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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · May 16, 2000
Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. policy should: (1) support the restoration of democracy in Burma, including implementation of the results of the 1990 elections; (2) continue to call upon the military regime in Burma known as the State Peace and Development Council to guarantee freedoms of assembly, movement, speech, and the press for all Burmese citizens, to accept a political dialogue with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy, and ethnic leaders to advance peace, to release all detained Members elected to the 1990 parliament and other political prisoners, and to uphold the terms and conditions of all human rights and related resolutions passed by the United Nations General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights, the International Labor Organization, and the European Union; and (3) sustain current economic and political sanctions against Burma as the appropriate means of securing the restoration of democracy, human rights, and civil liberties and of supporting U.S. national security counternarcotics interests.
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Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY] · D–NY
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Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Received in the House.
Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7282-7283; text as passed Senate: CR S7283; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S7282-7283)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7282-7283; text as passed Senate: CR S7283; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S7282-7283)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 656.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Helms with an amendment and with a preamble. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Helms with an amendment and with a preamble. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4025-4026)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4026)
Introduced in Senate
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