[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 706 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 706

         Remembering former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 13, 2022

  Mr. Hagerty (for himself, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Risch, Mr. Menendez, Mr. 
Tillis, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. 
  Blumenthal, Ms. Lummis, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Coons, Mr. 
 Moran, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Warnock, 
Mr. Cramer, Mr. Hickenlooper, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Schatz, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. 
 Markey, Mr. Romney, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Booker, Mr. Boozman, 
  Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Daines, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Lujan, Mr. 
 Rubio, Mr. King, Mr. Toomey, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Padilla, 
   Mr. Cotton, Mr. Bennet, Ms. Collins, Ms. Smith, Mr. Wicker, Mrs. 
Murray, Mr. Hawley, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Thune, 
Mr. Graham, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Portman, Mr. Young, Mrs. Hyde-
Smith, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Reed, Mr. 
Inhofe, Mr. Carper, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Burr) submitted the 
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
                               Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
         Remembering former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe.

Whereas the emergence of a prosperous and democratic Japan over the past 75 
        years has been one of the foundations of global stability and peace in 
        the world;
Whereas former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe was tragically assassinated on 
        July 8, 2022, resulting in the loss of a leading statesman and tireless 
        champion of democratic values around the world;
Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe served as the Prime Minister of Japan 
        from 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020, while leaving an indelible mark on 
        the politics, economy, and society of Japan, as well as prosperity and 
        security around the world;
Whereas, in August 2007, at the Parliament of the Republic of India, former 
        Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered a historic speech entitled ``The 
        Confluence of the Two Seas'', which inspired the vision of the free and 
        open Indo-Pacific;
Whereas, in December 2012, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched the concept 
        of the democratic security diamond--the precursor to the modern-day 
        Quadrilateral Security Dialogue--in which he envisaged a strategy under 
        which the United States, Australia, India, and Japan would form a 
        ``diamond to safeguard'' the maritime commons stretching from the Indian 
        Ocean region to the Western Pacific;
Whereas, in April 2015, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made the first address 
        by a Japanese leader to a joint session of Congress where he called the 
        relationship between the United States and Japan ``an alliance of hope'' 
        and offered his ``eternal condolences to the souls of all American 
        people that were lost during World War II'';
Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advanced the United States-Japan 
        alliance through multiple Presidential administrations of the United 
        States by strengthening diplomatic, military, and economic cooperation, 
        including the Trade Agreement between the United States of America and 
        Japan, done at Washington October 7, 2019;
Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tirelessly sought to resolve the issue 
        of Japanese citizens abducted by the Democratic People's Republic of 
        Korea and continuously sought the safe return of such citizens to Japan;
Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe relentlessly pursued the 
        denuclearization of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by leading 
        a global campaign to cut off revenue to the unlawful nuclear weapons 
        program the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; and
Whereas the United States lost a great friend and ally with the assassination of 
        former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose leadership laid a lasting 
        foundation for the United States and Japan to partner for decades to 
        come in promoting freedom, prosperity, and security around the world and 
        opposing authoritarianism and tyranny: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) remembers former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe and 
        his work to strengthen the alliance between the United States 
        and Japan; and
            (2) extends condolences to the family of former Prime 
        Minister Shinzo Abe and the people of Japan.
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