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Whereas the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, which was 
mediated by the Government of Southern Sudan and 
signed by representatives of the Government of Uganda 
and the LRA on August 20, 2006, and extended on No-
vember 1, 2006, requires both parties to cease all hostile 
military and media offensives and asks the Sudan Peo-
ple’s Liberation Army to facilitate the safe assembly of 
LRA fighters in designated areas for the duration of the 
peace talks; 
Whereas the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement is set to ex-
pire on February 28, 2007, and although both parties to 
the agreement have indicated that they are willing to con-
tinue with the peace talks, no date has been set for re-
sumption of the talks, and recent reports have suggested 
that both rebel and Government forces are preparing to 
return to war; 
Whereas a return to civil war would yield disastrous results 
for the people of northern Uganda and for regional sta-
bility, while peace in Uganda will bolster the fragile Com-
prehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan and de-escalate 
tensions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; 
Whereas continuing violence and instability obstruct the de-
livery of humanitarian assistance to the people of north-
ern Uganda and impede national and regional trade, de-
velopment and democratization efforts, and counter-ter-
rorism initiatives; and 
Whereas the Senate unanimously passed Senate Resolution 
366, 109th Congress, agreed to February 6, 2006, and 
Senate Resolution 573, 109th Congress, agreed to Sep-
tember 19, 2006, calling on Uganda, Sudan, the United 
States, and the international community to bring justice 
and provide humanitarian assistance to northern Uganda 
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and to support the successful transition from conflict to 
sustainable peace, while the House of Representatives has 
not yet considered comparable legislation: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) disapproves of the LRA leadership’s incon-
sistent commitment to resolving the conflict in 
Uganda peacefully; 
(2) urges the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) 
and the Government of Uganda to return to negotia-
tions in order to extend and expand upon the exist-
ing ceasefire and to recommit to pursuing a political 
solution to this conflict; 
(3) entreats all parties in the region to imme-
diately cease human rights violations and address, 
within the context of a broader national reconcili-
ation process in Uganda, issues of accountability 
and impunity for those crimes against humanity al-
ready committed; 
(4) presses leaders on both sides of the conflict 
in Uganda to renounce any intentions and halt any 
preparations to resume violence and to ensure that 
this message is clearly conveyed to armed elements 
under their control; and 
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(5) calls on the Secretary of State, the Admin-
istrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, and the heads of other simi-
lar governmental agencies and nongovernmental or-
ganizations within the international community to 
continue and augment efforts to alleviate the hu-
manitarian crisis in northern Uganda and to support 
a peaceful resolution to this crisis by publicly and 
forcefully reiterating the preceding demands. 
Æ 
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