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[H. Con. Res. 139 Referred in Senate (RFS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 139


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 10, 1997

                                Received

                           November 13, 1997

             Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should fully 
 participate in EXPO 2000 in the year 2000, in Hannover, Germany, and 
 should encourage the academic community and the private sector in the 
         United States to support this worthwhile undertaking.

Whereas Germany has invited nations, international and nongovernmental 
        organizations, and individuals from around the world to participate in 
        EXPO 2000, a global town hall meeting to be hosted in the year 2000, in 
        Hannover, Germany, for the purpose providing a forum for worldwide 
        dialogue on the challenges, goals, and solutions for 
        the sustainable development of mankind in the 21st century;
Whereas the theme of EXPO 2000 is ``Humankind-Nature-Technology'';
Whereas EXPO 2000 will take place in the heart of the newly unified, free, and 
        democratic Europe;
Whereas Germany has established a stable democracy and a pluralistic society in 
        the heart of Europe;
Whereas more than 40,000,000 people in the United States can trace their 
        ancestry to Germany, and in 1983 the United States and Germany 
        celebrated the Tri-Centennial of immigration of Germans into the United 
        States;
Whereas Germany has been a close political and military ally of the United 
        States for nearly five decades and has been a driving force with respect 
        to the political, monetary, and economic integration of Europe;
Whereas the United States, as a leading political, intellectual, and economic 
        power, maintains a strong interest in the worldwide strengthening of 
        political freedom and human rights, open market economies, and 
        technological advancement throughout the world; and
Whereas the United States is eager to share with the global community the vast 
        and promising public and private efforts being made to prepare for the 
        next century: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that the United States--
            (1) should fully participate in EXPO 2000, a global town 
        hall meeting to be hosted in the year 2000, in Hannover, 
        Germany, for the purpose of providing a forum for worldwide 
        dialogue on the challenges, goals, and solutions for the 
        sustainable development of mankind in the 21st century; and
            (2) should encourage the academic community and the private 
        sector in the United States to support this worthwhile 
        undertaking.

            Passed the House of Representatives November 9, 1997.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.`