III 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. RES. 706 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 13, 2022 Mr. Hagerty (for himself, Mr. Cardin , Mr. Risch , Mr. Menendez , Mr. Tillis , Mr. Van Hollen , Mr. Cruz , Mr. Leahy , Mr. Scott of Florida , Mr. Blumenthal , Ms. Lummis , Ms. Duckworth , Mr. Johnson , Mr. Coons , Mr. Moran , Mr. Durbin , Mrs. Blackburn , Mr. Kaine , Mr. Blunt , Mr. Warnock , Mr. Cramer , Mr. Hickenlooper , Ms. Ernst , Mr. Schatz , Mrs. Fischer , Mr. Markey , Mr. Romney , Mr. Kelly , Mr. Cassidy , Mr. Booker , Mr. Boozman , Mrs. Feinstein , Mr. Daines , Mr. Merkley , Mr. Rounds , Mr. Luján , Mr. Rubio , Mr. King , Mr. Toomey , Ms. Klobuchar , Mr. Hoeven , Mr. Padilla , Mr. Cotton , Mr. Bennet , Ms. Collins , Ms. Smith , Mr. Wicker , Mrs. Murray , Mr. Hawley , Mrs. Shaheen , Mr. Barrasso , Mr. Cornyn , Mr. Thune , Mr. Graham , Mrs. Capito , Mr. Shelby , Mr. Portman , Mr. Young , Mrs. Hyde-Smith , Mr. Sullivan , Mr. Crapo , Mr. Murphy , Mr. Grassley , Mr. Reed , Mr. Inhofe , Mr. Carper , Mr. Kennedy , Mr. Wyden , and Mr. Burr ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations RESOLUTION Remembering former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe.

Whereas the emergence of a prosperous and democratic Japan over the past 75 years has been one of the foundations of global stability and peace in the world; Whereas former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe was tragically assassinated on July 8, 2022, resulting in the loss of a leading statesman and tireless champion of democratic values around the world; Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020, while leaving an indelible mark on the politics, economy, and society of Japan, as well as prosperity and security around the world; Whereas, in August 2007, at the Parliament of the Republic of India, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered a historic speech entitled The Confluence of the Two Seas , which inspired the vision of the free and open Indo-Pacific; Whereas, in December 2012, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched the concept of the democratic security diamond—the precursor to the modern-day Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—in which he envisaged a strategy under which the United States, Australia, India, and Japan would form a diamond to safeguard the maritime commons stretching from the Indian Ocean region to the Western Pacific; Whereas, in April 2015, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made the first address by a Japanese leader to a joint session of Congress where he called the relationship between the United States and Japan an alliance of hope and offered his eternal condolences to the souls of all American people that were lost during World War II ; Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advanced the United States-Japan alliance through multiple Presidential administrations of the United States by strengthening diplomatic, military, and economic cooperation, including the Trade Agreement between the United States of America and Japan, done at Washington October 7, 2019; Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tirelessly sought to resolve the issue of Japanese citizens abducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and continuously sought the safe return of such citizens to Japan; Whereas former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe relentlessly pursued the denuclearization of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by leading a global campaign to cut off revenue to the unlawful nuclear weapons program the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; and Whereas the United States lost a great friend and ally with the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose leadership laid a lasting foundation for the United States and Japan to partner for decades to come in promoting freedom, prosperity, and security around the world and opposing authoritarianism and tyranny: Now, therefore, be it

That the Senate— (1) remembers former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe and his work to strengthen the alliance between the United States and Japan; and (2) extends condolences to the family of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the people of Japan.