[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 20 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 20

         Relative to Taiwan's membership in the United Nations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 23 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

Mr. Lieberman submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
         Relative to Taiwan's membership in the United Nations.

Whereas the governments in both Beijing (China) and Taipei (Taiwan) claim that 
        they represent all of China, including Taiwan;
Whereas Taiwan was a Japanese colony during the period between 1895 and 1945;
Whereas, at the end of World War II, the United States military temporarily 
        allowed the Chinese Nationalist President, Chiang Kai-shek, to rule 
        Taiwan;
Whereas the period of civil war which took place on mainland China between 1945 
        and 1949 ended when the Chinese Nationalist (Kuomingtang) Government was 
        overthrown by the Communist regime (People's Republic of China) that 
        remains in power today;
Whereas, subsequent to this overthrow, the Communists forced the Nationalists 
        off the mainland, and they fled to Taiwan;
Whereas, ever since 1949, Taiwan has been a politically and economically 
        independent entity completely separated from the People's Republic of 
        China;
Whereas, until 1971, appointees of the Chinese Nationalist Government, based in 
        Taipei, represented Taiwan and mainland China in the United Nations; 
        however, during that year, the Government of the People's Republic of 
        China, based in Beijing, assumed the role of representing both mainland 
        China and Taiwan;
Whereas, on December 15, 1978, the United States and the People's Republic of 
        China released a joint communique that announced a switch in United 
        States diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing;
Whereas that joint communique also stated that ``the United States will maintain 
        cultural, commercial, and other unofficial relations with the people of 
        Taiwan'';
Whereas, on December 15, 1978, in a unilateral statement released concurrently 
        with that joint communique, the United States stated that it ``continues 
        to have an interest in the peaceful resolution of the Taiwan issues and 
        expects that the Taiwan issue will be settled peacefully by the Chinese 
        themselves'';
Whereas, on April 10, 1979, President Carter signed into law the Taiwan 
        Resolution Act (Public Law 96-8) which created a domestic legal 
        authority for the conduct of unofficial relations with Taiwan;
Whereas, since January 1, 1979, the United States, in accord with the Taiwan 
        Resolution Act, has continued the sale of selected defensive military 
        equipment and defense technology to Taiwan;
Whereas Taiwan, with a population of twenty million, has in the past forty years 
        become an independent political entity and an important partner in world 
        trade and the international economy (Taiwan has the world's largest 
        foreign currency reserve, is the fifth largest trading partner of the 
        United States, and is the thirteenth largest trading nation in the 
        world);
Whereas, in spite of its economic achievements and significant role in the world 
        economy and in world affairs, the Government of Taiwan does not have 
        representation in the United Nations and in other international 
        organizations;
Whereas the people of Taiwan have, through their elected legislators, expressed 
        a strong desire to join the United Nations and other international 
        organizations; and
Whereas Taiwan's membership in the United Nations and in other international 
        organizations would further enhance the peace, security, and stability 
        in the Pacific and is in the best interest of the United States: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that the twenty million people of 
Taiwan deserve to be represented in the United Nations and in other 
international organizations by appointees representing Taiwan's 
Government.

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