[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 32 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. CON. RES. 32

Expressing the sense of Congress that attacks on cultural sites are war 
                                crimes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 7, 2020

 Mr. Markey (for himself, Ms. Warren, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Reed, Mr. Booker, 
   Mr. Wyden, and Ms. Klobuchar) submitted the following concurrent 
  resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of Congress that attacks on cultural sites are war 
                                crimes.

Whereas attacking cultural sites is illegal under the Geneva Conventions and the 
        1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the 
        Event of Armed Conflict; and
Whereas, on January 6, 2020, Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper expressed that 
        the United States would not target Iranian cultural sites, as the United 
        States ``follow[s] the laws of armed conflict'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That attacks on cultural sites are war crimes.
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