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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. CON. RES. 142
Respecting actions to be taken by the Security Council of the United Nations
in Yugoslavia.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 13, 1993
Mr. SENSENBRENNER submitted the following concurrent resolution; which
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Respecting actions to be taken by the Security Council of
the United Nations in Yugoslavia.
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 743,
approved February 21, 1992, establishes a United Na-
tions Protection Force in accordance with the report of
the Secretary General of the United Nations made pursu-
ant to Security Council Resolution 721;
Whereas such report of the Secretary General states ‘‘a
United Nations peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia
would be an interim arrangement to create the conditions
of peace and security required for the negotiation of an
overall settlement of the Yugoslav crisis’’;
Whereas such report establishes United Nations Protected
Areas, in which the United Nations Protection Force
would be stationed and which would be demilitarized and
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charges such Force to ‘‘assist the humanitarian agencies
of the United Nations in the return of all displaced per-
sons who so desire to return to their homes in the Pro-
tected Areas’’;
Whereas the United Nations and the United Nations Protec-
tion Force have failed in accomplishing their mission as
established by Security Council Resolution 721 and the
report of the Secretary General in the following respects:
(1) paramilitary groups located in the Protected Areas
have repeatedly shelled civilian areas in the Republic of
Croatia and have also shelled the Maslenica bridge which
provides the only land link between coastal Croatia and
the northern part of Croatia; (2) weaponry is entering
the Protected Areas through the Republic of Bosnia and
Hercegovina; (3) refugees continue to flee the Protected
Areas and the United Nations Protection Force has
failed to create conditions which permit the safe return
of displaced persons to their homes located within the
Protected Areas; and (4) paramilitary groups in the Pro-
tected Areas control and have denied water and elec-
tricity to civilian populations in the coastal regions of the
Republic of Croatia;
Whereas, by its failure to demilitarize the Protected Areas
and to bring about the conditions under which displaced
persons can return to their homes within such areas, the
United Nations and the United Nations Protection Force
have failed to accomplish their mandate under Security
Council Resolution 743 and the report of the Secretary
General;
Whereas the mandate for stationing the United Nations Pro-
tection Force in the Protected Areas expires September
30, 1993; and
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Whereas a change in such mandate is essential in order to
provide the means for a peaceful settlement of that part
of the Yugoslav crisis affecting the Republic of Croatia:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that the
Security Council of the United Nations should—
(1) renew and strengthen the mandate of the
United Nations Protection Force in the United Na-
tions Protected Areas to bring about the immediate
and effective demilitarization of the Protected Areas;
(2) require the United Nations Protection
Force to establish conditions for the safe return of
refugees and displaced persons to their homes in the
Protected Areas; and
(3) provide for the reopening of a safe land cor-
ridor connecting northern Croatia with Croatia’s
coastal regions and demand that water and elec-
tricity being denied to those civilians residing in
coastal Croatia be restored immediately.
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