[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 18, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H3870-H3871]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    CHINA'S SALE OF MISSILES TO IRAN

  (Ms. PELOSI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, as we prepare for the debate and the vote on 
most-favored-nation status for China, I wish to call to the attention 
of my colleagues a statement made by Secretary William Cohen yesterday 
in which he said that Iran this month successfully tested a new air-
launched antiship cruise missile obtained from China.

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  A Member should have serious concerns about China's proliferation 
behavior to Iran. We spend a great deal of time, money, and effort to 
promote the Middle East peace, and Iran is a menace to that peace.
  I would like to also call to the attention of my colleagues the 
statement by the Office of Naval Intelligence: Discoveries after the 
Gulf war clearly indicate that Iraq maintained an aggressive weapons of 
mass destruction procurement program. A similar situation exists today 
in Iran with a steady flow of materials and technologies from China to 
Iran.
  This exchange is one of the most active weapons of mass destruction 
programs in the Third World and is taking

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place in a region of great strategic interest to the United States.
  Mr. Speaker, this is also a place where our young people are in 
harm's way in the Persian Gulf. I urge my colleagues to seriously 
attend to the issue of proliferation as they decide on their vote and 
vote no on most-favored-nation status to China.

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