[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 450 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 450

Calling upon the President to appeal to all sides in the current crisis 
in the Middle East for an immediate cessation of violence and to commit 
      United States diplomats to multi-party negotiations with no 
                             preconditions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2006

Mr. Kucinich (for himself, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Abercrombie, Ms. Slaughter, 
    Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Lee, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. 
Grijalva, Mr. Filner, Mr. Stark, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Honda, 
Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Waters, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. Rush, Ms. 
  Baldwin, Ms. Kilpatrick of Michigan, Ms. McCollum of Minnesota, Ms. 
 Solis, and Mr. Meeks of New York) submitted the following concurrent 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International 
                               Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Calling upon the President to appeal to all sides in the current crisis 
in the Middle East for an immediate cessation of violence and to commit 
      United States diplomats to multi-party negotiations with no 
                             preconditions.

    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),  
That Congress--
            (1) calls upon the President to--
                    (A) appeal to all sides in the current crisis in 
                the Middle East for an immediate cessation of violence;
                    (B) commit United States diplomats to multi-party 
                negotiations with no preconditions; and
                    (C) send a high-level diplomatic mission to the 
                region to facilitate such multi-party negotiations;
            (2) urges such multi-party negotiations to begin as soon as 
        possible, including delegations from the governments of Israel, 
        the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Jordan, and 
        Egypt; and
            (3) supports an international peacekeeping mission to 
        southern Lebanon to prevent cross-border skirmishes during such 
        multi-party negotiations.
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