[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11189]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     RECOGNIZING THE HISTORIC EFFORTS OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Foreign Relations Committee be discharged from further consideration 
and the Senate now proceed to S. Res. 122.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk 
will report the resolution by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 122) recognizing the historic efforts 
     of the Republic of Kazakhstan to reduce the threat of weapons 
     of mass destruction through cooperation in the Nunn-Lugar/
     Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, and celebrating the 
     10th anniversary of the removal of all nuclear weapons from 
     the territory of Kazakhstan.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
resolution be agreed to; that the preamble be agreed to; and that the 
motion to reconsider be laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 122) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:

                              S. Res. 122

       Whereas at the time of the collapse of the Union of Soviet 
     Socialist Republics in December 1991, 1,410 nuclear warheads 
     on heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles, air-launched 
     cruise missiles, and heavy bombers were located within the 
     Republic of Kazakhstan;
       Whereas, on July 2, 1992, the parliament of Kazakhstan 
     approved and made Kazakhstan a party to the Treaty on the 
     Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, with 
     annexes, protocols and memorandum of understanding, signed at 
     Moscow July 31, 1991, and entered into force December 5, 1994 
     (commonly known as the ``START Treaty'');
       Whereas, on February 14, 1995, Kazakhstan formally acceded 
     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'');
       Whereas, on December 13, 1993, the Government of Kazakhstan 
     signed the Safe and Secure Dismantlement Act (SSD) and its 5 
     implementing agreements with the United States, and became 
     eligible to receive $85,000,000 in assistance under the Nunn-
     Lugar/Cooperative Threat Reduction Program;
       Whereas the decision of the people and the Government of 
     Kazakhstan to transfer all nuclear weapons from the territory 
     of Kazakhstan to the control of the Russian Federation 
     allowed Kazakhstan to become a non-nuclear-weapon State Party 
     to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty;
       Whereas the continuing efforts of the Government of 
     Kazakhstan to pursue cooperative efforts with the United 
     States and other countries to secure, eliminate, destroy, or 
     interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction and their 
     means of delivery provides a model for such efforts; and
       Whereas, in April 1995, the Government of Kazakhstan 
     formally transferred the last nuclear warhead from the 
     territory of Kazakhstan to the territory of the Russian 
     Federation: Now, therefore be it
       Resolved, That the Senate commends, on the occasion of the 
     10th anniversary of the removal of the last nuclear warhead 
     from the territory of Kazakhstan, the people and the 
     Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan for their historic 
     decision to rid Kazakhstan of nuclear weapons.

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