[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 293 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 293

    Expressing the sense of the Senate that Nadia Dabbagh should be 
           returned home to her mother, Ms. Maureen Dabbagh.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

              October 8 (legislative day, October 2), 1998

  Mr. Robb (for himself, Mr. Graham, Mr. Warner, and Mrs. Feinstein) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                          on Foreign Relations

             October 21 (legislative day, October 2), 1998

             Committee discharged; considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Expressing the sense of the Senate that Nadia Dabbagh should be 
           returned home to her mother, Ms. Maureen Dabbagh.

Whereas Mr. Mohamad Hisham Dabbagh and Mrs. Maureen Dabbagh had a daughter, 
        Nadia Dabbagh, in 1990;
Whereas Maureen Dabbagh and Mohamad Hisham Dabbagh were divorced in February 
        1992;
Whereas in 1993, Nadia was abducted by her father;
Whereas Mohamad Dabbagh later fled the country with Nadia;
Whereas the governments of Syria and the United States have granted child 
        custody to Maureen Dabbagh and both have issued arrest warrants for 
        Mohamad Dabbagh;
Whereas Mohamad Dabbagh has escaped to Saudi Arabia;
Whereas the United States Department of State believes Nadia now resides in 
        Syria;
Whereas Maureen Dabbagh, with the assistance of missing children organizations, 
        has been unable to reunite with her daughter;
Whereas the Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and 
        Interpol have been unsuccessful in their attempts to bring Nadia back to 
        the United States;
Whereas Maureen Dabbagh has not seen her daughter in over five years; and
Whereas it will take the continued effort and pressure on the part of Syrian 
        officials to bring this case to a successful conclusion: Now, therefore, 
        be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the Governments of the 
United States and Syria immediately locate Nadia and deliver her safely to her 
mother.
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