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devices renders Iraq one of the most heavily contami-
nated countries in the world’’; 
Whereas multiple nongovernmental human rights organiza-
tions and media investigations have reported that areas 
still suffering from the lack of reconstruction, service de-
livery, governance, and security are acutely susceptible to 
re-radicalization by Islamic State underground cells or 
follow-on elements; 
Whereas human rights organizations have reported that thou-
sands of displaced Iraqis, including children, are unable 
to obtain or replace civil documentation due to displace-
ment caused by Islamic State; 
Whereas some paramilitary forces, including some elements 
of the ‘‘Popular Mobilization Units’’ or ‘‘PMUs’’ that 
mobilized to fight Islamic State terrorists have yet to be 
fully integrated into national security institutions and 
threaten civilian populations in some areas, including vul-
nerable minority groups; 
Whereas in late 2019, some Iraqi security force units, includ-
ing non-state militias, responded violently to peaceful 
protests resulting in the deaths of more than 550 Iraqi 
civilians and many more injured; 
Whereas in 2019 and 2020, Iranian aligned militias, some of 
whom operate Iraqi PMUs conducted numerous attacks 
on United States and coalition forces in Iraq as well as 
Iraqi military facilities and Iraqi nationals, including a 
December 2019 attack that killed a United States citizen 
contractor and wounded others, and a March 2020, at-
tack that killed a United States servicemember, a United 
States contractor, a British soldier, and injured at least 
a dozen other troops;
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Whereas Iranian aligned militias and some PMUs were re-
portedly involved in the December 31, 2019, to January 
1, 2020, siege on the United States Embassy in Bagh-
dad, in which attackers set fire to structures and dam-
aged property; 
Whereas in July 2019 the Combined Joint Task Force-Oper-
ation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR) informed the De-
partment of Defense and Department of State Inspector 
General that the Islamic State in Iraq continues to re-
cruit from isolated rural areas ‘‘exploiting perceived 
weaknesses and failures of the Iraqi government, particu-
larly in Sunni areas where the population feels ne-
glected’’; 
Whereas a July 2019 Department of Defense and Depart-
ment of State Lead Inspector General (LIG) Report to 
Congress on Operation Inherent Resolve stated the ‘‘De-
partment of State and USAID reported that the greatest 
obstacles preventing IDPs from returning * * * are lack 
of security and economic opportunity, and damage to 
housing’’ as well as a lack of ‘‘legal assistance to recover 
or renew identification documents’’; 
Whereas in March 2020 Iraq confirmed its first case of 
COVID–19, which soon spread throughout the country, 
straining Iraq’s already struggling healthcare system, and 
infecting 64,000 Iraqis and killing 2,685 Iraqis, including 
592 Iraqi doctors, as of June 2020; and 
Whereas the LIG reported in May 2020 that ‘‘the emergence 
of COVID–19 in Iraq has further restricted humani-
tarian access and presented a significant risk to inter-
nally displaced person (IDP) and refugee camps across 
the country’’: Now, therefore, be it
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports a sovereign and democratic Iraq at 
peace with its neighbors and safe for its citizens, regard-
less of religion, sect, or ethnicity; 
(2) calls on the Administration to provide continued 
support for Iraqi efforts to ensure stability and security 
for a democratic Iraq; 
(3) calls on the Government of Iraq to take all ap-
propriate action to protect United States diplomats and 
United States servicemembers, including by holding ac-
countable those involved in the December 31, 2019, 
through January 1, 2020, attack on the United States 
Embassy; 
(4) supports robust exercise by Iraqis of the rights 
to free speech and assembly as guaranteed to them by 
the Constitution of Iraq; 
(5) calls on the Government of Iraq to hold ac-
countable all those responsible for violence against 
peaceful protestors, including members of Iraqi security 
forces as applicable; 
(6) calls on all countries to continue upholding the 
principle of non-refoulement for refugees subject to vio-
lence, persecution, or death if forcibly returned to Iraq, 
including for reasons of religious persecution, and to as-
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sist internally displaced Iraqis to safely and voluntarily 
return to their homes; 
(7) encourages the United States to continue to 
work with bilateral and multilateral partners and inter-
national nongovernmental organizations on the stabiliza-
tion of Iraq; 
(8) calls on the Administration to continue assisting 
religious and ethnic minority communities targeted by 
the Islamic State for genocide; 
(9) calls on the Administration to continue to work 
with the Government of Iraq to eliminate child labor and 
forced labor in Iraq; 
(10) supports expanded bilateral trade and invest-
ment between the United States and Iraq; 
(11) supports development of an Iraqi private sector 
based on rule of law and free market principles; 
(12) supports the 2020 United States–Iraq Stra-
tegic Dialogues and the principles agreed upon by both 
the United States and Iraq in such Dialogues and the 
fostering of continued dialogue based on such Dialogues; 
(13) calls on the Administration to continue pro-
viding medical assistance to support the Iraqi healthcare 
sector in combatting COVID–19; and 
(14) calls on the Government of Iraq to allow hu-
manitarian and stabilization assistance programs to be
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implemented without bureaucratic delays or impedi-
ments. 
Attest: 
Clerk.