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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. CON. RES. 102
Concerning the efforts to end the civil war in Liberia.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 17, 1993
Mr. TORRICELLI (for himself, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr.
DIAZ-BALART, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. WASHINGTON, Mr.
HUGHES, Mr. WYNN, Mr. GLICKMAN, Mrs. CLAYTON, Mr. INSLEE, Mr.
DEUTSCH, Mr. MFUME, Mr. BALLENGER, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. TUCKER,
Mr. REYNOLDS, Mr. BLACKWELL, Mrs. MEYERS of Kansas, Mr. THOMP-
SON of Mississippi, and Ms. BROWN of Florida) submitted the following
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Concerning the efforts to end the civil war in Liberia.
Whereas civil war has torn Liberia since 1989, when forces
of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) at-
tacked the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) for control of
the country;
Whereas the civil war in Liberia has caused over 1⁄2 of the
2,700,000 Liberians to become refugees or displaced per-
sons within their own country and has resulted in the
rape, torture, and execution of innocent Liberian civil-
ians, with the civilian death toll reaching over 13,000 in-
dividuals;
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Whereas the civil war in Liberia threatens the stability of
neighboring countries in West Africa;
Whereas the United States has long supported the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in its ef-
forts to quell the civil war in Liberia;
Whereas in 1991 in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, ECOWAS,
NPFL, and the interim Liberian Government headed by
Amos Sawyer signed several accords which outline plans
for a cease-fire, the disarmament and encampment of
warring factions, and the holding of free and fair elec-
tions in Liberia;
Whereas NPFL has failed to honor its commitments to the
Yamoussoukro Accords;
Whereas West African Economic Community Monitoring
Group (ECOMOG) peacekeeping forces have been de-
ployed in Liberia since August 1990 and have enforced
a cease-fire from December 1990 to October 1992;
Whereas ECOMOG is a force of 11,000 troops from Ghana,
Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, with the majority of
such troops coming from Nigeria;
Whereas, since ECOMOG forces secured Monrovia, the cap-
ital of Liberia, an interim government and humanitarian
aid organizations have been able to operate out of the
city;
Whereas, due to the presence of such forces in Monrovia, the
number of malnourished Liberians has dropped from 80
percent to 4 percent since 1990, and economic activity
has resumed, including the opening of banks and restora-
tion of international trade;
Whereas such forces are becoming increasingly involved in
the fighting in Liberia as NPFL forces continue to vio-
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late the Yamoussoukro Accords and launch offensives
against the ECOMOG forces; and
Whereas ECOMOG forces are gaining territory in their effort
to combat offensives by NPFL forces and the ECOMOG
forces have reduced the NPFL’s territorial control from
90 percent to 45 percent of Liberia: Now, therefore, be
it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That the Congress—
(1) praises the Economic Community of West
African States (ECOWAS) and the West African
Economic 
Community 
Monitoring 
Group
(ECOMOG) for their efforts to provide a regional
approach toward ending the civil war in Liberia;
(2) commends ECOMOG for its efforts to se-
cure areas of Liberia in order to ensure that critical
humanitarian assistance reaches the needy masses;
(3) supports ECOMOG in its efforts to combat,
disarm, and encamp National Patriotic Front of Li-
beria (NPFL) forces and all other armed factions
for the purpose of ending civil war and calling for
free and fair elections in Liberia in accordance with
the Yamoussoukro Accords;
(4) endorses United Nations Security Council
Resolutions 788 (November 4, 1992) and 813
(March 26, 1993) relating to peacekeeping efforts in
Liberia, welcomes the appointment of Trevor Living-
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ston Gordon-Somers as the Secretary General’s Spe-
cial Representative on Liberia, and encourages the
United Nations and the international community to
take concrete steps to support ECOWAS efforts to
implement the Yamoussoukro Accords;
(5) urges the President to become more actively
involved in assisting ECOWAS in its effort to pro-
mote a peaceful resolution to the civil war in Liberia
and to implement the Yamoussoukro Accords; and
(6) urges the President, the United Nations,
and the international community to continue to sup-
port ECOWAS in its effort to provide a regional ap-
proach to peaceful conflict resolution in West Africa.
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