[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 190 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 190

 Expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should work to 
achieve a clearly defined and enforceable agreement with allies of the 
United States which establishes a multilateral export control regime to 
 stem the proliferation of products and technologies to rogue regimes 
   that would jeopardize the national security of the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             March 15 (legislative day, February 22), 1994

 Mr. D'Amato (for himself, Mr. Mack, Mr. Riegle, Mr. Sasser, Mr. Roth, 
Mr. Helms, Mr. Bond, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Faircloth, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Gregg, 
 and Mr. Kerry) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
        to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should work to 
achieve a clearly defined and enforceable agreement with allies of the 
United States which establishes a multilateral export control regime to 
 stem the proliferation of products and technologies to rogue regimes 
   that would jeopardize the national security of the United States.

Whereas the United States and its allies have agreed that as of March 31, 1994, 
        the Coordinating Committee (hereafter referred to as ``CoCom''), the 
        multilateral body that controlled strategic exports to the former Soviet 
        Union and other Communist States, will cease to exist;
Whereas no successor has yet been established to replace the CoCom;
Whereas threats to United States security are posed by rogue regimes that 
        support terrorism as a matter of national policy;
Whereas a critical element of the United States proposal for a successor to 
        CoCom is that supplier nations agree on a list of militarily critical 
        products and technologies that would be denied to a handful of rogue 
        regimes;
Whereas some allies of the United States oppose this principle and instead 
        propose that such controls be left to ``national discretion'', 
        effectively replacing multilateral export controls with a loose 
        collection of unilateral export control policies which would be adverse 
        for United States security and economic interests;
Whereas multilateral controls are needed to thwart efforts of Iran, Iraq, North 
        Korea, Libya, and other rogue regimes, to acquire arms and sensitive 
        dual-use goods and technologies that could contribute to their efforts 
        to build weapons of mass destruction; and
Whereas the United States would be forced to make the difficult choice of 
        choosing between unilateral export controls under the Export 
        Administration Act of 1979, which would put American companies at a 
        competitive disadvantage worldwide, or allowing exports that could 
        seriously harm the national security interests of the United States: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--
            (1) the President should work to achieve a clearly defined 
        and enforceable agreement with allies of the United States 
        which establishes a multilateral export control system for the 
        proliferation of products and technologies to rogue regimes 
        that would jeopardize the national security of the United 
        States; and
            (2) the President should persuade allies of the United 
        States to promote mutual security interests by preventing rogue 
        regimes from obtaining militarily critical products and 
        technologies.

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