[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 78 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 78

    Encouraging Germany to assume full and active participation in 
 international efforts to maintain and restore international peace and 
                   security, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 10 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

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

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Encouraging Germany to assume full and active participation in 
 international efforts to maintain and restore international peace and 
                   security, and for other purposes.

Whereas for more than four decades following the Second World War, Germany was a 
        divided nation;
Whereas, notwithstanding the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany on 
        September 7, 1949, and the German Democratic Republic on October 7, 
        1949, the Four Allied Powers retained rights and responsibilities for 
        Germany as a whole;
Whereas the Federal Republic of Germany acceded to the United Nations Charter 
        without reservation, ``accept[ing] the obligations contained in the 
        Charter . . . and solemnly undertak[ing] to carry them out'', and was 
        admitted as a member of the United Nations on September 26, 1973;
Whereas the Federal Republic of Germany's admission to the United Nations did 
        not alter Germany's division nor infringe upon the rights and 
        responsibilities of the Four Allied Powers for Germany as a whole;
Whereas these circumstances created impediments to the Federal Republic of 
        Germany fulfilling all obligations undertaken upon its accession to the 
        United Nations Charter;
Whereas Germany was unified within the Federal Republic of Germany on October 3, 
        1990;
Whereas, with the entry into force of the Final Settlement With Respect to 
        Germany on March 4, 1991, the unified Germany assumed its place in the 
        community of nations as a fully sovereign national state;
Whereas German unification and attainment of full sovereignty and the Federal 
        Republic's history of more than four decades of democracy have removed 
        impediments that have prevented its full participation in international 
        efforts to maintain or restore international peace and security;
Whereas international peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace-enforcing operations 
        are becoming increasingly important for the maintenance and restoration 
        of international peace and security;
Whereas United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has called for 
        the ``full participation of Germany in peacekeeping, peacemaking, and 
        peace-enforcing measures'';
Whereas the North Atlantic Council, meeting in ministerial session on June 4, 
        1992, and December 17, 1992, stated the preparedness of the North 
        Atlantic Alliance to ``support, on a case-by-case basis in accordance 
        with our own procedures, peacekeeping activities under the 
        responsibility of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe'' 
        and ``peacekeeping operations under the authority of the United Nations 
        Security Council'';
Whereas the Federal Republic of Germany participated in these North Atlantic 
        Council meetings and fully associated itself with the resulting 
        communiques;
Whereas the Western European Union (WEU) Ministerial Council, in the Petersberg 
        Declaration adopted June 19, 1992, declared that ``As the WEU develops 
        its operational capabilities in accordance with the Maastricht 
        Declaration, we are prepared to support, on a case-by-case basis and in 
        accordance with our own procedures, the effective implementation of 
        conflict-prevention and crisis-management measures, including 
        peacekeeping activities of the CSCE or the United Nations Security 
        Council'';
Whereas the Federal Republic of Germany presided over this Western European 
        Union Ministerial Council meeting and fully associated itself with the 
        Petersberg Declaration;
Whereas the Federal Republic of Germany, by virtue of its political, economic, 
        and military status and potential, will play an important role in 
        determining the success or failure of future international efforts to 
        maintain or restore international peace and security;
Whereas Germany is currently engaged in a debate on the proper role for the 
        German military in the international community and, in this regard, on 
        how to amend the provisions of the Federal Republic's Basic Law that 
        govern German military activities;
Whereas an important element in the German debate is the question of whether the 
        international community would welcome or oppose full German 
        participation in international peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace-
        enforcing operations;
Whereas it is, therefore, appropriate for the United States, as a member of the 
        international community and as a permanent member of the United Nations 
        Security Council, to express its position on the foregoing question; and
Whereas distinctions between peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace-enforcing 
        measures are becoming blurred, making absolute separation of such 
        measures difficult, if not impossible: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That (a) The Senate commends the German people for their 
efforts over several decades--
            (1) to acknowledge forthrightly the evils perpetrated 
        during the National Socialist period;
            (2) to construct a democratic state deeply rooted in German 
        society; and
            (3) to integrate Germany into international institutions 
        designed to strengthen, protect, and promote democracy and 
        international peace and security.
    (b) It is the sense of the Senate that--
            (1) an appropriate response under current circumstances to 
        Germany's past would be for Germany to participate fully in 
        international efforts to maintain or restore international 
        peace and security; and
            (2) the President should strongly encourage Germany to 
        assume full and active participation in international 
        peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace-enforcing operations and 
        to take the necessary measures with regard to its 
        constitutional law and policy and its military capabilities so 
        as to enable the full and active participation of Germany in 
        such operations. 
    Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Senate shall transmit a copy of this 
resolution to the President.

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