[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 541 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 541

Expressing the sense of the Senate that any United States-Saudi Arabia 
  civilian nuclear cooperation agreement must prohibit the Kingdom of 
Saudi Arabia from enriching uranium or separating plutonium on its own 
  territory, in keeping with the strongest possible nonproliferation 
                           ``gold standard''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 12, 2018

   Mr. Merkley (for himself, Mr. Paul, and Mr. Markey) 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 any United States-Saudi Arabia 
  civilian nuclear cooperation agreement must prohibit the Kingdom of 
Saudi Arabia from enriching uranium or separating plutonium on its own 
  territory, in keeping with the strongest possible nonproliferation 
                           ``gold standard''.

Whereas the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at 
        Washington, London, and Moscow July 1, 1968 (NPT), which is nearing its 
        fiftieth anniversary, obligates non-nuclear weapon states, in Article 
        II, ``not to receive the transfer from any transferor whatsoever of 
        nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or of control over 
        such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly; not to 
        manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear 
        explosive devices; and not to seek or receive any assistance in the 
        manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices'': 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that any United 
States-Saudi Arabia civilian nuclear cooperation agreement under 
section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153), commonly 
known as a ``123 Agreement'', concluded in the future, must prohibit 
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from enriching uranium or separating 
plutonium on its own territory, in keeping with the strongest possible 
nonproliferation ``gold standard''.
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