[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 174 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 174

     To express the sense of the Senate concerning the expeditious 
resolution of the dispute concerning sales of commercial grade uranium 
                 between the United States and Russia.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 22, 1993

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

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                               RESOLUTION


 
     To express the sense of the Senate concerning the expeditious 
resolution of the dispute concerning sales of commercial grade uranium 
                 between the United States and Russia.

    Resolved, 

SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.

The Senate finds that--
            (1) the United States has a stake in the effort of the 
        people of Russia to build democracy and market economies;
            (2) post-Communist reform is a long-term proposition, 
        requiring a long view and steadiness on the part of the United 
        States;
            (3) the building of democracy and a market economy in 
        Russia is in the interest of the United States;
            (4) the building of democracy and a market economy is one 
        of the most important foreign policy challenges of our time;
            (5) in helping Russia build a market economy, the United 
        States and its allies must work to integrate Russia into the 
        world trading system;
            (6) this means removing barriers to trade and investment 
        for their goods and services to be sold in Western markets and 
        for Western goods and services to be sold in Russia; and
            (7) a special effort to resolve this issue should be made 
        during the upcoming high level visits between the United States 
        and Russia.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF THE SENATE.

    Therefore, it is the sense of the Senate that--
            (1) it is imperative that the dispute concerning sales of 
        commercial grade uranium by Russia be promptly resolved;
            (2) as part of its ongoing management of United States-
        Russia policy, the Clinton administration's steering group on 
        policy toward the new independent States should immediately 
        conduct a nuclear policy review involving high-level officials 
        from relevant United States Government departments and agencies 
        concerning the United States-Russia agreement on sales of 
        commercial grade uranium;
            (3) the review should recommend administrative methods and 
        procedures for achieving access to United States markets for 
        Russian commercial grade uranium in a manner that is consistent 
        with United States trade law;
            (4) based on this review, the policy steering group should 
        propose recommendations for expeditiously resolving the dispute 
        through government-to-government agreements in the context of 
        the the United States-Russia summit in January 1994; and
            (5) to the extent that the dispute remains unresolved, the 
        President should provide a report to the appropriate committees 
        of Congress within 90 days of enactment of this Act, detailing 
        findings of the policy steering group review and its 
        recommendations for expedited administrative procedures to 
        resolve the dispute.

SEC. 3. APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.

    For purposes of this section the ``appropriate committees of 
Congress,'' shall include the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the 
House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the 
House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources, and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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