[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 322 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
H. RES. 322

Expressing the sense of the House that the United States should act to 
   resolve the crisis with Iraq in a manner that assures full Iraqi 
 compliance with United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding 
the destruction of Iraq's capability to produce and deliver weapons of 
 mass destruction, and that peaceful and diplomatic efforts should be 
pursued, but that if such efforts fail, multilateral military action or 
       unilateral United States military action should be taken.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 12, 1997

 Mr. Lantos (for himself, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Goss, Mr. Yates, Mr. Hunter, 
Mr. Skelton, Mr. Sisisky, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. 
 Spratt, Mr. Horn, Mr. King, Mr. Wexler, Mr. Rothman, and Mr. Sherman) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                       on International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House that the United States should act to 
   resolve the crisis with Iraq in a manner that assures full Iraqi 
 compliance with United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding 
the destruction of Iraq's capability to produce and deliver weapons of 
 mass destruction, and that peaceful and diplomatic efforts should be 
pursued, but that if such efforts fail, multilateral military action or 
       unilateral United States military action should be taken.

Whereas at the conclusion of the Gulf War the United States and the United 
        Nations acting through the Security Council determined to find and 
        destroy all of Iraq's capability to produce chemical, biological, and 
        nuclear weapons and its ability to produce missiles capable of 
        delivering such weapons of mass destruction;
Whereas in pursuit of this goal, the United Nations set up a special 
        multinational commission of experts to oversee the completion of this 
        task (the United Nations Special Commission--UNSCOM), and that task 
        could and should have been accomplished within a matter of months if 
        Iraq had cooperated with United Nations officials;
Whereas sanctions were imposed upon Iraq to insure its compliance with United 
        Nations directives to eliminate its capability to produce weapons of 
        mass destruction, with the provision that the sanctions would be lifted 
        when UNSCOM certified that Iraq's capability to produce weapons of mass 
        destruction had been eliminated;
Whereas for six and a half years Iraq has pursued a policy of deception, lies, 
        concealment, harassment and intimidation in a deliberate effort to 
        hamper the work of UNSCOM in eliminating Iraq's ability to produce and 
        deliver weapons of mass destruction; and
Whereas recently the government of Iraq has escalated its policy of non-
        compliance with United Nations Security Council resolutions by refusing 
        to permit United States citizens who are recognized specialists from 
        participating as members of UNSCOM teams in carrying out in Iraq actions 
        to implement Security Council resolutions: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the United States House of 
Representatives--
            (1) that the current crisis regarding Iraq should be 
        resolved peacefully through diplomatic means but in a manner 
        which assures full Iraqi compliance with United Nations 
        Security Council resolutions regarding the destruction of 
        Iraq's capability to produce and deliver weapons of mass 
        destruction;
            (2) that in the event that military means are necessary to 
        compel Iraqi compliance with United Nations Council 
        resolutions, such military action should be undertaken with the 
        broadest feasible multi-national support, preferably pursuant 
        to a resolution of the United Nations Security Council; and
            (3) but that if it is necessary, the United States should 
        take military action unilaterally to compel Iraqi compliance 
        with United Nations Security Council resolutions.
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