[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 113 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 113

   Condemning the extraconstitutional and antidemocratic actions of 
                    President Serrano of Guatemala.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                May 26 (legislative day, April 19), 1993

   Mr. Bingaman (for himself, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Ford, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. 
    Kerry, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Domenici, and Mr. Jeffords) submitted the 
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
                               Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Condemning the extraconstitutional and antidemocratic actions of 
                    President Serrano of Guatemala.

Whereas Guatemala has had a democratically elected government since 1985;
Whereas President Jorge Serrano and the members of the Guatemalan Congress were 
        freely and fairly elected;
Whereas on May 25, 1993, President Serrano seized near-dictatorial powers by 
        partially suspending Guatemala's Constitution, dissolving Congress and 
        the Supreme Court, and ruling by decree;
Whereas these events are extraconstitutional and antidemocratic and require 
        immediate international attention and action; and
Whereas the Organization of American States agreed in Santiago, Chile, in 1991 
        to convene an emergency meeting of the Hemisphere's foreign ministers in 
        the event of a coup d'etat in a member country in order to consider 
        joint actions to bring about a return to democracy in that country: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) condemns the extraconstitutional and antidemocratic 
        actions of President Serrano of Guatemala and considers those 
        actions a serious blow to democracy in Guatemala and a serious 
        threat to democracy in the Hemisphere;
            (2) calls on President Serrano to restore immediately the 
        democratically elected Congress and the judiciary and to ensure 
        full respect for internationally recognized human rights;
            (3) commends President Clinton for his rapid and decisive 
        response to the situation in Guatemala, in particular his 
        condemnation of President Serrano's actions and his suspension 
        of disbursements of United States assistance;
            (4) calls on the President to suspend the United States 
        assistance program to Guatemala, and to seek to delay approval 
        of any international loans for Guatemala, until constitutional 
        government is restored to Guatemala; and
            (5) commends the Organization of American States (OAS) for 
        its plan to send a fact-finding mission headed by the Secretary 
        General to Guatemala and for calling a meeting of the foreign 
        ministers of the OAS member countries, to be held within 10 
        days.
    Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Senate shall transmit a copy of this 
resolution to the President of the United States.

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