[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 196 (Wednesday, December 12, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7514-S7515]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4084. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the joint resolution S.J. Res. 54, to direct the removal of 
United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen 
that have not been

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authorized by Congress; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end, add the following:

     SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON UNITED STATES-SAUDI ARABIA 
                   CIVILIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION.

       (a) Findings.--Congress make the following findings:
       (1) On May 21, 2009, the United States and the United Arab 
     Emirates signed a bilateral agreement pursuant to section 123 
     of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153), 
     establishing cooperation on civilian nuclear programs in 
     which the United Arab Emirates agreed that it ``shall not 
     possess sensitive nuclear facilities within its territory or 
     otherwise engage in activities within its territory for, or 
     relating to, the enrichment or reprocessing of material, or 
     for the alternation in form or content (except by irradiation 
     or further irradiation or, if agreed by the Parties, post-
     irradiation examination) of plutonium, uranium 233, high 
     enriched uranium, or irradiated source or special fissionable 
     material''.
       (2) The civil nuclear cooperation agreement between the 
     United States and the United Arab Emirates further obligates 
     the United Arab Emirates to bring into force its Additional 
     Protocol to its IAEA Safeguards Agreement before the United 
     States licenses ``exports of nuclear material, equipment, 
     components, or technology'' pursuant to the agreement.
       (3) This agreement became known as the first ``gold 
     standard'' civil nuclear agreement and was lauded as a step 
     toward establishing a precedent for strong nonproliferation 
     standards on the Arabian Peninsula.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     any United States-Saudi Arabia civilian nuclear cooperation 
     agreement under section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 
     (42 U.S.C. 2153), commonly known as a ``123 Agreement'', 
     concluded in the future should prohibit the Kingdom of Saudi 
     Arabia from enriching uranium or separating plutonium on 
     Saudi Arabian territory in keeping with the strongest 
     possible nonproliferation ``gold standard'' as well as 
     require the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to bring into force the 
     Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy 
     Agency.
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