[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 633 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 633

Condemning the conference denying that the Holocaust occured to be held 
   by the Government of Iran and its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             December 9 (legislative day, December 8), 2006

Mr. Lautenberg (for himself, Mr. Biden, Mrs. Clinton, and Mr. Nelson of 
 Florida) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 
                               agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Condemning the conference denying that the Holocaust occured to be held 
   by the Government of Iran and its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Whereas, on December 11 and 12, 2006, the Foreign Ministry of Iran will convene 
        a conference in Tehran to provide Holocaust deniers a public platform 
        from which to espouse their hatred;
Whereas 11,000,000 people, including 6,000,000 Jews, were viciously murdered in 
        Nazi death camps during World War II;
Whereas President Dwight Eisenhower stated unequivocally, after visiting Nazi 
        death camps in 1945, ``The things I saw beggar description. . . . The 
        visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and 
        bestiality were . . . overpowering. . . . I made the visit deliberately 
        in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things 
        if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these 
        allegations merely to `propaganda'.'';
Whereas the Holocaust is an undeniable fact of history and the upcoming 
        conference in Tehran will serve only to perpetuate intolerance and 
        hatred;
Whereas Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, has repeatedly said that 
        Israel must be ``wiped off the map'' and that ``[a]nybody who recognizes 
        Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury'';
Whereas the Secretary of State has identified Iran as a state sponsor of 
        terrorism that has repeatedly provided support for acts of international 
        terror;
Whereas the Government of Iran sponsors terrorist organizations such as 
        Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and the 
        Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command by 
        providing funding, training, weapons, and safe haven to such 
        organizations;
Whereas the Government of Iran has continually defied international demands to 
        curtail its uranium enrichment programs and development of nuclear 
        weapons;
Whereas the Government of Iran has provided resources, material, and support to 
        organizations whose goal is to destabilize Iraq and Lebanon; and
Whereas the outrageous statements of Mr. Ahmadinejad do not represent the 
        beliefs of Muslims worldwide: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) condemns the conference denying that the Holocaust 
        occured that will take place in Tehran, Iran, under the aegis 
        of the Foreign Ministry of Iran, on December 11 and 12, 2006; 
        and
            (2) calls on the President, on behalf of the United States, 
        to thoroughly repudiate, in the strongest terms possible, the 
        conference and its goal of denying that the Holocaust occured.
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