[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22677]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            SUDAN ARMS SALES

  Ms. LANDRIEU. I ask unanimous consent that the Foreign Relations 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 660 and 
the Senate then proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 660) condemning ongoing sales of arms 
     to belligerents in Sudan, including the Government of Sudan, 
     and calling for both a cessation of such sales and an 
     expansion of the United Nations embargo on arms sales to 
     Sudan.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Ms. LANDRIEU. I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed 
to, the amendment which is at the desk be agreed to, the preamble be 
agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and that 
any statements be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 5675) was agreed to, as follows:

                  (Purpose: To improve the resolution)

       Strike paragraphs (3) through (5) of the resolving clause 
     and insert the following:
       (3) in light of the well-documented existence of arms in 
     Darfur that were transferred from China and Russia and the 
     insistence of the Government of Sudan that it will not abide 
     by the embargo, all United Nations member states should 
     immediately cease all arms sales to the Government of Sudan; 
     and
       (4) the United States Permanent Representative to the 
     United Nations should use the voice and vote of the United 
     States in the United Nations Security Council to seek an 
     appropriate expansion of the arms embargo imposed by Security 
     Council Resolutions 1556 and 1591.

  The resolution (S. Res. 660), as amended, was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, as amended, with its preamble, reads as follows:
  (The resolution will be printed in a future edition of the Record).
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I would ask my distinguished friend from 
Louisiana, the senior Senator from Louisiana, to allow me to conduct 
some business. It will take a couple of minutes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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