[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 56 (Monday, May 5, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S3968]
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  SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 25--RELATIVE TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

  Ms. SNOWE submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations:

                            S. Con. Res. 25

       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring),
       (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
       (1) Iran is aggressively pursuing a program to acquire and/
     or develop nuclear weapons;
       (2) the Director of Central Intelligence, in September of 
     1994, confirmed that Iran is manufacturing and stockpiling 
     chemical weapons;
       (3) Iran has opposed the Middle East peace process and 
     continues to support the terrorist group Hezballah in Lebanon 
     and radical Palestinian groups;
       (4) Iran has asserted control over the Persian Gulf island 
     of Abu Musa, which it had been previously sharing with the 
     United Arab Emirates;
       (5) during the last few years Iran has reportedly acquired 
     several hundred improved Scud missiles from North Korea;
       (6) Iran has moved modern air defense missile systems, 
     tanks, additional troops, artillery, and a surface-to-surface 
     missiles onto islands in the Persian Gulf, some of which are 
     disputed between Iran and the United Arab Emirates;
       (7) Iran has already taken delivery of as many as thirty 
     modern MiG-29 fighter aircraft from the Russian Federation;
       (8) The Russian Federation has sold modern conventionally 
     powered submarines to Iran, which increase Iran's capability 
     to blockade the Straits of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf; and
       (9) the Russian Federation continues to move forward on 
     implementing a commercial agreement to provide Iran with 
     critical nuclear technology despite having been provided with 
     detailed information by the President of the United States on 
     Iran's nuclear weapons program in violation of the Nuclear 
     Non-Proliferation Treaty.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the Russian Federation should be strongly condemned for 
     continuing to implement a commercial agreement to provide 
     Iran with nuclear technology that could assist that country 
     in its development of nuclear weapons, and
       (2) the continued implementation of its commercial nuclear 
     agreement with Iran makes the Russian Federation ineligible 
     for United States economic assistance under the terms of the 
     Freedom Support Act.

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