[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 45 (Wednesday, April 16, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S3300]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             REGARDING TERRORIST GRENADE ATTACK IN CAMBODIA

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Foreign 
Relations Committee be discharged from further consideration of Senate 
Resolution 69 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 69) expressing the sense of the 
     Senate regarding the March 30, 1997 terrorist grenade attack 
     in Cambodia.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the immediate 
consideration of the resolution?
  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution 
be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be 
laid upon the table, and that any statements relating to the resolution 
appear at the appropriate place in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 69) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, is as follows:

                               S. Res. 69

       Whereas Cambodia continues to recover from more than three 
     decades of recent warfare, including the genocide committed 
     by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979;
       Whereas Cambodia was the beneficiary of a massive 
     international effort to ensure peace, democracy, and 
     prosperity after the October 1991 Paris Agreements on a 
     Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict;
       Whereas more than 93 percent of the Cambodians eligible to 
     vote in the 1993 elections in Cambodia did so, thereby 
     demonstrating the commitment of the Cambodian people to 
     democracy;
       Whereas since those elections, Cambodia has made 
     significant economic progress which has contributed to 
     economic stability in Cambodia;
       Whereas since those elections, the Cambodia Armed Forces 
     have significantly diminished the threat posed by the Khmer 
     Rouge to safety and stability in Cambodia;
       Whereas other circumstances in Cambodia, including the 
     recent unsolved murders of journalists and political party 
     activists, the recent unsolved attack on party officials of 
     the Buddhist Liberal Democratic Party in 1995, and the 
     quality of the judicial system--described in a 1996 United 
     Nations report as ``thoroughly corrupt''--raise international 
     concern for the state of democracy in Cambodia;
       Whereas Sam Rainsy, the leader of the Khmer Nation Party, 
     was the target of a terrorist grenade attack on March 30, 
     1997, during a demonstration outside the Cambodia National 
     Assembly;
       Whereas the attack killed 19 Cambodians and wounded more 
     than 100 men, women, and children; and
       Whereas among those injured was Ron Abney, a United States 
     citizen and employee of the International Republican 
     Institute who was assisting in the advancement of democracy 
     in Cambodia and observing the demonstration: Now, therefore, 
     be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) extends its sincerest sympathies to the families of the 
     persons killed, and the persons wounded, in the March 30, 
     1997, terrorist grenade attack outside the Cambodia National 
     Assembly;
       (2) condemns the attack as an act of terrorism detrimental 
     to peace and the development of democracy in Cambodia;
       (3) calls upon the United States Government to offer to the 
     Cambodia Government all appropriate assistance in identifying 
     and prosecuting those responsible for the attack; and
       (4) calls upon the Cambodia Government to accept such 
     assistance and to expeditiously identify and prosecute those 
     responsible for the attack.

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