Title: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that any United States-Saudi Arabia civilian nuclear cooperation agreement must prohibit the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from enriching uranium or separating plutonium on its own territory, in keeping with the strongest possible nonproliferation "gold standard".
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that any future U.S.-Saudi Arabia civilian nuclear cooperation agreement must prohibit Saudi Arabia from enriching uranium or separating plutonium.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 2 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 2

 Expressing the sense of Congress that any United States-Saudi Arabia 
  civilian nuclear cooperation agreement must prohibit the Kingdom of 
Saudi Arabia from enriching uranium or separating plutonium on its own 
  territory, in keeping with the strongest possible nonproliferation 
                           ``gold standard''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 12, 2019

   Mr. Merkley (for himself, Mr. Paul, and Mr. Markey) submitted the 
following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Foreign Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of Congress that any United States-Saudi Arabia 
  civilian nuclear cooperation agreement must prohibit the Kingdom of 
Saudi Arabia from enriching uranium or separating plutonium on its own 
  territory, in keeping with the strongest possible nonproliferation 
                           ``gold standard''.

Whereas, on May 21, 2009, the United States and the United Arab Emirates signed 
        a bilateral agreement pursuant to section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act 
        of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153), establishing cooperation on civilian nuclear 
        programs in which the United Arab Emirates agreed that it ``shall not 
        possess sensitive nuclear facilities within its territory or otherwise 
        engage in activities within its territory for, or relating to, the 
        enrichment or reprocessing of material, or for the alternation in form 
        or content (except by irradiation or further irradiation or, if agreed 
        by the Parties, post-irradiation examination) of plutonium, uranium 233, 
        high enriched uranium, or irradiated source or special fissionable 
        material'';
Whereas the civil nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and 
        the United Arab Emirates further obligates the United Arab Emirates to 
        bring into force its Additional Protocol to its IAEA Safeguards 
        Agreement before the United States licenses ``exports of nuclear 
        material, equipment, components, or technology'' pursuant to the 
        agreement; and
Whereas this agreement became known as the first ``gold standard'' civil nuclear 
        agreement and was lauded as a step toward establishing a precedent for 
        strong nonproliferation standards on the Arabian Peninsula: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that any United States-Saudi Arabia 
civilian nuclear cooperation agreement under section 123 of the Atomic 
Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153), commonly known as a ``123 
Agreement'', concluded in the future should prohibit the Kingdom of 
Saudi Arabia from enriching uranium or separating plutonium on Saudi 
Arabian territory in keeping with the strongest possible 
nonproliferation ``gold standard'' as well as require the Kingdom of 
Saudi Arabia to bring into force the Additional Protocol with the 
International Atomic Energy Agency.
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