IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1462 
Condemning ongoing sales of arms to belligerents in Sudan, including the 
Government of Sudan, and calling for both a cessation of such sales 
and an expansion of the United Nations embargo on arms sales to 
Sudan. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008 
Mr. MCGOVERN (for himself, Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey, and Mr. MILLER 
of North Carolina) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning ongoing sales of arms to belligerents in Sudan, 
including the Government of Sudan, and calling for both 
a cessation of such sales and an expansion of the United 
Nations embargo on arms sales to Sudan. 
Whereas, since 2003, the conflict in the Darfur region of 
Sudan has killed at least 300,000 people and displaced 
more than 2,500,000, according to the United Nations; 
Whereas, on July 22, 2004, the Senate declared, ‘‘the atroc-
ities unfolding in Darfur, Sudan, are genocide’’, and on 
September 9, 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell 
testified before the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
the Senate that ‘‘genocide has occurred and may still be 
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occurring in Darfur’’ and ‘‘the Government of Sudan and 
the Janjaweed bear responsibility’’; 
Whereas, on July 30, 2004, the United Nations Security 
Council passed Resolution 1556, imposing an arms em-
bargo on non-governmental belligerents in Darfur, requir-
ing ‘‘all states [to] take the necessary measures to pre-
vent the sale or supply . . . of arms and related materiel 
of all types, including weapons and ammunition, military 
vehicles and equipment, paramilitary equipment, and 
spare parts for the aforementioned’’ to those belligerents; 
Whereas, on March 29, 2005, the United Nations Security 
Council passed Resolution 1591, extending the embargo 
imposed by Security Council Resolution 1556 to apply to 
the Government of Sudan, establishing a sanctions com-
mittee to monitor the arms embargo, and prohibiting the 
Government of Sudan from moving arms into Darfur ex-
cept with the advance approval of that committee; 
Whereas Security Council Resolutions 1556 and 1591 to-
gether impose on all United Nations member states the 
obligation not to sell or supply arms to any belligerent 
operating in Darfur, including the Sudanese military, and 
obligate the Government of Sudan not to transfer any 
arms to Darfur without the approval of the sanctions 
committee; 
Whereas, in September 2006, the Panel of Experts on the 
Sudan, established pursuant to Security Council Resolu-
tion 1591, reported to the United Nations Security Coun-
cil that a senior official of the Government of Sudan told 
the Panel that ‘‘the Government had a sovereign right to 
transfer weapons and additional military personnel into 
Darfur without obtaining the specific permission of the 
Security Council’’; 
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Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) the United States should seek a peaceful 
resolution to the conflict in Darfur and should con-
tinue to pursue a political solution as well as the im-
mediate and unfettered deployment of the peace-
keeping forces of the United Nations-African Union 
Mission in Darfur, without regard to the country of 
origin of those forces; 
(2) the United States supports United Nations 
Security Council Resolutions 1556 (2004) and 1591 
(2005), imposing an arms embargo on all belliger-
ents in Darfur, and supports consistent enforcement 
of the embargo; 
(3) taken together, the obligation imposed by 
the United Nations on all member states to ‘‘take 
the necessary measures to prevent the sale or sup-
ply’’ of arms to belligerents operating in Darfur, the 
well-documented existence of arms in Darfur that 
were transferred from China and Russia, and the in-
sistence of the Government of Sudan that it will not 
abide by the embargo, lead to the conclusion that 
continued sale of arms to Sudan under these cir-
cumstances violates the United Nations arms embar-
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go imposed by Security Council Resolutions 1556 
and 1591; 
(4) all United Nations member states should 
immediately cease all arms sales to the Government 
of Sudan, until the conflict in Darfur, and the 
armed conflict related to the Comprehensive Peace 
Agreement, have been peacefully resolved; and 
(5) the United States Permanent Representa-
tive to the United Nations should use the voice and 
vote of the United States in the United Nations Se-
curity Council to seek an expansion of the arms em-
bargo imposed by Security Council Resolutions 1556 
and 1591 to cover all of Sudan, with an appropriate 
exception for non-lethal assistance to the Govern-
ment of Southern Sudan. 
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