[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 160 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 160

Expressing the sense of Congress that the United Nations should remove 
 the economic sanctions against Iraq completely and without condition.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 6, 2003

   Mr. Smith of Michigan (for himself, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mrs. 
  Miller of Michigan, Mr. Barrett of South Carolina, Ms. Ginny Brown-
 Waite of Florida, Mr. Terry, Mr. Ballenger, Mr. Pence, and Mr. Pitts) 
 submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to 
                the Committee on International Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the United Nations should remove 
 the economic sanctions against Iraq completely and without condition.

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 661 established sanctions as 
        a result of Saddam Hussein's unprovoked, illegal aggression against the 
        sovereign Arab State of Kuwait;
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 continued the sanctions, 
        intended to deprive the government of Saddam Hussein of maintaining or 
        acquiring the means to threaten other states or peoples, or to continue 
        to oppress his own people, until that government unconditionally 
        accepted the destruction, removal, or rendering harmless of its chemical 
        weapons, biological weapons, and ballistic missiles with a range of more 
        than 150 kilometers;
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 further required the 
        government of Saddam Hussein to end any research programs aimed at 
        developing such weapons, to destroy any material associated with such 
        programs, and to change its behavior toward its own people;
Whereas the United Nations Security Council, through the oil-for-food program, 
        allowed for humanitarian goods to flow to Iraq while maintaining the 
        sanctions regime and control over Iraq's oil revenue;
Whereas the Coalition that liberated Iraq poses no risk to other states or 
        peoples, and there is no reason to believe that the people of Iraq, 
        liberated from the tyrant Saddam Hussein, pose such a risk;
Whereas the people of Iraq are now ready to rebuild their nation after over 30 
        years of tyranny;
Whereas the sanctions established by United Nations Security Council Resolutions 
        661 and 687 prohibit the importation of goods necessary for the Iraqi 
        people to rebuild their country;
Whereas these sanctions restrict the trade of Iraqi goods, by and on behalf of 
        the Iraqi people, necessary to allow expeditious rebuilding of Iraq and 
        recovery from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein; and
Whereas continuing the sanctions imposed on the government of Saddam Hussein 
        punishes the people of Iraq for the actions of a brutal tyrant who no 
        longer rules them: Now, therefore, be it:
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that--
            (1) the United Nations should immediately act to lift the 
        economic sanctions imposed by United Nations Security Council 
        Resolutions 661 and 687; and
            (2) member states of the United Nations should allow and 
        encourage their nationals to trade with Iraq.
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