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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 370 

Supporting the territorial integrity of Ukraine and condemning Russian 

military aggression in Ukraine. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 5, 2014 

Mr. COATS (for himself, Mr. KIRK, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. MCCAIN, Mr. 

PORTMAN, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. WICKER, 

Mr. ROBERTS, and Mr. HOEVEN) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Supporting the territorial integrity of Ukraine and 

condemning Russian military aggression in Ukraine. 

Whereas, on February 26–27, 2014, armed men in unmarked 

military uniforms seized key strategic objects in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (‘‘Crimea’’) in Ukraine, including the building of the Crimean Parliament and airports; 

Whereas, as of March 4, 2014, the Government of Ukraine 

confirms that there are approximately 16,000 Russian 

troops occupying Crimea; 

Whereas, on February 28, 2014, President Barack Obama 

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eration inside of Ukraine’’ and that it ‘‘would be a clear 

violation of Russia’s commitment to respect the independence and sovereignty and borders of Ukraine, and of 

international law’’; 

Whereas President Obama pledged that ‘‘the United States 

will stand with the international community in affirming 

that there will be costs for any military intervention in 

Ukraine’’; 

Whereas the armed forces of the Russian Federation have 

violated Ukrainian sovereignty, violated international law, 

threatened the stability of Ukraine and the European 

continent, and compelled the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to meet in emergency session to consider threats to Poland and other NATO members states; 

and 

Whereas President Obama has announced his intention to 

work with Congress to respond forcefully to the outrageous and dangerous misbehavior of the Government of 

the Russian Federation: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) strongly condemns the Russian Federation’s 

3 military incursion into Crimea, in clear violation of 

4 Ukraine’s territorial integrity and in contravention 

5 of international law; 

6 (2) calls on the Government of the Russian 

7 Federation to immediately withdraw all unauthor8 ized military personnel from Crimea; 

9 (3) pledges to work urgently and in bipartisan 

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1 sive package of economic sanctions and other meas2 ures to compel President Vladimir Putin to remove 

3 his armed forces from Ukrainian territory and re4 turn that territory to full Ukrainian sovereign con5 trol; 

6 (4) calls upon the President to seek to resched7 ule a meeting of the G8 nations, to take place as 

8 soon as practicable, where the participating nations 

9 should consider a United States proposal to formally 

10 expel the Russian Federation; 

11 (5) urges the United States to propose to 

12 NATO that the Alliance immediately suspend oper13 ation of the Russia-NATO Council and expel the 

14 Russian Federation’s military and diplomatic rep15 resentation in NATO; 

16 (6) urges the United States to work with other 

17 members of the Organization for Security and Co18 operation in Europe (OSCE) to deploy monitors in 

19 Ukraine to help confirm that the security of the 

20 Russian-speaking population is not threatened; 

21 (7) urges the President to consider down22 grading United States diplomatic representation 

23 with the Russian Federation, including refraining 

24 from sending a new United States ambassador to 

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1 eral in Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok and requiring 

2 the Government of the Russian Federation to make 

3 reciprocal steps to close consulates in the United 

4 States; 

5 (8) calls on the President to utilize all tools, in6 cluding the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Account7 ability Act of 2012 (title IV of Public Law 112–208; 

8 126 Stat. 1502), to expand the Act’s list of sanc9 tioned individuals to impose sanctions on all officials 

10 of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federa11 tion in the chain of command responsible for the in12 vasion of Crimea, leadership of the Duma respon13 sible for condoning the invasion, and Crimean offi14 cials complicit in its execution; 

15 (9) urges the President to consider additional 

16 sanctions, such as suspension of eligibility of Rus17 sian citizens for temporary or seasonal United 

18 States work visas; and 

19 (10) urges the leadership of FIFA to reconsider 

20 its decision to place World Cup 2018 matches in 

21 Russia and instead award those games to a more 

22 worthy alternative country. 

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