[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 112 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 112

Urging sanctions to be imposed against the Burmese government, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                May 24 (legislative day, April 19), 1993

 Mr. Moynihan (for himself, Mr. Simon, Mr. Pell, Mr. Helms, Mr. Biden, 
Mr. Jeffords, Mr. McConnell, Mr. D'Amato, and Mr. Kerrey) submitted the 
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
                               Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Urging sanctions to be imposed against the Burmese government, and for 
                            other purposes.

Whereas the military junta in Burma known as the State Law and Order Restoration 
        Council (in this preamble referred to as the ``SLORC'') brutally 
        suppressed peaceful democratic demonstrations in September 1988;
Whereas the Senate of the United States has repeatedly condemned and continues 
        its condemnation of the SLORC;
Whereas the SLORC does not represent the people of Burma, since the people of 
        Burma gave the National League for Democracy a clear victory in the 
        election of May 27, 1990;
Whereas the SLORC has held Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a leader of the National League 
        for Democracy and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991, under 
        house arrest since July 1989;
Whereas the United Nations Human Rights Commission unanimously adopted on March 
        5, 1993, a resolution deploring the human rights situation in Burma and 
        the continued arrest of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; and
Whereas on March 12, 1992, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
        unanimously stated that (1) the SLORC does not represent the Burmese 
        people and should transfer power to the winners of the 1990 elections, 
        (2) United States military attaches should be withdrawn from Burma, and 
        (3) the United States should oppose United Nations Development Program 
        funding for Burma: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the President, 
the Secretary of State, and other United States Government 
representatives should--
            (1) seek the immediate release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from 
        arrest and the transfer of power to the winners of the 1990 
        elections in Burma; and
            (2) encourage the adoption by the United Nations Security 
        Council of an arms embargo and other sanctions against the 
        regime of the State Law and Order Restoration Council in Burma.
    Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Senate shall transmit a copy of this 
resolution to the President and the Secretary of State.

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