[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 218 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 218

                    On the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                 May 25 (legislative day, May 16), 1994

     Mr. Simon (for himself and Mr. Reid) submitted the following 
  resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
                    On the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Whereas the ongoing war between Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, supported in part by 
        Armenia, and Azerbaijanis has caused untold suffering on all sides, 
        including economic deprivations, military and civilian casualties, and 
        substantial movements of refugees;
Whereas this prolonged conflict is undermining the ability of both Armenia and 
        Azerbaijan to establish their identities as fully sovereign and 
        independent members of the international community, which the United 
        States supports;
Whereas the Minsk Group of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 
        under the chairmanship of Jan Eliasson of Sweden and with the 
        participation of U.S., Armenian, Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian, and 
        Azerbaijani representatives, succeeded in creating a package of 
        confidence-building measures including delivery of humanitarian supplies 
        and access to or the release of prisoners of war;
Whereas the Government of Azerbaijan has indicated a willingness to resume 
        normal economic relations with Armenia and to negotiate a status for 
        Nagorno-Karabakh based on substantial autonomy, a willingness that 
        should be explored;
Whereas the Government of Armenia and, to a lesser extent, the leadership of 
        Nagorno-Karabakh have demonstrated their willingness to resolve the 
        conflict on mutually agreeable terms; and
Whereas section 907 of Public Law 102-511 (``Freedom Support Act of 1992'') 
        prohibits the provision of U.S. assistance to the Government of 
        Azerbaijan until the President determines that the Government of 
        Azerbaijan is taking demonstrable steps to cease all blockades and other 
        offensive uses of force against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--
            (1) the President should direct that halting the war 
        between Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians and Armenians on one side, 
        and Azerbaijanis on the other, should be a high priority of 
        United States foreign policy;
            (2) the President, acting through the Secretary of State, 
        should immediately launch a new high-level diplomatic 
        initiative to stop the war, based on the Minsk process, 
        including representatives of Russia and other parties to the 
        conflict, and making clear that--
                    (A) the United States calls on the parties to adopt 
                and implement substantial confidence-building measures 
                including the lifting of barriers to shipment of 
                humanitarian supplies, and take immediate concrete 
                steps to lift economic blockades and resume normal 
                economic relations;
                    (B) the United States calls on the parties 
                immediately to discontinue all offensive military 
                operations on territory which both Armenia and 
                Azerbaijan acknowledge to be the territory of the other 
                state, and to withdraw their forces from such territory 
                and show full respect for the sovereignty and integrity 
                of territory which is not disputed;
                    (C) the United Nations should be enlisted to send 
                observers to the region--including U.S. observers--to 
                monitor the implementation of an effective cease-fire 
                agreed by all the parties;
                    (D) the United States can only support a settlement 
                of the conflict which is accepted by all the parties 
                with the backing of the Conference on Security and 
                Cooperation in Europe;
                    (E) the United States will use all its influence to 
                oppose any further sale, provision, or transfer, by any 
                country, of weapons and war material to Armenia, to the 
                Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, or to Azerbaijan which 
                could be used for purposes of prolonging the war; and
                    (F) the United States is prepared to launch a 
                Trans-Caucasus Enterprise Fund, to include Armenia, 
                Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as an incentive for the 
                lifting of blockades and implementation of an effective 
                cease-fire, which will promote regional peace and 
                economic prosperity;
            (3) the Senate welcomes the administration's efforts to 
        provide kerosene, seed wheat, and other urgently-needed 
        humanitarian supplies to Armenia, as well as technical 
        assistance for the transformation to the market economy;
            (4) the Senate welcomes steps taken by the administration 
        to extend U.S. assistance to Azerbaijan through the vehicle of 
        non-governmental organizations; and
            (5) section 907 of the Freedom Support Act (Public Law 102-
        511) was not intended as an anti-Azeri initiative, is not so 
        viewed today, and it should be repealed as soon as Azerbaijani 
        blockades are lifted.

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