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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 200
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the Republic
of Iraq’s failure to comply with United Nations resolutions demanding
improvements in the area of human rights and requiring the destruction,
removal, or rendering harmless of all Iraq’s biological, chemical, and
nuclear weapons, and all ballistic missiles with a range greater than
150 kilometers.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 24, 1995
Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Mr. SOLOMON, Mr. LANTOS, and Mr. PORTER) sub-
mitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on
International Relations
RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regard-
ing the Republic of Iraq’s failure to comply with United
Nations resolutions demanding improvements in the area
of human rights and requiring the destruction, removal,
or rendering harmless of all Iraq’s biological, chemical,
and nuclear weapons, and all ballistic missiles with a
range greater than 150 kilometers.
Whereas United Nations Resolution 687 adopted by the Se-
curity Council on April 3, 1991, required Iraq to submit
to the United Nations Secretary-General a declaration of
the locations, amounts, and types of all biological and
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chemical weapons and an inventory of all ballistic missiles
with a range greater than 150 kilometers;
Whereas United Nations Resolution 687 further required
Iraq to unconditionally accept the destruction, removal,
or rendering harmless of all such weapons and all stocks
of agents and subsystems and manufacturing facilities re-
lated to their use;
Whereas the United Nations Special Commission, established
by the United Nations Security Council for the purpose
of carrying out the provisions of United Nations Resolu-
tion 687, has concluded that Iraq has not provided a full
and comprehensive disclosure of its past military biologi-
cal program;
Whereas the United Nations Special Commission also has
noted that the lack of full, accurate, and verifiable infor-
mation concerning these biological items suggests that
there is a high risk that they have been purchased by
Iraq and used for a proscribed purpose, specifically the
acquisition of a biological warfare agent;
Whereas it has been determined by the International Atomic
Energy Agency that the Government of Iraq has, in vio-
lation of its obligations under Article II and Article III
of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, attempted to
acquire the means to produce nuclear weapons;
Whereas the Government of Iraq, during the Gulf War,
launched ballistic missiles targeted at the state of Israel
in an unprovoked assault against densely populated
urban areas which resulted in significant civilian casual-
ties;
Whereas the Government of Iraq has, in the past, employed
weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weap-
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ons, in a widespread, brutal, and systematic campaign of
terror against the country’s Kurdish population and has
executed a large-scale military operation against civilians
living in the southern marshes; and
Whereas United Nations Resolution 688 adopted by the Se-
curity Council on April 5, 1991, citing the threat to
international peace and security in the Middle East posed
by the recurrent pattern of repression sponsored by the
Iraqi Government against its own people, called on the
Iraqi authorities to immediately end this repression,
which has included prohibitions on free expression, asso-
ciation, and religious practice, as well as severe mistreat-
ment of minorities and women: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that the provisions contained in United Na-
tions Resolution 687 and related resolutions which restrict
the import of commodities from, and the export of com-
modities to, the Government of Iraq should remain in full
force and effect until such time as the Security Council
has determined that the Government of Iraq has complied
with all relevant United Nations resolutions and completed
all actions contemplated by the terms of these resolutions.
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