[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 200 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 200

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the 
 Republic of Iraq's failure to comply with United Nations resolutions 
 demanding improvements in the area of human rights and requiring the 
 destruction, removal, or rendering harmless of all Iraq's biological, 
chemical, and nuclear weapons, and all ballistic missiles with a range 
                      greater than 150 kilometers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 1995

   Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Solomon, Mr. Lantos, and Mr. Porter) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                       on International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the 
 Republic of Iraq's failure to comply with United Nations resolutions 
 demanding improvements in the area of human rights and requiring the 
 destruction, removal, or rendering harmless of all Iraq's biological, 
chemical, and nuclear weapons, and all ballistic missiles with a range 
                      greater than 150 kilometers.
Whereas United Nations Resolution 687 adopted by the Security Council on April 
        3, 1991, required Iraq to submit to the United Nations Secretary-General 
        a declaration of the locations, amounts, and types of all biological and 
        chemical weapons and an inventory of all ballistic missiles with a range 
        greater than 150 kilometers;
Whereas United Nations Resolution 687 further required Iraq to unconditionally 
        accept the destruction, removal, or rendering harmless of all such 
        weapons and all stocks of agents and subsystems and manufacturing 
        facilities related to their use;
Whereas the United Nations Special Commission, established by the United Nations 
        Security Council for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of 
        United Nations Resolution 687, has concluded that Iraq has not provided 
        a full and comprehensive disclosure of its past military biological 
        program;
Whereas the United Nations Special Commission also has noted that the lack of 
        full, accurate, and verifiable information concerning these biological 
        items suggests that there is a high risk that they have been purchased 
        by Iraq and used for a proscribed purpose, specifically the acquisition 
        of a biological warfare agent;
Whereas it has been determined by the International Atomic Energy Agency that 
        the Government of Iraq has, in violation of its obligations under 
        Article II and Article III of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 
        attempted to acquire the means to produce nuclear weapons;
Whereas the Government of Iraq, during the Gulf War, launched ballistic missiles 
        targeted at the state of Israel in an unprovoked assault against densely 
        populated urban areas which resulted in significant civilian casualties;
Whereas the Government of Iraq has, in the past, employed weapons of mass 
        destruction, including chemical weapons, in a widespread, brutal, and 
        systematic campaign of terror against the country's Kurdish population 
        and has executed a large-scale military operation against civilians 
        living in the southern marshes; and
Whereas United Nations Resolution 688 adopted by the Security Council on April 
        5, 1991, citing the threat to international peace and security in the 
        Middle East posed by the recurrent pattern of repression sponsored by 
        the Iraqi Government against its own people, called on the Iraqi 
        authorities to immediately end this repression, which has included 
        prohibitions on free expression, association, and religious practice, as 
        well as severe mistreatment of minorities and women: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the provisions contained in United Nations Resolution 687 and related 
resolutions which restrict the import of commodities from, and the 
export of commodities to, the Government of Iraq should remain in full 
force and effect until such time as the Security Council has determined 
that the Government of Iraq has complied with all relevant United 
Nations resolutions and completed all actions contemplated by the terms 
of these resolutions.
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