[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 72 (Thursday, May 26, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6058-S6059]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 40--RECOGNIZING AND COMMENDING THE 
PRESIDENT AND THE GOVERNMENTS OF OTHER COUNTRIES THAT HAVE PARTICIPATED 
 IN THE PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE FOR THE HISTORIC EFFORTS AND 
  SUCCESSES OF THE PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE IN REDUCING THE 
  THREAT POSED BY ILLICIT TRAFFICKING IN WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, 
THEIR MEANS OF DELIVERY, AND RELATED MATERIALS, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 
 SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROLIFERATION SECURITY 
                               INITIATIVE

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

                            S. Con. Res. 40

       Whereas, on May 31, 2003, at Wawel Royal Castle, Krakow, 
     Poland, President George W. Bush declared that ``today I 
     announce a new

[[Page S6059]]

     effort to fight proliferation called the Proliferation 
     Security Initiative. The United States and a number of our 
     close allies, including Poland, have begun working on new 
     agreements to search planes and ships carrying suspect cargo 
     and to seize illegal weapons or missile technologies. Over 
     time, we will extend this partnership as broadly as possible 
     to keep the world's most destructive weapons away from our 
     shores and out of the hands of our common enemies'';
       Whereas, since May 2003, more than 60 countries have 
     indicated their support for the Proliferation Security 
     Initiative;
       Whereas, in September 2003, 11 countries agreed to and 
     published the Proliferation Security Initiative Statement of 
     Interdiction Principles, which, among other things, 
     identifies specific steps for effectively interdicting 
     shipments of weapons of mass destruction, their means of 
     delivery, and related materials and for preventing 
     proliferation facilitators, brokers, and middlemen from 
     engaging in this deadly trade;
       Whereas the Proliferation Security Initiative has led to 
     the negotiation of bilateral ship boarding agreements 
     designed to facilitate the interdiction of weapons of mass 
     destruction, their means of delivery, and related materials, 
     including agreements with the Governments of Panama, Liberia, 
     and the Marshall Islands;
       Whereas, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540, 
     proposed by President Bush and adopted unanimously by the 
     Security Council on April 28, 2004, calls on all countries to 
     take cooperative action to prevent trafficking in weapons of 
     mass destruction, their means of delivery, and related 
     materials;
       Whereas the actions of the United States and its 
     Proliferation Security Initiative partners Germany and Italy 
     contributed to the interdiction of the ship ``BBC China'', a 
     commercial ship carrying centrifuge components for Libya's 
     illicit nuclear program, en route to Tripoli, and also 
     contributed to the constructive decision made by the 
     Government of Libya on December 19, 2003, to acknowledge its 
     illegal weapons of mass destruction programs and its 
     agreement to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction and 
     long-range missile programs and rejoin the international 
     community by eliminating all elements of its chemical and 
     nuclear weapons programs, declaring all nuclear materials and 
     activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 
     eliminating ballistic missiles with a range greater than 300 
     kilometers with payloads of 500 or more kilograms, accepting 
     international inspections to ensure Libya's complete 
     adherence to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, signing 
     the Additional Protocol, eliminating all chemical weapons 
     stocks and munitions and acceding to the Chemical Weapons 
     Convention, and allowing immediate inspections and monitoring 
     to verify all of these actions;
       Whereas the Report of the United Nations Secretary-
     General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and 
     Changes finds that ``[r]ecent experience of the activities of 
     the A.Q. Khan network has demonstrated the need for and the 
     value of measures taken to interdict the illicit and 
     clandestine trade in components for nuclear programs'';
       Whereas the same Report also welcomes ``the voluntary 
     Proliferation Security Initiative, under which more and more 
     states are cooperating to prevent illicit trafficking in 
     nuclear, biological and chemical weapons'';
       Whereas, acknowledging that existing non-proliferation 
     agreements and export control regimes are necessary but no 
     longer sufficient, the Secretary-General of the United 
     Nations has stated: ``I applaud the efforts of the 
     Proliferation Security Initiative to fill a gap in our 
     defenses'';
       Whereas the United States and many of its Proliferation 
     Security Initiative partners have conducted 14 ground, air, 
     maritime, and tabletop interdiction exercises over the last 2 
     years, beginning with the Australian-led exercise Pacific 
     Protector in September 2003; and
       Whereas multiple countries have now participated in and 
     observed air, land, and sea interdiction training exercises, 
     in particular the October 2004 Team Samurai exercise, in 
     which Japan, the United States, Australia, and France 
     contributed operational assets and Canada, Cambodia, Germany, 
     Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, 
     Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, 
     Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom participated 
     as observers, and most recently in Exercise Ninfa '05, a 
     joint maritime and ground interdiction exercise led by 
     Portugal: Now, therefore be it
       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the President is to be commended on the occasion of the 
     second anniversary of the creation of the Proliferation 
     Security Initiative for its broadening membership, increasing 
     international support, and successful operational training 
     and exercises;
       (2) all the governments of countries coordinating and 
     cooperating in intelligence sharing, training exercises, and 
     legal agreements with the United States under the 
     Proliferation Security Initiative, in particular the meetings 
     of the PSI Operational Experts Group, are to be commended for 
     their support in the global effort to prevent the 
     proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, their means of 
     delivery, and related materials;
       (3) the Proliferation Security Initiative constitutes an 
     important tool for coordinating diplomatic, law enforcement, 
     customs, intelligence, and military capabilities against the 
     illicit trade in weapons of mass destruction, their means of 
     delivery, and related materials;
       (4) all countries must work together, particularly under 
     the auspices of the committee established pursuant to 
     operative paragraph 4 of United Nations Security Council 
     Resolution 1540, popularly called the ``1540 Committee'', to 
     further the implementation of the provisions of Resolution 
     1540 relating to the international legal bases for continued, 
     aggressive enforcement of all agreements, treaties, and 
     regimes that aim through interdiction activities to end the 
     illicit trade in weapons of mass destruction, their means of 
     delivery, and related materials;
       (5) the governments of all responsible countries should 
     endorse the PSI Statement of Interdiction Principles and 
     cooperate actively to interdict and disrupt illicit trade in 
     weapons of mass destruction, their means of delivery, and 
     related materials; and
       (6) as evidenced in the historic December 19, 2003, 
     decision of Libya to acknowledge and convert or dismantle its 
     illegal weapons of mass destruction programs, the 
     Proliferation Security Initiative can provide significantly 
     enhanced enforcement of and adherence to the Treaty on the 
     Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at Washington, 
     London, and Moscow July 1, 1968, and entered into force March 
     5, 1970 (commonly known as the ``Nuclear Non-Proliferation 
     Treaty''), the Convention on the Prohibition of the 
     Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical 
     Weapons and on Their Destruction, with Annexes, done at Paris 
     January 13, 1993, and entered into force April 29, 1997 
     (commonly known as the ``Chemical Weapons Convention''), the 
     Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production 
     and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin 
     Weapons and on Their Destruction, done at Washington, London, 
     and Moscow April 10, 1972, and entered into force March 26, 
     1975 (commonly known as the ``Biological Weapons 
     Convention''), the safeguards system of the International 
     Atomic Energy Agency, and the commitments and control lists 
     of the Missile Technology Control Regime, the Australia 
     Group, and the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

                          ____________________