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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. CON. RES. 137

To enhance United States efforts to stem the proliferation of weapons of

mass destruction.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

AUGUST 6, 1993

Mr. BERMAN submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was

referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

To enhance United States efforts to stem the proliferation

of weapons of mass destruction.

Whereas the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is

among the most grave national security challenges the

United States faces;

Whereas President Clinton has stated that preventing the

spread of such weapons will be a chief priority of United

States foreign and national security policy;

Whereas, as part of that policy, the United States will seek

the indefinite extension of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, an issue to be decided in

1995 by a conference of the parties to the Treaty;

Whereas the negotiation of a comprehensive nuclear test ban

treaty, long considered a key milestone in global efforts
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to halt the spread of nuclear weapons, will greatly assist

the United States in achieving the indefinite extension of

the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;

Whereas the United States committed itself in the Treaty

Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in

Outer Space and Under Water (done at Moscow, August

1963) to seek ‘‘to achieve the discontinuance of all test

explosions of nuclear weapons for all time, determined to

continue negotiations to this end’’;

Whereas in 1992 Congress enacted legislation requiring a nuclear testing moratorium until July 1, 1993, and an end

to all testing by September 1996;

Whereas President Clinton announced on July 30, 1993, that

the United States will continue the moratorium for at

least 15 more months unless another country resumes

testing, and will pursue multilateral negotiations on a

comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty;

Whereas, prior to this announcement, the House of Representatives had passed legislation that would appropriate

$120,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 to conduct nuclear

tests;

Whereas the program of safeguards on the peaceful uses of

nuclear energy administered by the International Atomic

Energy Agency serves as the frontline in preventing the

diversion of nuclear material for weapons purposes;

Whereas the safeguard responsibilities of the International

Atomic Energy Agency have grown sharply in recent

years as a result of the increase in the number of parties

to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the non-
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proliferation undertakings of Argentina, Brazil, and

South Africa;

Whereas for a decade the United States has paid its assessed

contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency

at the end of the calendar year in which it is due, complicating the International Atomic Energy Agency’s ability to fulfill its obligations;

Whereas, as a result of the fall of totalitarian regimes in

Eastern Europe and the breakup of the Soviet Union,

successor governments have lacked adequate export controls over the possible outflow of dual use technology related to the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction;

Whereas the United States is an original signatory of the

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and

on Their Destruction (hereinafter in this resolution referred to as the ‘‘Chemical Weapons Convention’’) which

bans the possession of chemical weapons; and

Whereas an international preparatory commission has been

established to complete all the work necessary to bring

the Chemical Weapons Convention into force in January

1996: Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate

2 concurring),

3 SECTION 1. ENDING NUCLEAR TESTING.

4 The Congress—

5 (1) commends the President for his decision to

6 continue the moratorium on nuclear testing; and
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1 (2) encourages the President to begin prepara2 tions expeditiously for multilateral negotiations on a

3 comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty.

4 SEC. 2. EXTENDING THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION

5 TREATY.

6 The Congress strongly shares the view that the Trea7 ty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is an es8 sential component of international security and should be

9 extended indefinitely in 1995.

10 SEC. 3. REALLOCATING NUCLEAR TESTING FUNDS.

11 It is the sense of the Congress that amounts that

12 would have been made available to conduct nuclear tests

13 during fiscal year 1994 should be reallocated as follows:

14 (1) $50,000,000 should be made available to

15 enable the United States to pay its assessed con16 tributions to the International Atomic Energy Agen17 cy earlier in that agency’s fiscal year.

18 (2) $16,000,000 should be made available for

19 the United States assessed contribution for the

20 preparatory commission of the Chemical Weapons

21 Convention.

22 (3) $30,000,000 should be made available

23 through a nonproliferation fund to assist the emerg24 ing democracies in Eastern Europe and the inde-
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1 pendent states of the former Soviet Union in devel2 oping an adequate system of export controls.

3 (4) $4,000,000 should be made available for the

4 Reduced Enrichment in Research and Test Reactors

5 Program.

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