[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 37 (Wednesday, March 5, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1322-S1323]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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SENATE RESOLUTION 370--SUPPORTING THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF UKRAINE 
         AND CONDEMNING RUSSIAN MILITARY AGGRESSION IN UKRAINE

  Mr. COATS (for himself, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Graham, Mr. McCain, Mr. 
Portman, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Cornyn,

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Mr. Grassley, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Hoeven) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations:

                              S. Res. 370

       Whereas, on February 26-27, 2014, armed men in unmarked 
     military uniforms seized key strategic objects in the 
     Autonomous Republic of Crimea (``Crimea'') in Ukraine, 
     including the building of the Crimean Parliament and 
     airports;
       Whereas, as of March 4, 2014, the Government of Ukraine 
     confirms that there are approximately 16,000 Russian troops 
     occupying Crimea;
       Whereas, on February 28, 2014, President Barack Obama 
     stated that the United States is ``deeply concerned by 
     reports of military movements taken by the Russian Federation 
     inside of Ukraine'' and that it ``would be a clear violation 
     of Russia's commitment to respect the independence and 
     sovereignty and borders of Ukraine, and of international 
     law'';
       Whereas President Obama pledged that ``the United States 
     will stand with the international community in affirming that 
     there will be costs for any military intervention in 
     Ukraine'';
       Whereas the armed forces of the Russian Federation have 
     violated Ukrainian sovereignty, violated international law, 
     threatened the stability of Ukraine and the European 
     continent, and compelled the North Atlantic Treaty 
     Organization (NATO) to meet in emergency session to consider 
     threats to Poland and other NATO members states; and
       Whereas President Obama has announced his intention to work 
     with Congress to respond forcefully to the outrageous and 
     dangerous misbehavior of the Government of the Russian 
     Federation: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) strongly condemns the Russian Federation's military 
     incursion into Crimea, in clear violation of Ukraine's 
     territorial integrity and in contravention of international 
     law;
       (2) calls on the Government of the Russian Federation to 
     immediately withdraw all unauthorized military personnel from 
     Crimea;
       (3) pledges to work urgently and in bipartisan fashion with 
     the President to identify a comprehensive package of economic 
     sanctions and other measures to compel President Vladimir 
     Putin to remove his armed forces from Ukrainian territory and 
     return that territory to full Ukrainian sovereign control;
       (4) calls upon the President to seek to reschedule a 
     meeting of the G-8 nations, to take place as soon as 
     practicable, where the participating nations should consider 
     a United States proposal to formally expel the Russian 
     Federation;
       (5) urges the United States to propose to NATO that the 
     Alliance immediately suspend operation of the Russia-NATO 
     Council and expel the Russian Federation's military and 
     diplomatic representation in NATO;
       (6) urges the United States to work with other members of 
     the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 
     (OSCE) to deploy monitors in Ukraine to help confirm that the 
     security of the Russian-speaking population is not 
     threatened;
       (7) urges the President to consider downgrading United 
     States diplomatic representation with the Russian Federation, 
     including refraining from sending a new United States 
     ambassador to Moscow and closing United States consulates 
     general in Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok and requiring the 
     Government of the Russian Federation to make reciprocal steps 
     to close consulates in the United States;
       (8) calls on the President to utilize all tools, including 
     the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 
     (title IV of Public Law 112-208; 126 Stat. 1502), to expand 
     the Act's list of sanctioned individuals to impose sanctions 
     on all officials of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian 
     Federation in the chain of command responsible for the 
     invasion of Crimea, leadership of the Duma responsible for 
     condoning the invasion, and Crimean officials complicit in 
     its execution;
       (9) urges the President to consider additional sanctions, 
     such as suspension of eligibility of Russian citizens for 
     temporary or seasonal United States work visas;
       (10) urges the leadership of FIFA to reconsider its 
     decision to place World Cup 2018 matches in Russia and 
     instead award those games to a more worthy alternative 
     country.

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