[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 25, 2012)]
[Senate]
[Page S5401]
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                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 54--STATING THAT IT IS THE POLICY OF THE 
UNITED STATES TO OPPOSE THE SALE, SHIPMENT, PERFORMANCE OF MAINTENANCE, 
   REFURBISHMENT, MODIFICATION, REPAIR, AND UPGRADE OF ANY MILITARY 
 EQUIPMENT FROM OR BY THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION TO OR FOR THE SYRIAN ARAB 
                                REPUBLIC

  Mr. HATCH (for himself and Mr. Cornyn) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations:

                            S. Con. Res. 54

       Whereas the General Director of Rosoboronexport, the 
     largest Russian arms exporter, recently announced that his 
     company was transferring anti-aircraft and anti-ship missile 
     systems to Syria;
       Whereas the Government of the Russian Federation has 
     announced the deployment of 11 warships, including amphibious 
     ships designed to carry naval infantry, to the eastern 
     Mediterranean, and it is expected that some of those ships 
     will dock at the Syrian port of Tartus;
       Whereas Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently stated, 
     ``What can every nation and group represented here do? . . . 
     I ask you to reach out to Russia and China, and to not only 
     urge but demand that they get off the sidelines and begin to 
     support the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people.'';
       Whereas Secretary of State Clinton further stated on July 
     17, 2012, ``[O]ur commitment is to try to get Russia to 
     cooperate. So we want the rest of the world to put pressure 
     on Russia . . . as long as he [Bashar al-Assad] has Russia 
     uncertain about whether or not to side against him in any 
     more dramatic way that it already has, he [Assad] feels like 
     he can keep going.'';
       Whereas the Government of the Russian Federation recently 
     refurbished at least three Syrian Mi-25 helicopters; and
       Whereas the Government of the Russian Federation has taken 
     a tentative positive step of expounding a new policy that it 
     will not enter into new arms agreements with the Government 
     of the Syrian Arab Republic: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That it is the policy of the United States--
       (1) to oppose the sale, shipment, performance of 
     maintenance, refurbishment, modification, repair, or upgrade 
     of any military equipment, including parts that can be used 
     in military equipment, from or by the Government of the 
     Russian Federation to or for the Government of the Syrian 
     Arab Republic; and
       (2) to oppose any effort by the Government of the Russian 
     Federation to increase, maintain, or sustain the military 
     readiness and or military capabilities of the Government of 
     the Syrian Arab Republic.

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