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103D CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. RES. 190

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should work to achieve

a clearly defined and enforceable agreement with allies of the United

States which establishes a multilateral export control regime to stem

the proliferation of products and technologies to rogue regimes that

would jeopardize the national security of the United States.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

MARCH 15 (legislative day, FEBRUARY 22), 1994

Mr. D’AMATO (for himself, Mr. MACK, Mr. RIEGLE, Mr. SASSER, Mr. ROTH,

Mr. HELMS, Mr. BOND, Mr. BENNETT, Mr. FAIRCLOTH, Mr. SHELBY,

Mr. GREGG, and Mr. KERRY) submitted the following resolution; which

was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should

work to achieve a clearly defined and enforceable agreement with allies of the United States which establishes

a multilateral export control regime to stem the proliferation of products and technologies to rogue regimes that

would jeopardize the national security of the United

States.

Whereas the United States and its allies have agreed that as

of March 31, 1994, the Coordinating Committee (hereafter referred to as ‘‘CoCom’’), the multilateral body that

controlled strategic exports to the former Soviet Union

and other Communist States, will cease to exist;
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Whereas no successor has yet been established to replace the

CoCom;

Whereas threats to United States security are posed by rogue

regimes that support terrorism as a matter of national

policy;

Whereas a critical element of the United States proposal for

a successor to CoCom is that supplier nations agree on

a list of militarily critical products and technologies that

would be denied to a handful of rogue regimes;

Whereas some allies of the United States oppose this principle and instead propose that such controls be left to

‘‘national discretion’’, effectively replacing multilateral

export controls with a loose collection of unilateral export

control policies which would be adverse for United States

security and economic interests;

Whereas multilateral controls are needed to thwart efforts of

Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Libya, and other rogue regimes,

to acquire arms and sensitive dual-use goods and technologies that could contribute to their efforts to build

weapons of mass destruction; and

Whereas the United States would be forced to make the difficult choice of choosing between unilateral export controls under the Export Administration Act of 1979,

which would put American companies at a competitive

disadvantage worldwide, or allowing exports that could

seriously harm the national security interests of the

United States: Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that—

2 (1) the President should work to achieve a

3 clearly defined and enforceable agreement with allies
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1 of the United States which establishes a multilateral

2 export control system for the proliferation of prod3 ucts and technologies to rogue regimes that would

4 jeopardize the national security of the United States;

5 and

6 (2) the President should persuade allies of the

7 United States to promote mutual security interests

8 by preventing rogue regimes from obtaining mili9 tarily critical products and technologies.

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