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gional architecture based on the rule of law, good govern-
ance, and respect for international law, and that shared 
vision is a strong basis for closer relations and continued 
cooperation towards a free and open Indo-Pacific; and 
Whereas the February 2022 Indo-Pacific Strategy of the 
United States stated: ‘‘The United States. . .welcomes a 
strong and independent ASEAN that leads in Southeast 
Asia. We endorse ASEAN centrality and support ASEAN 
in its efforts to deliver sustainable solutions to the re-
gion’s most pressing challenges.’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) welcomes official representatives from the 
Governments of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, 
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and 
Vietnam to attend the first United States-ASEAN 
Special Summit in Washington, DC; 
(2) supports the comprehensive strengthening 
of the United States-ASEAN Strategic Partnership 
in line with the ASEAN Community Pillars, with the 
aim of upgrading United States-ASEAN dialogue re-
lations to a comprehensive strategic partnership; 
(3) supports the decision of the Association of 
Southeast Asian Nations to invite nonpolitical rep-
resentatives from Burma to high-level ASEAN 
events; 
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(4) calls for the swift and complete implementa-
tion of the ASEAN Five-Point Consensus on 
Myanmar, decided on April 24, 2021; 
(5) urges the immediate cessation of violence in 
Burma, constructive and inclusive dialogue with all 
political stakeholders, access for humanitarian aid 
and organizations and full respect for human rights, 
including release of persons unjustly detained; 
(6) urges the United States-ASEAN Special 
Summit to prioritize— 
(A) the pursuit of a robust economic agen-
da; and 
(B) good governance, the rule of law, and 
human rights and address the trend of demo-
cratic backsliding in Southeast Asia, including 
the 2021 coup in Burma; 
(7) calls on the administration to promptly 
nominate a qualified individual to serve as the Am-
bassador to ASEAN to facilitate diplomatic engage-
ment with ASEAN countries, and to maintain con-
tinued commitment to high-level representation at 
the East Asia Summit and other ASEAN forums; 
(8) supports efforts to enhance integration and 
unity within ASEAN, and build new partnerships 
between ASEAN and other partners of the United 
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States in the region, including Japan, the Republic 
of Korea, Australia, the European Union, Taiwan, 
and India; 
(9) urges ASEAN to build capacity for the pro-
motion and protection of human rights by ASEAN 
member states and the implementation of related 
priorities, programs, and activities; 
(10) calls on ASEAN to reaffirm its commit-
ment, consistent with the ASEAN Charter and 
Treaty of Amity and Cooperation, to the sovereignty, 
independence, unity, and territorial integrity of 
Ukraine within its internationally recognized bor-
ders, and to call for an immediate ceasefire and 
withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine; 
(11) acknowledges the governments of ASEAN 
member states that have fully upheld and imple-
mented all United Nations Security Council resolu-
tions and international agreements with respect to 
nuclear and ballistic missile programs in the Demo-
cratic People’s Republic of Korea, and encourages 
all other ASEAN member states to do the same; 
(12) urges ASEAN member states and other 
states in the region, such as the People’s Republic 
of China, to addressing maritime and territorial dis-
putes in a peaceful manner, in accordance with cus-
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tomary international law, using diplomacy and legiti-
mate regional and international arbitration mecha-
nisms, as well as the adoption of a Code of Conduct 
in the South China Sea that represents the interests 
of all parties and promotes peace and stability in the 
region; 
(13) urges all claimants involved in maritime 
and territorial disputes in the Indo-Pacific region 
to— 
(A) cease any current activities, and avoid 
undertaking any actions in the future that un-
dermine stability or complicate or escalate dis-
putes through the use of coercion, intimidation, 
or military force; 
(B) demilitarize islands, reefs, shoals, and 
other features, and refrain from new efforts to 
construct new garrisons and facilities or relo-
cate military personnel, material, or equipment; 
(C) oppose actions by any country that 
prevent other countries from exercising their 
sovereign rights to the resources in their exclu-
sive economic zones and extended continental 
shelves by enforcing claims to those areas in the 
South China Sea that lack support in inter-
national law; 
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(D) oppose unilateral declarations of ad-
ministrative and military districts in contested 
areas in the South China Sea; and 
(E) refrain from unilateral actions that 
cause permanent physical damage to the marine 
environment; 
(14) recognizes that ASEAN, as a regional or-
ganization with a security mission, plays an impor-
tant role in maintaining peace and stability in the 
Southeast Asian region and supports the assistance 
of the Department of Defense to build ASEAN’s in-
stitutional capacity to collectively address regional 
security challenges; 
(15) supports cooperation between the United 
States, ASEAN, and individual ASEAN member 
states to— 
(A) enhance maritime capability and mari-
time domain awareness; 
(B) protect freedom of navigation, over-
flight, and other lawful uses of the seas in the 
Indo-Pacific region; 
(C) counter piracy and disrupt illicit mari-
time trafficking of persons, goods, or narcotics; 
and 
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