[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 3 (Tuesday, January 7, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S59]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 32--EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT 
                ATTACKS ON CULTURAL SITES ARE WAR CRIMES

  Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Ms. Warren, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Reed, Mr. Booker, 
Mr. Wyden, and Ms. Klobuchar) submitted the following concurrent 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations:

                            S. Con. Res. 32

       Whereas attacking cultural sites is illegal under the 
     Geneva Conventions and the 1954 Hague Convention for the 
     Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed 
     Conflict; and
       Whereas, on January 6, 2020, Secretary of Defense Mark T. 
     Esper expressed that the United States would not target 
     Iranian cultural sites, as the United States ``follow[s] the 
     laws of armed conflict'': Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That attacks on cultural sites are war crimes.

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