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Calendar No. 90 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1151 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 19, 2013 
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to 
obtain observer status for Taiwan at the triennial Inter-
national Civil Aviation Organization Assembly, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. CONCERNING THE PARTICIPATION OF TAIWAN 
IN THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION OR-
GANIZATION. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) Safe, secure, and economical international 
air navigation and transport is important to every 
citizen of the world, and safe skies are ensured 
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through uniform aviation standards, harmonization 
of security protocols, and expeditious dissemination 
of information regarding new regulations and other 
relevant matters. 
(2) Direct and unobstructed participation in 
international civil aviation forums and programs is 
beneficial for all nations and their civil aviation au-
thorities. Civil aviation is vital to all due to the 
international transit and commerce it makes pos-
sible, but must also be closely regulated due to the 
possible use of aircraft as weapons of mass destruc-
tion or to transport biological, chemical, and nuclear 
weapons or other dangerous materials. 
(3) The Convention on International Civil Avia-
tion, signed in Chicago, Illinois, on December 7, 
1944, and entered into force April 4, 1947, estab-
lished the International Civil Aviation Organization 
(ICAO), stating ‘‘The aims and objectives of the Or-
ganization are to develop the principles and tech-
niques of international air navigation and to foster 
the planning and development of international air 
transport so as to . . . meet the needs of the peoples 
of the world for safe, regular, efficient and economi-
cal air transport.’’. 
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(4) The terrorist attacks of September 11, 
2001, demonstrated that the global civil aviation 
network is subject to vulnerabilities that can be ex-
ploited in one country to harm another. The ability 
of civil aviation authorities to coordinate, preempt 
and act swiftly and in unison is an essential element 
of crisis prevention and response. 
(5) Following the terrorist attacks of September 
11, 2001, the ICAO convened a high-level Ministe-
rial Conference on Aviation Security that endorsed a 
global strategy for strengthening aviation security 
worldwide and issued a public declaration that ‘‘a 
uniform approach in a global system is essential to 
ensure aviation security throughout the world and 
that deficiencies in any part of the system constitute 
a threat to the entire global system,’’ and that there 
should be a commitment to ‘‘foster international co-
operation in the field of aviation security and har-
monize the implementation of security measures’’. 
(6) The Taipei Flight Information Region, 
under the jurisdiction of Taiwan, covers 180,000 
square nautical miles of airspace and provides air 
traffic control services to over 1.2 million flights an-
nually, with the Taiwan Taoyuan International Air-
port recognized as the 10th and 19th largest airport 
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