[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 25 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 25

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Russian Federation should 
  be strongly condemned for its plan to provide nuclear technology to 
Iran, and that such nuclear transfer would make Russia ineligible under 
                   terms of the Freedom Support Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 5, 1997

  Ms. Snowe submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Russian Federation should 
  be strongly condemned for its plan to provide nuclear technology to 
Iran, and that such nuclear transfer would make Russia ineligible under 
                   terms of the Freedom Support Act.

    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),
    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
            (1) Iran is aggressively pursuing a program to acquire and/
        or develop nuclear weapons;
            (2) the Director of Central Intelligence, in September of 
        1994, confirmed that Iran is manufacturing and stockpiling 
        chemical weapons;
            (3) Iran has opposed the Middle East peace process and 
        continues to support the terrorist group Hezballah in Lebanon 
        and radical Palestinian groups;
            (4) Iran has asserted control over the Persian Gulf island 
        of Abu Musa, which it had been previously sharing with the 
        United Arab Emirates;
            (5) during the last few years Iran has reportedly acquired 
        several hundred improved Scud missiles from North Korea;
            (6) Iran has moved modern air defense missile systems, 
        tanks, additional troops, artillery, and surface-to-surface 
        missiles onto islands in the Persian Gulf, some of which are 
        disputed between Iran and the United Arab Emirates;
            (7) Iran has already taken delivery of as many as thirty 
        modern Mig-29 fighter aircraft from the Russian Federation;
            (8) The Russian Federation has sold modern conventionally 
        powered submarines to Iran, which increases Iran's capability 
        to blockade the Straits of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf; and
            (9) the Russian Federation continues to move forward on 
        implementing a commercial agreement to provide Iran with 
        critical nuclear technology despite having been provided with 
        detailed information by the President of the United States on 
        Iran's nuclear weapons program in violation of the Nuclear Non-
        Proliferation Treaty.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the Russian Federation should be strongly condemned for 
        continuing to implement a commercial agreement to provide Iran 
        with nuclear technology that could assist that country in its 
        development of nuclear weapons, and
            (2) the continued implementation of its commercial nuclear 
        agreement with Iran makes the Russian Federation ineligible for 
        United States economic assistance under the terms of the 
        Freedom Support Act.
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