A concurrent resolution condemning the Government of Iran for violating its international nuclear nonproliferation obligations and expressing support for efforts to report Iran to the United Nations Security Counsel.

Bill: 109-sconres-78
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2006-01-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms control agreements
Arms control negotiations
China
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional tributes
Diplomacy
East Asia
Energy
Europe
France
Germany
International agencies
Iran
Middle East and North Africa
Nuclear nonproliferation
Reactor fuel reprocessing
Russia
United Kingdom
United Nations
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: 
Condemns the government of Iran's many failures to comply with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations, including its obligations under the Safeguards Agreement, its suspension commitments under the Paris Agreement, and prior commitments to the EU-3 to suspend all enrichment- and reprocessing-related activities.
 
 Commends the efforts of the governments of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom to seek a credible suspension of Iran's enrichment- and reprocessing-related activities and to find a diplomatic means to address Iran's noncompliance with such obligations.
 
Urges the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors at its February 2006 special meeting to order that Iran's noncompliance be reported to the U.N. Security Council. 
 
Calls on Security Council members, in particular the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, to consider any report of Iran's noncompliance in fulfillment of the Security Council's mandate to respond to situations bearing on international peace and security.

action_date: 2006-01-27
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Condemns the government of Iran's many failures to comply with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations, including its obligations under the Safeguards Agreement, its suspension commitments under the Paris Agreement, and prior commitments to the EU-3 to suspend all enrichment- and reprocessing-related activities.
 
 Commends the efforts of the governments of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom to seek a credible suspension of Iran's enrichment- and reprocessing-related activities and to find a diplomatic means to address Iran's noncompliance with such obligations.
 
Urges the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors at its February 2006 special meeting to order that Iran's noncompliance be reported to the U.N. Security Council. 
 
Calls on Security Council members, in particular the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, to consider any report of Iran's noncompliance in fulfillment of the Security Council's mandate to respond to situations bearing on international peace and security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S253-254; text as passed Senate: CR S253-254; text of measure as introduced: CR S251-252)
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S253-254; text as passed Senate: CR S253-254; text of measure as introduced: CR S251-252)
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: Introduced in Senate