[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[S. Res. 187 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 187

Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the human rights situation 
                   in the People's Republic of China.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 2, 1998

   Mr. Mack (for himself, Mr. Wellstone, Mr. Helms, Mr. Thomas, Mr. 
  Feingold, Mr. Abraham, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Moynihan, Mr. Ashcroft, Mr. 
   Hutchinson, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Brownback, Mr. Durbin, and Ms. Moseley-
 Braun) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Foreign Relations

                             March 11, 1998

                Reported by Mr. Helms, without amendment

                             March 12, 1998

                        Considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the human rights situation 
                   in the People's Republic of China.

Whereas the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 
        Geneva, Switzerland, provides a forum for discussing human rights and 
        expressing international support for improved human rights performance;
Whereas according to the United States Department of State and international 
        human rights organizations, the Government of the People's Republic of 
        China engages in widespread human rights violations; and
Whereas President Clinton pledged that the United States would step up its 
        efforts in cooperation with other states to insist that the United 
        Nations Commission on Human Rights pass a resolution dealing with the 
        serious human rights abuses in the People's Republic of China: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the United States 
should introduce and make all efforts necessary to pass a resolution 
criticizing the People's Republic of China for its human rights abuses 
in China and Tibet at the annual meeting of the United Nations 
Commission on Human Rights.
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