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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. CON. RES. 142

Respecting actions to be taken by the Security Council of the United Nations

in Yugoslavia.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEPTEMBER 13, 1993

Mr. SENSENBRENNER submitted the following concurrent resolution; which

was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Respecting actions to be taken by the Security Council of

the United Nations in Yugoslavia.

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 743,

approved February 21, 1992, establishes a United Nations Protection Force in accordance with the report of

the Secretary General of the United Nations made pursuant to Security Council Resolution 721;

Whereas such report of the Secretary General states ‘‘a

United Nations peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia

would be an interim arrangement to create the conditions

of peace and security required for the negotiation of an

overall settlement of the Yugoslav crisis’’;

Whereas such report establishes United Nations Protected

Areas, in which the United Nations Protection Force

would be stationed and which would be demilitarized and
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charges such Force to ‘‘assist the humanitarian agencies

of the United Nations in the return of all displaced persons who so desire to return to their homes in the Protected Areas’’;

Whereas the United Nations and the United Nations Protection Force have failed in accomplishing their mission as

established by Security Council Resolution 721 and the

report of the Secretary General in the following respects:

(1) paramilitary groups located in the Protected Areas

have repeatedly shelled civilian areas in the Republic of

Croatia and have also shelled the Maslenica bridge which

provides the only land link between coastal Croatia and

the northern part of Croatia; (2) weaponry is entering

the Protected Areas through the Republic of Bosnia and

Hercegovina; (3) refugees continue to flee the Protected

Areas and the United Nations Protection Force has

failed to create conditions which permit the safe return

of displaced persons to their homes located within the

Protected Areas; and (4) paramilitary groups in the Protected Areas control and have denied water and electricity to civilian populations in the coastal regions of the

Republic of Croatia;

Whereas, by its failure to demilitarize the Protected Areas

and to bring about the conditions under which displaced

persons can return to their homes within such areas, the

United Nations and the United Nations Protection Force

have failed to accomplish their mandate under Security

Council Resolution 743 and the report of the Secretary

General;

Whereas the mandate for stationing the United Nations Protection Force in the Protected Areas expires September

30, 1993; and
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Whereas a change in such mandate is essential in order to

provide the means for a peaceful settlement of that part

of the Yugoslav crisis affecting the Republic of Croatia:

Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate

2 concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that the

3 Security Council of the United Nations should—

4 (1) renew and strengthen the mandate of the

5 United Nations Protection Force in the United Na6 tions Protected Areas to bring about the immediate

7 and effective demilitarization of the Protected Areas;

8 (2) require the United Nations Protection

9 Force to establish conditions for the safe return of

10 refugees and displaced persons to their homes in the

11 Protected Areas; and

12 (3) provide for the reopening of a safe land cor13 ridor connecting northern Croatia with Croatia’s

14 coastal regions and demand that water and elec15 tricity being denied to those civilians residing in

16 coastal Croatia be restored immediately.

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