusive settlement of the issue of China's seat in the 
        United Nations resulting from the division of China;
Whereas the Government of the ROC acknowledges that two equal and distinct 
        political entities exist within divided China;
Whereas the Republic of China is currently the fourteenth largest trading nation 
        in the world; its gross national product is the world's twentieth 
        largest; its annual per capita income exceeds US$10,000; its foreign 
        exchange reserves exceed US$80,000,000,000; and has become the world's 
        seventh largest investor outside its own borders;
Whereas twenty-one million Chinese people on Taiwan enjoy the benefits of 
        democracy and a free market economy;
Whereas the Republic of China has actively joined other nations in responding to 
        international disasters and crises; has undertaken assistance programs 
        for less-developed nations; and has in other ways fulfilled regional and 
        global responsibilities;
Whereas the ROC has already joined several important multinational organizations 
        in recent years, including Asia/Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and 
        the Asian Development Bank, and its admission into these organizations 
        has been supported by the United States;
Whereas a consensus to rejoin the United Nations has emerged in the Republic of 
        Taiwan, and the ROC Government has launched a campaign to pursue full 
        membership in the United Nations without prejudice to the current 
        position of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations;
Whereas, there is precedence for parallel representation for divided nations in 
        the United Nations. Both North and South Korea are United Nations 
        members, as were East and West Germany; and
Whereas ROC membership in the United Nations is in conformity with the United 
        Nations principal of universality and will contribute to the peace and 
        stability of the Pacific region, and therefore, ROC membership in the 
        United Nations is supportive of the interests of the United States: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that it should be the policy of the 
United States Government to support readmitting the Republic of China 
to the United Nations.

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