[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 246 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 246

Expressing the sense of the House denouncing and rejecting a resolution 
 adopted by Foreign Ministers of the Arab League urging the easing of 
 United Nations sanctions against Libya which were imposed because of 
   Libya's refusal to surrender individuals on its territory who are 
 wanted in connection with the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 
                                  103.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 1997

   Mr. Lantos (for himself, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. 
      Ackerman, Mr. Berman, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Deutsch, Mr. Frank of 
 Massachusetts, Mr. Frost, Mr. Gejdenson, Mr. Levin, Mr. Rothman, Mr. 
     Schumer, Mr. Sherman, and Mr. Wexler) submitted the following 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International 
                               Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House denouncing and rejecting a resolution 
 adopted by Foreign Ministers of the Arab League urging the easing of 
 United Nations sanctions against Libya which were imposed because of 
   Libya's refusal to surrender individuals on its territory who are 
 wanted in connection with the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 
                                  103.

Whereas the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 748 on March 31, 
        1992, imposing an embargo on the sale of arms and on international 
        flights against the state of Libya and in Security Council Resolution 
        883 on November 11, 1993, further tightened economic sanctions against 
        Libya for its refusal to surrender individuals suspected in connection 
        with the terrorist bombing in 1988 of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, 
        Scotland, in which 270 individuals were killed and the terrorist bombing 
        in 1989 of the French ATA flight 772 over Niger, in which 160 
        individuals were killed;
Whereas the Security Council had repeatedly voted to maintain these 
        international sanctions against Libya in view of the persistent refusal 
        of the Government of Libya to hand over for trial the two individuals 
        currently in Libya who are accused of involvement in the terrorist 
        bombing of Pan Am flight 103 and ATA flight 772;
Whereas the United Nations sanctions provide for legitimate humanitarian flights 
        to and from Libya for medical and other reasons, and flights of a 
        religious nature to permit Libyan residents to participate in the Hadj 
        have been approved routinely under the United Nations sanctions;
Whereas Libya has repeatedly violated the United Nations sanctions, most 
        egregiously when an aircraft carrying Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar el-
        Kaddafi, landed in Cairo, Egypt, in July 1996 in order for the Libyan 
        leader to participate in an Arab summit meeting; and
Whereas the Foreign Ministers of the Arab League meeting in Cairo on September 
        21, 1997, adopted a resolution in which the Ministers invited ``Arab 
        countries to undertake measures to ease the severity of the embargo 
        imposed on Libya until a final, peaceful, and just solution to the 
        crisis is reached'', ``to lift measures freezing Libyan accounts 
        involving money, the source of which is other than the selling or 
        exporting of oil'', ``to support Libya's right to obtain suitable 
        compensation for human and material damages and losses it sustains as a 
        result of pertinent United Nations Security Council resolutions'', and 
        to exempt from sanctions Libyan ``flights related to participation of 
        the Libyan political leadership and official delegations in regional and 
        international meetings'': Now therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) denounces and rejects in the strongest terms the 
        resolution adopted on September 21, 1997, by the Foreign 
        Ministers of the Arab League in their conference in Cairo which 
        invites Arab states to take action to ease United Nations 
        sanctions against Libya;
            (2) reaffirms the commitment of the United States to 
        support United Nations sanctions against Libya until the two 
        individuals suspected in connection with the terrorist bombing 
        of Pam Am flight 103 and UTA flight 772 are turned over to 
        appropriate judicial authorities in the United States or the 
        United Kingdom and France as required by United Nations 
        Security Council resolutions;
            (3) calls upon the President to suspend all United States 
        assistance to all countries which violate United Nations 
        Security Council sanctions against Libya; and
            (4) requests that the Secretary of State transmit a copy of 
        this resolution to the government of each country which is a 
        member of the Arab League and express to each government the 
        profound concern of the United States about efforts to 
        undermine the international fight against terrorism by 
        weakening or violating sanctions imposed by the United Nations 
        Security Council.
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