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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Feb 24, 2000
Declares that the Senate: (1) stresses the importance of decommissioning of weapons held by paramilitaries on all sides without conditions to the success of the peace process in Northern Ireland; (2) calls upon the Irish Republican Army to make a firm commitment and offer a specific timetable as to when decommissioning of all of their arms and explosives will begin; and (3) urges the loyalist paramilitary organizations to respond to such an IRA proposal by immediately beginning the process of decommissioning all of their weapons.
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Sen. Helms, Jesse [R-NC] · R–NC
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Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S823)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S823-824)
Introduced in Senate
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