[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 361 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 361

 Urging the President to condition discussions about Turkey's foreign 
military finances on resolution of that nation's hostile occupation of 
                        the Republic of Cyprus.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 1999

Mr. Bilirakis (for himself, Mrs. Maloney of New York, and Mr. Menendez) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                       on International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Urging the President to condition discussions about Turkey's foreign 
military finances on resolution of that nation's hostile occupation of 
                        the Republic of Cyprus.

Whereas for 25 years Turkey has illegally and aggressively occupied 37 percent 
        of the Republic of Cyprus and during that time has continually violated 
        the will of the United States and the United Nations to cease its 
        illegal occupation of Cyprus;
Whereas Turkey has been using military weapons and equipment illegally by 
        maintaining a military force of 35,000 troops in an occupied territory;
Whereas it is the position of the Clinton Administration that a settlement to 
        the Cyprus problem should be based on United Nations Security Council 
        Resolutions 1217 and 1250, which both state ``that a Cyprus settlement 
        must be based on a State of Cyprus with a single sovereignty and 
        international personality and a single citizenship, with its 
        independence and territorial integrity safeguarded, and comprising two 
        politically equal communities as described in the relevant Security 
        Council resolutions, in a bi-communal and bi-zonal federation'';
Whereas Rauf Denktash, the self-proclaimed leader of the so-called Turkish 
        Republic of Northern Cyprus, has repeatedly refused to attend United 
        Nations sponsored talks with the President of Cyprus, Glafcos Clerides, 
        without an initial recognition of his breakaway Turkish-Cypriot state in 
        the Turkish occupied north of the island, which continues to be 
        recognized only by Turkey;
Whereas Turkey and Mr. Denktash continue to refuse all international efforts to 
        reach a lasting agreement with Cyprus; and
Whereas Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, on his visit with President Clinton in 
        September 1999, sought forgiveness of Turkey's direct and guaranteed 
        loans of the foreign military finance debt, totaling approximately $3 
        billion: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the President should--
            (1) condition any discussion of Turkey's debt relief or 
        debt refinancing of foreign military finance direct or 
        guaranteed loans on finding a solution to the Cyprus problem; 
        and
            (2) condition any discussion pertaining to disbursement of 
        Turkey's foreign military finance undisbursed direct or 
        guaranteed loans on settlement of the Cyprus situation.
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