IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1030 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the territories 
of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are a part of the sovereign state of 
Georgia and condemning the decision by the Syrian Arab Republic to 
recognize these territories as independent of Georgia. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 25, 2018 
Mr. FRANCIS ROONEY of Florida (for himself, Mr. CONNOLLY, and Mr. POE 
of Texas) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are a part 
of the sovereign state of Georgia and condemning the 
decision by the Syrian Arab Republic to recognize these 
territories as independent of Georgia. 
Whereas the United States established diplomatic relations 
with Georgia in 1992 and codified those relations in the 
2009 United States-Georgia Charter on Strategic Part-
nership; 
Whereas Georgia has been a committed partner of the North 
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and has contrib-
uted significant troops and resources to the NATO mis-
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sions in Afghanistan and the Multi-National Force in 
Iraq; 
Whereas Georgia maintains peaceful relations with its neigh-
bors in the Caucasus region and has been a reliable part-
ner in promoting peace and democracy in the Eurasia re-
gion; 
Whereas the United States and its partners must stand up 
against the Russian Federation’s expansion into terri-
tories of the former Soviet Union; 
Whereas the Russian Federation violates international law by 
continuously occupying sovereign territory in Georgia and 
has on multiple occasions meddled in the affairs of Geor-
gia during the war in Abkhazia from 1992–1993 and 
during the Russo-Georgian war in August 2008; 
Whereas only 5 member states of the United Nations recog-
nize Abkhazia or South Ossetia as independent of Geor-
gia; 
Whereas the Syrian Arab Republic is a failed client-state of 
the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran; 
and 
Whereas the Russian Federation, in its effort to disrupt the 
West and its allies, will use failed states such as the Syr-
ian Arab Republic to push its geopolitical agenda and 
lend credibility to the territories it illegally occupies: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes Georgia’s sovereignty and terri-
torial integrity, and reaffirms that the regions of 
Abkhazia and South Ossetia, currently occupied by 
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the Russian Federation, are territories of Georgia; 
and 
(2) condemns the decision by the Syrian Arab 
Republic, which is a client state of the Russian Fed-
eration, to recognize the independence of the regions 
of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. 
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