[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 27, 1994]
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         ESTABLISHMENT OF A MULTILATERAL EXPORT CONTROL REGIME

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                        HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 27, 1994

  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, today I am submitting a House Resolution 
urging the President to achieve a clearly defined agreement which 
establishes a multilateral export control regime to stem the 
proliferation of militarily critical products and advanced strategic 
weapons to rogue regimes that jeopardize international peace and the 
national security of the United States.
  In light of the ongoing summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, 
the consideration of this resolution is intended to emphasize that no 
country, including Russia, should qualify for membership in this new 
regime unless it clearly meets the criteria laid down by our State 
Department negotiators. These include the implementation of effective 
export controls, adherence to the control list and the guidelines of 
the existing multilateral regimes, and a firm commitment to stop 
providing advanced strategic weapons to Iran, Iraq, Libya, and North 
Korea.
  This resolution supports the administration's own objectives in 
creating a replacement regime for the former CoCom for East-West 
technology into a global nonproliferation regime that would 
specifically target the four rogue regimes posing a threat to our 
national security interests.
  I urge my colleagues to join with me in sponsoring this resolution, 
whose text follows:

                                H.R. 549

       Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
     the President should work to achieve a clearly defined 
     agreement which establishes a multilateral export control 
     regime to stem the proliferation of militarily critical 
     products, technology, and advanced strategic weapons to rogue 
     regimes that jeopardize international peace and the national 
     security of the United States.
       Whereas the United States and its partners in the 
     Coordinating Committee (hereinafter referred to as 
     ``CoCom''), the multinational body that controlled strategic 
     exports to the former Soviet Union and other Communist 
     States, agreed to disband the organization on March 31, 1994;
       Whereas no successor has yet been established to replace 
     CoCom;
       Whereas multilateral controls are urgently needed to thwart 
     efforts of Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Libya, and other rogue 
     regimes to acquire advanced strategic weapons and militarily 
     critical products and technology that could contribute to 
     such nation's efforts to build threatening offensive weapons 
     capabilities;
       Whereas the United States should make a high-level effort 
     to achieve an effective replacement control regime to CoCom;
       Whereas the Administration has been trying for more than 
     one year to negotiate such replacement regime that would 
     merge the existing CoCom regime for East-West technology 
     controls into a global nonproliferation regime and would 
     specifically target rogue regimes such as Iran, Iraq, North 
     Korea, and Libya;
       Whereas support by such regimes for threatening activities, 
     including acts of international terrorism, poses a national 
     security threat to the United States and its allies;
       Whereas the Administration is now giving active 
     consideration to the inclusion in this replacement regime of 
     Russia, other former Warsaw Pact States, and possibly China;
       Whereas police in Germany have made 4 seizures this year of 
     nuclear contraband from Russia where nuclear facilities are 
     vulnerable to pilfering;
       Whereas the plutonium in one such seizure was 87 percent of 
     a highly enriched isotope used in nuclear weapons and is 
     alleged to originate from a Russian nuclear weapons plant;
       Whereas the Administration needs to ensure that Russia 
     takes prompt and effective action to tighten export controls 
     on nuclear weapons components;
       Whereas Russia has sold destabilizing weapons to Iran and 
     has not indicated that it is prepared to stop or curtail such 
     sales in the future;
       Whereas the Administration should oppose Russian membership 
     in the CoCom successor regime until Russia unconditionally 
     terminates the sale and transfer of all advanced conventional 
     weapons to Iran and any other rogue regimes;
       Whereas the Administration has failed to publicly identify 
     Russia as a country that is transferring advanced 
     conventional weapons to Iran pursuant to the provisions of 
     the Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992; and
       Whereas Russia and other countries should qualify for 
     membership only to the extent that they are beginning to 
     implement effective export controls, adhering to the control 
     lists and the guidelines of the existing multilateral regimes 
     (including the Nuclear Supplier's Group, the Missile 
     Technology Control Regime and the Australia Group), adhering 
     to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and 
     the existing biological and chemical weapons conventions, and 
     agreeing to stop providing destabilizing weapons to rogue 
     regimes: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of 
     Representatives that--
       (1) the President should work to achieve a clearly defined 
     agreement which establishes a multilateral export control 
     regime to stem the proliferation of militarily critical 
     products and technology and advanced strategic weapons to 
     rogue regimes that jeopardize international peace and the 
     national security of the United States and its allies; and
       (2) no country should qualify for membership unless it has 
     begun to implement effective export controls, adheres to the 
     control list and the guidelines of the existing multilateral 
     regimes including the Nuclear Supplier's Group, the Missile 
     Technology Control Regime, and the Australia Group, adheres 
     to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and 
     the existing biological and chemical weapons conventions, and 
     has stopped providing advanced strategic weapons to Iran, 
     Iraq, Libya, and North Korea.

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