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105TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 322

Expressing the sense of the House that the United States should act to

resolve the crisis with Iraq in a manner that assures full Iraqi compliance

with United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding the destruction of Iraq’s capability to produce and deliver weapons of mass destruction, and that peaceful and diplomatic efforts should be pursued, but

that if such efforts fail, multilateral military action or unilateral United

States military action should be taken.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOVEMBER 12, 1997

Mr. LANTOS (for himself, Mr. GILMAN, Mr. GOSS, Mr. YATES, Mr. HUNTER,

Mr. SKELTON, Mr. SISISKY, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. SPRATT, Mr. HORN, Mr. KING, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. ROTHMAN,

and Mr. SHERMAN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations

RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of the House that the United States

should act to resolve the crisis with Iraq in a manner

that assures full Iraqi compliance with United Nations

Security Council resolutions regarding the destruction

of Iraq’s capability to produce and deliver weapons of

mass destruction, and that peaceful and diplomatic efforts should be pursued, but that if such efforts fail,

multilateral military action or unilateral United States

military action should be taken.
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Whereas at the conclusion of the Gulf War the United States

and the United Nations acting through the Security

Council determined to find and destroy all of Iraq’s capability to produce chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and its ability to produce missiles capable of delivering such weapons of mass destruction;

Whereas in pursuit of this goal, the United Nations set up

a special multinational commission of experts to oversee

the completion of this task (the United Nations Special

Commission—UNSCOM), and that task could and

should have been accomplished within a matter of months

if Iraq had cooperated with United Nations officials;

Whereas sanctions were imposed upon Iraq to insure its compliance with United Nations directives to eliminate its capability to produce weapons of mass destruction, with the

provision that the sanctions would be lifted when

UNSCOM certified that Iraq’s capability to produce

weapons of mass destruction had been eliminated;

Whereas for six and a half years Iraq has pursued a policy

of deception, lies, concealment, harassment and intimidation in a deliberate effort to hamper the work of

UNSCOM in eliminating Iraq’s ability to produce and deliver weapons of mass destruction; and

Whereas recently the government of Iraq has escalated its

policy of non-compliance with United Nations Security

Council resolutions by refusing to permit United States

citizens who are recognized specialists from participating

as members of UNSCOM teams in carrying out in Iraq

actions to implement Security Council resolutions: Now,

therefore, be it
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1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the United States

2 House of Representatives—

3 (1) that the current crisis regarding Iraq should

4 be resolved peacefully through diplomatic means but

5 in a manner which assures full Iraqi compliance with

6 United Nations Security Council resolutions regard7 ing the destruction of Iraq’s capability to produce

8 and deliver weapons of mass destruction;

9 (2) that in the event that military means are

10 necessary to compel Iraqi compliance with United

11 Nations Council resolutions, such military action

12 should be undertaken with the broadest feasible

13 multi-national support, preferably pursuant to a res14 olution of the United Nations Security Council; and

15 (3) but that if it is necessary, the United States

16 should take military action unilaterally to compel

17 Iraqi compliance with United Nations Security

18 Council resolutions.

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