[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 431 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 431

  Expressing the sense of the Senate that the United Nations Security 
  Council should immediately consider and take appropriate actions to 
 respond to the growing threats posed by conditions in Burma under the 
     illegitimate rule of the State Peace and Development Council.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 21, 2004

 Mr. McConnell (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. McCain, Mr. Feingold, 
 Mrs. Dole, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Brownback, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Lugar, and Mr. 
Corzine) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Foreign Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the Senate that the United Nations Security 
  Council should immediately consider and take appropriate actions to 
 respond to the growing threats posed by conditions in Burma under the 
     illegitimate rule of the State Peace and Development Council.

Whereas the National League for Democracy, headed by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, is 
        the legitimately elected political leadership in Burma;
Whereas the ruling State Peace and Development Council, headed by General Than 
        Shwe, and its affiliated organizations continue, through a variety of 
        means, to violate the human rights and dignity of the people of Burma 
        through murder, torture, rape, forced relocation, the employment of 
        child soldiers, the use of forced labor, and the exploitation of child 
        laborers;
Whereas the State Peace and Development Council has detained over 1,300 
        prisoners of conscience, including National League for Democracy leaders 
        and supporters of democracy;
Whereas, under the repressive rule of the State Peace and Development Council, 
        the situation in Burma poses an immediate and growing threat to the 
        Southeast Asia region, including through the unchecked spread of HIV/
        AIDS, the illicit production of, and trafficking in, narcotics, 
        trafficking in persons, and alleged efforts to purchase weapons from 
        North Korea, China, and Russia;
Whereas, at the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly, a 
        resolution was adopted by the General Assembly that expresses grave 
        concern about the ongoing systematic violations of human rights 
        inflicted upon the people of Burma and calls on the State Peace and 
        Development Council to release all political prisoners, respect the 
        results of the national elections in 1990, and restore democracy to 
        Burma; and
Whereas the National League for Democracy has called upon the United Nations 
        Security Council to intervene on behalf of the people of Burma: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the United 
Nations Security Council should immediately consider and take 
appropriate actions to respond to the growing threats posed to the 
Southeast Asia region by conditions in Burma under the illegitimate 
rule of the State Peace and Development Council, including the threats 
posed by widespread human rights violations, the unchecked spread of 
HIV/AIDS, the illicit production of, and trafficking in, narcotics, 
trafficking in persons, and alleged efforts by the State Peace and 
Development Council to purchase weapons from North Korea, China, and 
Russia.
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