Title: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress disapproves of United States recognition of the Taliban and supports an Afghan government-in-exile and the efforts to resist the Taliban in the Panjshir Valley.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This resolution states that the House of Representatives opposes diplomatic recognition of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. It also states that the House recognizes and supports Amrullah Saleh's leadership as the acting president of the former Afghan government and in the resistance against the Taliban.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 604 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 604

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress 
disapproves of United States recognition of the Taliban and supports an 
Afghan government-in-exile and the efforts to resist the Taliban in the 
                            Panjshir Valley.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 24, 2021

   Mr. Crenshaw (for himself, Mr. Waltz, Ms. Cheney, Mr. McCaul, Mr. 
     Wenstrup, and Mr. Rogers of Alabama) submitted the following 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress 
disapproves of United States recognition of the Taliban and supports an 
Afghan government-in-exile and the efforts to resist the Taliban in the 
                            Panjshir Valley.

Whereas the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the Taliban committed heinous 
        human rights abuses against the Afghan people from 1996 until the United 
        States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervention in 
        2001;
Whereas the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the Taliban provided safe 
        harbor to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida;
Whereas the Taliban conducted armed attacks against the Afghan people and denied 
        rights in areas under its control and influence between 2001 and 2021;
Whereas the Taliban denied Afghans the right to vote in elections and sought to 
        decrease voter turnout through threats, coercion, and attacks on Afghan 
        voters between 2001 and 2021;
Whereas the Taliban have engaged in terror against Afghan civilians through 
        indiscriminate attacks, to include bombings and shootings;
Whereas the Taliban has a history of attacking diplomatic missions--the United 
        States Embassy in 2011 and the Indian Embassy in 2008;
Whereas the Taliban seized territory by force after the United States withdrawal 
        in 2021;
Whereas the Taliban executed surrendering members of the Afghan National Defense 
        and Security Forces, violating the law of war;
Whereas the Taliban has conducted public summary executions of Afghans who 
        worked for the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the 
        United States Government;
Whereas the Taliban has fired on civilians protesting Taliban rule in Jalalabad;
Whereas the Taliban has beaten and denied entry to Afghan special immigrant visa 
        recipients attempting to enter Hamid Karzai International Airport to 
        leave the country; and
Whereas the local militia forces, especially those organized in the Panjshir 
        Valley, will be the only hope for Afghans who do not wish to live under 
        the brutal rule of the Taliban: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) stands in opposition to diplomatic recognition and 
        relations with the Taliban-controlled Islamic Emirate of 
        Afghanistan;
            (2) supports maintaining the existing presence of the 
        Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan diplomats and 
        government officers, currently led by Ambassador Adela Raz, to 
        serve as representatives of the legitimate Afghan government-
        in-exile; and
            (3) recognizes and supports the leadership of Amrullah 
        Saleh as the Acting President of the Islamic Republic of 
        Afghanistan and the resistance to the Taliban being formed in 
        the Panjshir Valley and led by Amrullah Saleh, Ahmad Massoud, 
        and Bismillah Khan Mohammadi.
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