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104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 381
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding sanctions
on nations that assist in the development of nuclear weapon programs
of nonnuclear weapon states.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 13, 1996
Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Mr. SOLOMON, Mr. KASICH, Mr. FRANK of Massa-
chusetts, and Mr. SCARBOROUGH) submitted the following resolution;
which was referred to the Committee on International Relations
RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regard-
ing sanctions on nations that assist in the development
of nuclear weapon programs of nonnuclear weapon
states.
Whereas intelligence investigations by the United States have
revealed transfers from the People’s Republic of China
(hereafter in this preamble referred to as the ‘‘PRC’’) to
Pakistan of sophisticated equipment important to the de-
velopment of nuclear weapons;
Whereas the PRC acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Pro-
liferation of Nuclear Weapons (hereafter in this preamble
referred to as the ‘‘NPT’’) as a nuclear-weapon state on
March 9, 1992;
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Whereas Article I of the NPT stipulates that a nuclear-weap-
on-state party to the treaty shall not in any way encour-
age, assist, or induce any nonnuclear-weapon state to
manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons;
Whereas the NPT establishes a nonnuclear weapon state as
one which has not manufactured and exploded a nuclear
weapon by January 1, 1967;
Whereas Pakistan had not manufactured and exploded a nu-
clear weapon by January 1, 1967;
Whereas Article III of the NPT requires each party to the
treaty not to provide to any nonnuclear-weapon state
equipment or material designed or prepared for the proc-
essing, use, or production of special fissionable material,
unless the material is subject to the safeguards stipulated
in the treaty;
Whereas Pakistan has not acceded to the NPT, and nuclear-
related equipment and material provided to Pakistan is
not subject to international safeguards;
Whereas under the NPT, assisting a nonnuclear-weapon state
to acquire unsafeguarded nuclear material important to
the manufacture of nuclear weapons is a violation of Ar-
ticles I and III of the NPT;
Whereas this transfer constitutes the latest example in a con-
sistent pattern of nuclear weapon-related exports by the
PRC to nonnuclear-weapon states in violation of inter-
national treaties and agreements and United States laws
relating to the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons; and
Whereas failure to enforce the applicable sanctions available
under United States law in this instance would com-
promise vital United States security interests and under-
mine the credibility of United States and international ef-
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forts to discourage commerce in nuclear-related equip-
ment, technology, and materials: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that—
(1) in response to the transfers from the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China to Pakistan of equipment
important to the development of a nuclear weapons
program, the President should impose the strongest
possible sanctions available under United States law
on all Chinese official and commercial entities asso-
ciated directly or indirectly with the research, devel-
opment, sale, transportation, or financing of any nu-
clear or military industrial product or service made
available for export since March 9, 1992; and
(2) the President should not exercise in this in-
stance his authority to waive sanctions provided
under United States law.
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