IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 955 
Affirming United States support to the nations of Ukraine, Georgia, and 
Moldova in their effort to retain political sovereignty and territorial integrity. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 20, 2018 
Mr. POE of Texas (for himself, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. OLSON, Mr. PRICE of 
North Carolina, Mr. HARRIS, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. FITZPATRICK, and Mr. 
LEVIN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways 
and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Affirming United States support to the nations of Ukraine, 
Georgia, and Moldova in their effort to retain political 
sovereignty and territorial integrity. 
Whereas the nations of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova are 
sovereign states and voting members of the United Na-
tions; 
Whereas the nations of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova have 
all signed Association Agreements with the European 
Union in 2014; 
Whereas the European Parliament passed resolution 2014/ 
2717 recognizing Ukraine’s, Georgia’s, and Moldova’s 
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European alignment and ability to become members of 
the European Union; 
Whereas the nations of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova joined 
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Part-
nership for Peace Program in 1994; 
Whereas the modern state of Ukraine was founded in 1991 
and recognized by the United States the same year; 
Whereas Ukraine held free and fair parliamentary elections 
in 2014 and is expected to hold new parliamentary elec-
tions by the end of 2019; 
Whereas, March 1, 2018, marks 4 years since the Govern-
ment of the Russian Federation authorized the use of 
military forces in Ukraine leading to a forcible and illegal 
annexation of Crimea; 
Whereas the Government of the Russian Federation has ac-
tively engaged in and supported illegal parliamentary and 
military activity in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of 
eastern Ukraine since April 2014, including the deploy-
ment of its regular armed forces and equipment, that has 
resulted in the deaths of more than 10,000 people and 
the internal displacement of 2,000,000 people according 
to the United Nations; 
Whereas the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances 
signed by the Russian Federation in December 1994 pro-
vided security assurances against the threats or use of 
force against the territorial integrity or political sov-
ereignty of Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine’s voluntary, 
and peaceful willingness to relinquish its nuclear weap-
ons; 
Whereas the Government of the Russian Federation, despite 
its commitments to the Minsk agreements, continues to 
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destabilize Ukraine through a variety of military and po-
litical maneuvers; 
Whereas continued Russian aggression against Ukraine in 
contravention of the Budapest Memorandum threatens 
current and future efforts to combat the proliferation of 
nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction; 
Whereas the modern state of Georgia was founded in 1991 
and recognized by the United States in 1992; 
Whereas Georgia held competitive, well-administered, and 
free parliamentary elections in 2016 and is expected to 
hold new parliamentary elections by 2020; 
Whereas the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South 
Ossetia, one-fifth of Georgia’s sovereign territory, remain 
under Russian occupation since the aftermath of Russia’s 
August 2008 war invasion of Georgia; 
Whereas the modern Republic of Moldova was founded in 
1991 and recognized by the United States the same year; 
Whereas Moldova held competitive and generally well-admin-
istered parliamentary elections in 2014 and is expected to 
hold new parliamentary elections in 2018; 
Whereas military forces and equipment from the Russia Fed-
eration have remained in the separatist region of 
Transnistria since Moldova declared independence in 
1991; 
Whereas the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security 
and Cooperation in Europe, and the Government of 
Moldova have called upon the Government of the Russian 
Federation to remove its troops from Moldovan territory; 
and 
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