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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 706 

Remembering former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 13, 2022 

Mr. HAGERTY (for himself, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. RISCH, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. 

TILLIS, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. SCOTT of Florida, 

Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Ms. LUMMIS, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. 

COONS, Mr. MORAN, Mr. DURBIN, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. KAINE, Mr. 

BLUNT, Mr. WARNOCK, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, Ms. ERNST, 

Mr. SCHATZ, Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. ROMNEY, Mr. KELLY, 

Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. 

DAINES, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. ROUNDS, Mr. LUJA ́N, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. 

KING, Mr. TOOMEY, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. HOEVEN, Mr. PADILLA, Mr. 

COTTON, Mr. BENNET, Ms. COLLINS, Ms. SMITH, Mr. WICKER, Mrs. 

MURRAY, Mr. HAWLEY, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. CORNYN, 

Mr. THUNE, Mr. GRAHAM, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. SHELBY, Mr. PORTMAN, 

Mr. YOUNG, Mrs. HYDE-SMITH, Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. REED, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. CARPER, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. WYDEN, and Mr. BURR) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Remembering former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe. 

Whereas the emergence of a prosperous and democratic 

Japan over the past 75 years has been one of the foundations of global stability and peace in the world; 

Whereas former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe was 

tragically assassinated on July 8, 2022, resulting in the 


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loss of a leading statesman and tireless champion of 

democratic values around the world; 

Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe served as the 

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and 2012 

to 2020, while leaving an indelible mark on the politics, 

economy, and society of Japan, as well as prosperity and 

security around the world; 

Whereas, in August 2007, at the Parliament of the Republic 

of India, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered a 

historic speech entitled ‘‘The Confluence of the Two 

Seas’’, which inspired the vision of the free and open 

Indo-Pacific; 

Whereas, in December 2012, former Prime Minister Shinzo 

Abe launched the concept of the democratic security diamond—the precursor to the modern-day Quadrilateral 

Security Dialogue—in which he envisaged a strategy 

under which the United States, Australia, India, and 

Japan would form a ‘‘diamond to safeguard’’ the maritime commons stretching from the Indian Ocean region 

to the Western Pacific; 

Whereas, in April 2015, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 

made the first address by a Japanese leader to a joint 

session of Congress where he called the relationship between the United States and Japan ‘‘an alliance of hope’’ 

and offered his ‘‘eternal condolences to the souls of all 

American people that were lost during World War II’’; 

Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advanced the 

United States-Japan alliance through multiple Presidential administrations of the United States by strengthening diplomatic, military, and economic cooperation, including the Trade Agreement between the United States 


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of America and Japan, done at Washington October 7, 

2019; 

Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tirelessly sought 

to resolve the issue of Japanese citizens abducted by the 

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and continuously 

sought the safe return of such citizens to Japan; 

Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe relentlessly pursued the denuclearization of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea by leading a global campaign to cut off 

revenue to the unlawful nuclear weapons program the 

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; and 

Whereas the United States lost a great friend and ally with 

the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 

whose leadership laid a lasting foundation for the United 

States and Japan to partner for decades to come in promoting freedom, prosperity, and security around the 

world and opposing authoritarianism and tyranny: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) remembers former Prime Minister of Japan 

3 Shinzo Abe and his work to strengthen the alliance 

4 between the United States and Japan; and 

5 (2) extends condolences to the family of former 

6 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the people of Japan. 

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