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S.Res.69 / 109th Congress

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate about the actions of Russia regarding Georgia and Moldova.

Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2500-2501)

Official summary

Version 82 · Passed Senate without amendment · Mar 10, 2005

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

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should: (1) urge Russia to live up to its commitments at the 1999 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Summit regarding Georgia and Moldova; (2) in cooperation with its European allies, maintain diplomatic pressure to permit the OSCE Border Monitoring Operation (BMO) in Georgia to continue; and (3) if the BMO ceases to exist, seek, in cooperation with its European allies, an international presence to monitor border crossings between Georgia and the Russian republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia.

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Who introduced it

Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN] · R–IN

Committees

  • Foreign Relations Committee
1 cosponsorship records, including any withdrawals

Actions

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  1. Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2500-2501)

  2. Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S2500-2501)

  3. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2500-2501)

  4. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2500-2501)

  5. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2044-2045)

  6. Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2045)

  7. Introduced in Senate

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