A resolution urging the European Union to maintain its arms export embargo on the People's Republic of China.

Bill: 109-sres-91
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Aggression
Alliances
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms sales
Ballistic missiles
Burma
Business ethics
China
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
East Asia
Embargo
Ethnic relations
Europe
European Union
Export controls
Exports
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government ownership
Human rights
International cooperation
Minorities
Nuclear nonproliferation
President and foreign policy
Science, Technology, Communications
Sudan
Taiwan
Technology transfer
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Supports the U.S. embargo on the People's Republic of China (PRC). 
 
Urges the European Union (EU) to: (1) continue its ban on all arms exports to the PRC; (2) make its Code of Conduct on Arms Exports legally enforceable in all EU states; (3) more carefully regulate the end-use of military and dual-use technology; and (4) increase transparency in its arms and dual-use export control regimes. 
 
Encourages the U.S. Government to make clear that a lifting of such EU arms embargo would potentially adversely affect transatlantic defense cooperation, including future transfers of U.S. military technology, services, and equipment to EU countries.
 
Deplores the ongoing human rights abuses in the PRC.
 
Urges the United States and the EU to develop a common strategy to seek: (1) human rights improvement in the PRC; (2) an end to the PRC's military build-up aimed at Taiwan; (3) improvement in the PRC's export control practices; (4) an end to the proliferation by state-sponsored entities in the PRC of technology related to weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles; and (5) an end to the proliferation by state and non-state owned entities and individuals in the PRC of military equipment involving countries, such as Burma and Sudan, whose armies have played a role in human rights violations against members of ethnic and religious minorities.

action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 

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

 
Supports the U.S. embargo on the People's Republic of China (PRC). 
 
Urges the European Union (EU) to: (1) continue its ban on all arms exports to the PRC; (2) make its Code of Conduct on Arms Exports legally enforceable in all EU states; (3) more carefully regulate the end-use of military and dual-use technology; and (4) increase transparency in its arms and dual-use export control regimes. 
 
Encourages the U.S. Government to make clear that a lifting of such EU arms embargo would potentially adversely affect transatlantic defense cooperation, including future transfers of U.S. military technology, services, and equipment to EU countries.
 
Deplores the ongoing human rights abuses in the PRC.
 
Urges the United States and the EU to develop a common strategy to seek: (1) human rights improvement in the PRC; (2) an end to the PRC's military build-up aimed at Taiwan; (3) improvement in the PRC's export control practices; (4) an end to the proliferation by state-sponsored entities in the PRC of technology related to weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles; and (5) an end to the proliferation by state and non-state owned entities and individuals in the PRC of military equipment involving countries, such as Burma and Sudan, whose armies have played a role in human rights violations against members of ethnic and religious minorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3088-3090; text as passed Senate: CR S3088-3090; text of measure as introduced: CR S3070-3072)
action_date: 2005-03-17
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 S3088-3090; text as passed Senate: CR S3088-3090; text of measure as introduced: CR S3070-3072)
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate